SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 17 September 2025, Shift 3 · General Awareness · Question 20 of 100

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Which of the following initiatives launched in 2025 aims to combine mangrove regeneration with rural employment under the MGNREGS platform?

(a)Mission Mangrove Mitra
(b)Sagar Suraksha Yojana
(c)EcoJobs for Coasts
(d)Blue Belt Programme

Answer

Why

Correct — A. The stem needs two anchors: mangrove regeneration and MGNREGS work.

Of the four titles, only Mission Mangrove Mitra names mangroves, and the key marks it → option (a).

This rests on the title alone. No official record of a scheme by that name could be traced for this card.

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Sagar Suraksha Yojana — Names neither mangroves nor rural jobs. 'Sagar Suraksha' means sea security, and nothing in the title ties it to mangrove regeneration under MGNREGS.
(c)
EcoJobs for Coasts — Tempting, because 'jobs' echoes MGNREGS, but the title names no mangroves and no MGNREGS link. The stem needs both anchors.
(d)
Blue Belt Programme — A UK programme, not an MGNREGS one. The Blue Belt is the UK Government's marine conservation programme for UK Overseas Territories, so it cannot run on India's rural employment scheme.

Concept

The Centre's documented mangrove programme is MISHTI (Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats & Tangible Incomes).

The Union Budget 2023-24 speech announced it for mangrove plantation along the coastline and on salt pan lands, through convergence between MGNREGS, CAMPA Fund and other sources. The Environment Ministry launched it on 5 June 2023, World Environment Day.

No official record of a 2025 scheme under the exact name Mission Mangrove Mitra could be traced for this card.

MISHTI, launched in 2023, is a verified programme that also ties mangrove planting to MGNREGS. Take option (a) as the key's answer, and learn MISHTI as the programme you can verify.

Key facts

MISHTI stands for Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats & Tangible Incomes.
The Union Budget 2023-24 announced MISHTI, to be taken up through convergence between MGNREGS, CAMPA Fund and other sources.
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change launched MISHTI on 5 June 2023.
The Blue Belt Programme is the UK Government's marine conservation programme for UK Overseas Territories.

Study next

MISHTI: aim, ministry and fundingConvergence of MGNREGS with other schemesMaharashtra's Mangrove Cell

Common traps

Picking EcoJobs for Coasts because 'jobs' echoes MGNREGS: it names neither mangroves nor MGNREGS.
Assuming Blue Belt is an Indian coastal scheme: it is the UK Government's programme for its Overseas Territories.

MISHTI, a verified mangrove programme run in convergence with MGNREGS, is asked at 12 Sep 2025, 16:00, GA Q.24 and at 14 Sep 2025, 12:30, GA Q.23, which tests its CAMPA and MGNREGS funding.

Maharashtra's Mangrove Cell is asked at 12 Sep 2025, 16:00, GA Q.22.

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