SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 22 September 2025, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 17 of 98

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The National Beekeeping and Honey Mission is implemented under the purview of which Union Ministry?

(a)Ministry of Finance
(b)Ministry of Rural Development
(c)Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
(d)Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Answer

Why

Correct — C. The National Beekeeping and Honey Mission (NBHM) is a Central Sector Scheme under the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, implemented through the National Bee Board (NBB).

It was announced under the Atmanirbhar Bharat banner with ₹500 crore for FY 2020-21 to 2022-23.

Agriculture & Farmers Welfare → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Ministry of Finance — Not the implementing ministry. Finance allocates money across schemes, but NBHM is run by the National Bee Board under Agriculture & Farmers Welfare.
(b)
Ministry of Rural Development — Rural Development runs rural employment and livelihood schemes such as MGNREGA. Beekeeping is an activity allied to agriculture, and NBHM sits with Agriculture & Farmers Welfare.
(d)
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare — Wrong sector. NBHM promotes scientific beekeeping and quality honey production, a farm-sector goal, so it sits with Agriculture & Farmers Welfare rather than Health.

Concept

NBHM promotes scientific beekeeping and the production of quality honey and other beehive products. Its stated goal is a 'Sweet Revolution'.

It runs through three Mini Missions: production and productivity improvement, post-harvest management of beehive products, and research and technology generation.

The National Bee Board is the implementing agency. Beekeepers, societies and firms register with it on the Madhukranti portal, which traces the source of honey.

The decoys are ministries that sound plausible for a rural product or a food. The deciding idea is the sector: beekeeping is an agriculture-allied activity.

Key facts

NBHM is a Central Sector Scheme of the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare.
The National Bee Board (NBB) is its implementing agency.
Outlay: ₹500 crore, announced under Atmanirbhar Bharat for FY 2020-21 to 2022-23.
It works through three Mini Missions, and its stated goal is a 'Sweet Revolution'.

Study next

Sweet Revolution and the other colour revolutions in Indian agricultureCentral Sector versus Centrally Sponsored SchemesAgriculture-allied activities: apiculture, sericulture, fisheries

Common traps

Choosing Rural Development because beekeepers are rural: the scheme follows the sector, not the location.
Naming the National Bee Board as the ministry: the NBB implements the mission, the ministry is Agriculture & Farmers Welfare.

Asked as a scheme-to-ministry match, where knowing the sector a scheme serves settles the ministry.

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