SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 26 September 2024, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 11 of 100

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What is the cost of the ‘Nand Baba Milk Mission’ scheme launched by the Uttar Pradesh state government in 2023 to provide milk producers the facility of selling their milk at a reasonable price in villages through dairy co-operative societies?

(a)₹2,000 crore
(b)₹1,500 crore
(c)₹500 crore
(d)₹1,000 crore

Answer

Why

Correct — D. The Uttar Pradesh government put ₹1,000 crore behind the Nand Baba Milk Mission, an outlay to be spent over five years.

The purpose is the one the question repeats — to let milk producers sell their milk at a reasonable price in their own villages, through dairy co-operative societies, and so raise what they earn from it.

₹1,000 crore, in option (d), is the figure attached to the mission when it was taken up in 2023.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
₹2,000 crore — ₹2,000 crore is double the announced outlay. No figure of this size is attached to the mission.
(b)
₹1,500 crore — ₹1,500 crore is a near-miss, placed to catch a candidate who remembers over a thousand crore but not the round number.
(c)
₹500 crore — ₹500 crore is half the announced outlay and the smallest number offered. The mission was announced at ₹1,000 crore.

Concept

State-scheme questions carry three facts worth holding: the state, the year and the outlay.

For the Nand Baba Milk Mission those are Uttar Pradesh, 2023 and ₹1,000 crore over five years.

Its instrument is the village-level dairy co-operative society, and its target is the small milk producer who otherwise sells to a local trader at whatever price is offered. Uttar Pradesh is India's largest milk-producing state, which is the frame the scheme sits in.

Key facts

The Nand Baba Milk Mission is an Uttar Pradesh state scheme taken up in 2023.
Its announced outlay is ₹1,000 crore, to be spent over five years.
It works through village-level dairy co-operative societies.
Uttar Pradesh is India's largest milk-producing state.

Study next

Central dairy programmes — the National Programme for Dairy Development and the Rashtriya Gokul MissionOperation Flood and the Amul co-operative modelRecent Uttar Pradesh state schemes and their outlays

Common traps

Confusing a state scheme's outlay with a central scheme's, since both are quoted in crore
Learning the name and the state but guessing the figure, when the figure is what is asked

State schemes are asked by outlay, by launch year or by the department that runs them.

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