A key focus of Viksit Bharat Yatra is to disseminate information and facilitate access to which of the following areas?
- (a)Environmental conservation efforts
- (b)Space exploration advancements
- (c)Welfare and development schemes
- (d)Promotion of traditional arts and crafts
Correct — C, Welfare and development schemes.
The Yatra was built as an outreach and saturation drive. Vans carrying scheme information travelled to gram panchayats and urban wards so that eligible people learnt what they qualified for and could be registered on the spot.
Its content was therefore welfare and development schemes — health cover, housing, farm income support — delivered as information plus same-day enrolment rather than as a new benefit of its own.
Carry this away: it is a delivery-gap campaign, not a subject campaign. Its theme is last-mile saturation of schemes that already exist on paper.
- (a)Environmental conservation efforts — Environmental behaviour has its own national vehicle. This is the right answer to Mission LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment), which asks individuals and institutions to adopt low-impact daily habits.
The Yatra's material was organised around who is eligible for which benefit and how to register for it, which is a different kind of outreach from conservation messaging.
- (b)Space exploration advancements — India does publicise its space achievements, but through ISRO's own outreach and observances. This is the right answer to National Space Day, observed on 23 August after the Chandrayaan-3 soft landing in 2023.
A citizen at a Yatra camp was being offered scheme information, verification and enrolment at panchayat or ward level, not a science exhibition.
- (d)Promotion of traditional arts and crafts — Traditional artisans and craftspeople working with hand tools are the target of PM Vishwakarma, which offers them skill training, toolkit support and collateral-free credit.
That names one beneficiary group's sector, while the stem asks what the campaign's outreach was about — and its content was welfare and development schemes, carried to the doorstep for enrolment.
Governments run two different kinds of programme. One creates a benefit — money, a house, an LPG connection. The other closes the gap between a benefit that already exists and a citizen who never claimed it.
The second kind is an outreach or 'saturation' campaign. It carries no new entitlement of its own; it carries information, eligibility checking and on-the-spot registration to the doorstep.
A campaign's name rarely tells you which kind it is. Ask instead what its field activity actually consisted of.
'Viksit Bharat' is the framing of India as a developed country by 2047, the centenary of Independence. The Sankalp Yatra attached that long-range goal to the last mile.
The logic is simple: if flagship schemes exist but eligible households remain unenrolled, the benefit is notional. So a camp that issues an Ayushman card today counts as progress toward the 2047 frame.
That places the item at the junction of governance and current affairs — a named campaign, and the thing it was created to do.
- The Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra was flagged off on 15 November 2023 from Khunti district, Jharkhand.
- 15 November is observed as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas, the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda, whose birthplace Ulihatu lies in Khunti district.
- It began on 15 November 2023 covering tribal-majority districts and was extended to all districts of the country from January 2024.
- The campaign used information-education-communication (IEC) vans that travelled to gram panchayats and urban local bodies.
- Camps combined scheme information with on-the-spot services such as Ayushman card generation and health screening.
- Schemes publicised through it included Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY, PM Ujjwala Yojana, PM Awas Yojana and PM Kisan Samman Nidhi, among others.
- 'Viksit Bharat' refers to the stated goal of India becoming a developed country by 2047.
The Yatra's remit is the top row; the other three themes sit with other named efforts.
- A campaign's name can carry a grand goal while its actual remit is narrow; answer from the field activity, not from the aspiration in the title.
- The Yatra publicised schemes across many sectors, so a sector label alone does not settle the answer; the stem asks what was disseminated, and that is the schemes themselves.
- Treating PM Vishwakarma's artisan focus as the Yatra's focus converts one scheme's target group into the whole campaign's purpose.
- Anchor the flag-off to 15 November rather than to a district name alone — 15 November carries two Jharkhand anchors: Birsa Munda's birth anniversary (Janjatiya Gaurav Divas) and Jharkhand's Foundation Day, marking statehood in 2000.
The plainest form is a one-line identification: a named campaign in the stem, four sector labels below, and the mark turns on whether you know the programme's remit.
The same fact also sits inside multi-statement sets, where one statement fixes a yatra's launch year or launch State and you are asked how many statements hold.
The harder version pairs several schemes with purposes and asks which pairings are correct, so learn each scheme's target group alongside its name.
NDA_GAT_2024_II_Q1452024Same programme, tested from the other side. That set contains the statement that the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra was flagged off in 2023 from Jharkhand, so it checks when and where; the UKPSC stem checks what the outreach was about. It is also a four-statement counting item rather than a single-fact identification.
UPPSC_2021_PRE_GSI_Q1472021Same question shape: a named government 'yatra' in the stem, and the mark turns on identifying whom or what it serves. What differs is the object — that is a State scheme for religious travel by a specified group of people, while this is a national campaign about access to central welfare and development schemes.
ESE_GS_2021_Q482021Same underlying skill — matching a named central initiative to its real purpose, where the wrong statements attach a scheme to the wrong beneficiary group. It differs in format and content: four schemes (NISHTHA, SVANidhi, SATYABHAMA, Manodarpan) judged as statements, none of them the Yatra.
HPSC_2023_MAINS_GSII_Q42023Shares only the frame: both invoke the Viksit Bharat goal for India. That one is a Mains descriptive question on demographics and the rationale for a Population Committee, so it asks for analysis of the goal's preconditions; this one asks a single factual point about the outreach campaign that carried the name.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra was flagged off in November 2023 from a district of which State?
- (a)Odisha
- (b)Jharkhand
- (c)Chhattisgarh
- (d)Madhya Pradesh
Answerb — The flag-off was from Khunti district in Jharkhand on 15 November 2023.The date is what pins the place: 15 November is Janjatiya Gaurav Divas, the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda, and his birthplace Ulihatu lies in Khunti district.
Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh have no claim on that anniversary's birthplace link, so none of them can host the flag-off site the date was chosen for.
- practice — not a real PYQ
15 November, the day the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra was flagged off, is observed in India as:
- (a)National Unity Day
- (b)Janjatiya Gaurav Divas
- (c)Constitution Day
- (d)National Youth Day
Answerb — 15 November is Janjatiya Gaurav Divas, marking the birth anniversary of the tribal leader Birsa Munda.National Unity Day falls on 31 October, the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Constitution Day is 26 November, marking the adoption of the Constitution in 1949.
National Youth Day is 12 January, the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. Each of those three has a fixed date of its own, so none can fall on 15 November.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which of the following initiatives is aimed specifically at traditional artisans and craftspeople who work with their hands and tools?
- (a)PM SVANidhi
- (b)PM Vishwakarma
- (c)Mission LiFE
- (d)PM Ujjwala Yojana
Answerb — PM Vishwakarma is the initiative built around traditional artisans and craftspeople, offering recognition, skill training, toolkit support and collateral-free credit.PM SVANidhi provides working-capital micro-credit to street vendors, not to artisans. Mission LiFE is a behaviour-change campaign on pro-environment living.
PM Ujjwala Yojana provides LPG connections to women of poor households. Each of the three names a different target group, so only one option matches the description in the stem.