Which of the following pairs of Government Scheme and its associated Nodal Ministry/Department is correctly matched? 1. PM-AASHA – Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution 2. e-NAM – Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare 3. PMKSY – Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation 4. RODTEP – Ministry of Finance
- (a)1 and 2 only
- (b)2 and 3 only
- (c)2 only
- (d)1, 2 and 4
Answer
Why
Correct — C. Only pair 2 holds. e-NAM, the National Agriculture Market launched in April 2016, is a Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare platform.
Pair 1 fails: PM-AASHA is also an Agriculture ministry scheme, not a Consumer Affairs one.
Pair 3 fails: PMKSY is implemented jointly by the Agriculture, Water Resources and Rural Development ministries.
Pair 4 fails: RoDTEP is notified by the Department of Commerce; Finance's Department of Revenue administers it.
Why the others are wrong
- (a)1 and 2 only — Pair 1 is wrong. The Union Cabinet approved PM-AASHA in 2018 as a Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare scheme. The Consumer Affairs ministry's food department runs its own wheat and paddy procurement.
- (b)2 and 3 only — Pair 3 is wrong. The Water Resources ministry runs PMKSY's AIBP and Har Khet Ko Pani components, but the Agriculture and Rural Development ministries run the rest of the scheme.
- (d)1, 2 and 4 — Pairs 1 and 4 are wrong. PM-AASHA belongs to Agriculture, not Consumer Affairs, and RoDTEP is notified by the Department of Commerce, with Finance only administering it.
Concept
A nodal ministry is the lead ministry responsible for a scheme, even when others deliver parts of it. That is where pairs 3 and 4 fall down.
PM-AASHA is an umbrella scheme to assure farmers the MSP, through the Price Support Scheme, the Price Deficiency Payment Scheme and a private-procurement pilot.
e-NAM is an online trading platform linking APMC mandis. The Small Farmers' Agribusiness Consortium, a society under the Agriculture department, runs it.
Pair 4 is the closest call. The Foreign Trade Policy, as amended on 17 August 2021, says RoDTEP is "notified by Department of Commerce and administered by Department of Revenue". The key treats the notifying department, Commerce, as the nodal one.
PMKSY is also the abbreviation of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana, a Ministry of Food Processing Industries scheme. On neither reading does the Water Resources ministry own the scheme.
Key facts
- The Union Cabinet approved PM-AASHA (Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay SanraksHan Abhiyan), a Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare scheme, on 12 September 2018.
- e-NAM, the National Agriculture Market, was launched on 14 April 2016 under the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare.
- PMKSY (Krishi Sinchayee) was approved on 1 July 2015 and is implemented by the Ministries of Agriculture, Water Resources and Rural Development.
- The Foreign Trade Policy, as amended on 17 August 2021, says RoDTEP is notified by the Department of Commerce and administered by the Department of Revenue.
Study next
Common traps
- Pairing RoDTEP with Finance because Finance's Department of Revenue administers it — the scheme is notified by the Department of Commerce.
- Pairing PM-AASHA with Consumer Affairs because that ministry's food department procures wheat and paddy — PM-AASHA itself is an Agriculture ministry scheme.
PMKSY is also asked by its slogan at 15 Sep 2025, 12:30, GA Q.18, which wants the scheme behind "Har Khet Ko Pani".
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