SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 18 September 2025, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 20 of 100

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Which of the following schemes or initiatives is conceptually different from the others in terms of its sectoral focus?

(a)NSWS
(b)LEADS
(c)Gati Shakti
(d)PMFBY

Answer

Why

Correct — D. Three of the four serve industry, investment and infrastructure:

NSWS: the single portal for investor approvals and clearances, built by DPIIT with Invest India and launched on 22 September 2021
LEADS: DPIIT's assessment of how states support logistics, first produced in 2018
PM Gati Shakti: the national master plan for multimodal infrastructure, launched on 13 October 2021

PMFBY, the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, insures farmers' crops. Its sector is agriculture → option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
NSWS — NSWS lets investors identify and apply for business approvals from ministries and states on one platform. That is ease of doing business, the same side as LEADS and Gati Shakti.
(b)
LEADS — LEADS (Logistics Ease Across Different States) assesses how well states support the movement of goods, on the lines of the World Bank's Logistics Performance Index. It belongs with NSWS and Gati Shakti.
(c)
Gati Shakti — PM Gati Shakti is the national master plan coordinating roads, railways, airports, ports, mass transport, waterways and logistics infrastructure. That is infrastructure for trade and industry, like NSWS and LEADS.

Concept

Odd-one-out scheme questions turn on the sector each scheme serves, so expand the acronyms first.

NSWS is the National Single Window System and LEADS is Logistics Ease Across Different States. DPIIT, in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, is behind both. PM Gati Shakti is the national master plan for infrastructure connectivity.

PMFBY, launched in 2016, insures farmers against crop loss, so its sector is agriculture.

Key facts

PMFBY, the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, is a crop insurance scheme launched in 2016.
NSWS was launched on 22 September 2021 as a single digital platform for investor approvals and clearances.
LEADS was conceptualised by DPIIT in 2018 on the lines of the World Bank's Logistics Performance Index.
PM Gati Shakti was launched on 13 October 2021 with seven engines: roads, railways, airports, ports, mass transport, waterways and logistics infrastructure.

Study next

PMFBY premium caps for kharif, rabi and commercial cropsPM Gati Shakti National Master Plan and its seven enginesEase of doing business reforms and the National Single Window System

Common traps

Picking the acronym you know least instead of expanding all four and grouping them by sector.
Reading LEADS as a skills or leadership scheme when it stands for Logistics Ease Across Different States.

NSWS is also asked on its own at 17 Sep 2025, 12:30, GA Q.18 and 14 Sep 2025, 16:00, GA Q.20. PMFBY's premium cap for kharif crops is asked at 17 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.20.

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