Which of the following is a key focus area of the ‘Amrit Dharohar’ scheme launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on World Environment Day, 2023?
- (a)Development of rural infrastructure
- (b)Preservation of ancient Indian heritage sites
- (c)Promotion of organic farming
- (d)To promote values of local communities in conserving wetland ecosystem
Answer
Why
Correct — D. Amrit Dharohar is a wetlands programme, not a monuments one.
It was announced in the Union Budget 2023-24 and launched on World Environment Day, 5 June 2023, alongside MISHTI, the mangrove initiative.
The Budget set its aim as the optimal use of wetlands — enhancing biodiversity, carbon stock, eco-tourism and income for the people living around them.
Conservation is to run through local communities and their own practices, which is what option (d) states.
Why the others are wrong
- (a)Development of rural infrastructure — Rural infrastructure is not what the scheme funds. Amrit Dharohar is an environment programme built around wetland ecosystems, not a public-works line.
- (b)Preservation of ancient Indian heritage sites — The heritage in the name is natural heritage. Ancient sites and monuments are looked after under a separate ministry and separate legislation.
- (c)Promotion of organic farming — Organic farming is promoted through agriculture schemes such as the Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana. Amrit Dharohar's target is wetlands, their biodiversity and their carbon stock.
Concept
Wetlands are the link between land and water — marshes, lakes, floodplains, mangroves — and they do three jobs an examiner cares about: they hold biodiversity, they store carbon, and they support local livelihoods.
Amrit Dharohar's design follows from that. Rather than fencing wetlands off, it treats the communities around them as the conservers, and builds eco-tourism and income around the site.
That community-first framing is the phrase to recognise in the options.
Two schemes were launched together on that World Environment Day, and they are easy to swap. Amrit Dharohar is for wetlands. MISHTI is for mangroves along the coastline.
Key facts
- Amrit Dharohar was announced in the Union Budget 2023-24 and is aimed at the optimal use of wetlands.
- It was launched on World Environment Day, 5 June 2023.
- MISHTI, launched the same day, is a mangrove initiative for shoreline habitats.
- The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, adopted at Ramsar in Iran in 1971, is the treaty under which India's wetlands are listed internationally.
Study next
Common traps
- Reading Dharohar as built heritage and marking the monuments option
- Attaching MISHTI to wetlands in general when it is specifically a mangrove programme
SSC asks a scheme by its focus area, its launch year or the government that runs it, and prints three other plausible sectors beside it.
The One Station One Product scheme is asked at 11 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.14, and the Nand Baba Milk Mission at 26 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q.11.
Related PYQs
No directly related past PYQ was found.