On the basis of 'one district one product' programme in Uttar Pradesh, which one of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched ?
- (a)Amethi – Moonz Products
- (b)Baghpat – Wooden Toys
- (c)Gautam Buddh Nagar – Readymade Garments
- (d)Agra – Leather Products
Correct — B, Baghpat – Wooden Toys. Under Uttar Pradesh's One District One Product programme, Baghpat's notified product is HOME FURNISHING — the district's handloom units make bed sheets, table covers and runners, curtains, kitchen towels and cushion covers, and it is that cluster the scheme supports. Wooden toys belong to a different district: CHITRAKOOT, a forested Bundelkhand district with a large toy-carving artisan base, is the ODOP wooden-toys district. The other three pairs are all correctly matched — Amethi with moonj (moonz) products, Gautam Buddh Nagar with readymade garments and Agra with leather products — so (b) is the only mismatch and the answer to a 'NOT correctly matched' stem.
- (a)Amethi – Moonz Products — Correctly matched, so it cannot be the answer. Moonj (spelt 'moonz' in the paper) is coiled basketry worked from wild moonj grass, and Amethi is one of the districts for which it is the notified ODOP product — Sultanpur is the other. UPPSC set exactly this pairing again in its 2025 paper.
- (c)Gautam Buddh Nagar – Readymade Garments — Correctly matched, so it cannot be the answer. Gautam Buddh Nagar — the Noida and Greater Noida district — carries readymade garments as its ODOP product, resting on the large apparel-export cluster that grew there from the 1980s.
- (d)Agra – Leather Products — Correctly matched, so it cannot be the answer. Agra is one of India's largest footwear and leather-goods clusters and leather products is its notified ODOP item. This is the pair most candidates are sure of, which is precisely why the examiner puts it in the set.
One District One Product is a Uttar Pradesh government programme, launched in January 2018, that identifies a single traditional or dominant product for every district of the State and concentrates support on it — common facility centres, design and marketing help, margin-money and toolkit assistance to artisans, and a branded push into e-commerce and export markets. The idea is that a district's craft is already a cluster, with skills, supply chains and a labour pool in place, so public money spent on one product goes further than the same money spread thin. The model was later picked up nationally: the Centre folded an ODOP approach into the Districts as Export Hubs initiative and into the PM Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises scheme, which selects one food product per district.
A 'NOT correctly matched' stem is answered by finding one wrong pair, not by verifying four, so work from the pairs you are surest of. Agra–leather and Gautam Buddh Nagar–readymade garments are the two most widely known ODOP pairings in the State and can be cleared in seconds; that leaves Amethi–moonj and Baghpat–wooden toys as the real contest. The tell on Baghpat is its geography and its economy: it is a western-UP district in the sugarcane and handloom belt of the upper Doab, with no forest tradition, whereas toy-carving in Uttar Pradesh is a Bundelkhand craft. If you cannot recall Baghpat's product at all, ask instead which district makes wooden toys — Chitrakoot — and the mismatch reveals itself from the other end.
- Baghpat's ODOP product is home furnishing — handloom bed sheets, table covers and runners, curtains, kitchen towels and cushion covers.
- Wooden toys is the ODOP product of Chitrakoot, in the forested Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh.
- Moonj (moonz) products are the ODOP of Amethi and of Sultanpur; moonj is coiled basketry made from wild moonj grass. Sant Kabir Nagar, often confused with these, carries brassware craft instead.
- Uttar Pradesh launched One District One Product in January 2018; the approach was later adopted centrally through the Districts as Export Hubs initiative and the PM Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises scheme.
- Assuming that a district in the western-UP Doab belt makes a forest-based product. Baghpat is a handloom and sugarcane district; wood-carving in Uttar Pradesh belongs to Bundelkhand and to the Saharanpur wood-carving tradition, not to Baghpat.
- Answering a NOT-correctly-matched stem by hunting for the pair you can confirm, instead of the one you can refute. Only one pair is wrong, and three correct pairs will each look reassuring in turn.
- Mixing the moonj districts with the brassware ones — Amethi and Sultanpur carry moonj products, while Sant Kabir Nagar carries brassware craft.
This is UPPSC home ground: One District One Product is a State-government flagship and the commission has asked about it repeatedly, both as a 'which pair is NOT correctly matched' item here and as a statement-based question on which districts carry moonj in 2025. Expect the district–product table to be tested from either direction. UPSC does not ask about ODOP by name, but it tests the same underlying knowledge through handicraft-centre-to-State match-lists and through Geographical Indication questions.
Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists: List – I (Centre of Handicrafts) A. Mon B. Nalbari C. Pasighat D. Tura List – II (State) 1. Arunachal Pradesh 2. Assam 3. Meghalaya 4. Nagaland Code: A B C D
- (a) 4 2 1 3
- (b) 4 3 2 1
- (c) 1 3 4 2
- (d) 1 2 4 3
Answer(a) 4 2 1 3
The same skill without the scheme's name attached — pinning a traditional craft to the precise place that makes it. UPPSC dresses it up as One District One Product and UPSC as 'centres of handicrafts', but both reward the same district-level craft map.
Which of the following has/have been accorded 'Geographical Indication' status? 1. Banaras Brocades and Sarees 2. Rajasthani Daal-Bati-Churma 3. Tirupathi Laddu Select the correct answer using the code given below.
- (a) 1 only
- (b) 2 and 3 only
- (c) 1 and 3 only
- (d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer(c) 1 and 3 only
The legal cousin of ODOP, and it turns on a Uttar Pradesh craft. A Geographical Indication protects the product-to-place link that ODOP tries to commercialise, so the two questions draw on one body of knowledge about which district or city is known for which good.
As per the One District One Product (ODOP) scheme of Uttar Pradesh, Moonj products are associated with which of the following districts ? 1. Amethi 2. Sultanpur 3. Sant Kabir Nagar Select the correct answer from the code given below : Code :
- (a) 1 and 3
- (b) 2 and 3
- (c) Only 3
- (d) 1 and 2
Answer(d) 1 and 2
The same scheme and one of the same pairs, three years later: UPPSC confirms Amethi–moonj (adding Sultanpur) in a statement-based format. It shows the commission returning to the ODOP district table from a different angle rather than dropping it.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Under the One District One Product programme of Uttar Pradesh, wooden toys are the notified product of which district ?
- (a)Baghpat
- (b)Chitrakoot
- (c)Saharanpur
- (d)Amethi
Answer(b) Chitrakoot — the forested Bundelkhand district carries wooden toys as its ODOP product. Baghpat's product is home furnishing, Saharanpur's is wood carving (a distinct craft of carved panels and furniture) and Amethi's is moonj products.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The One District One Product (ODOP) programme was launched by the Government of Uttar Pradesh in which year ?
- (a)2014
- (b)2016
- (c)2018
- (d)2020
Answer(c) 2018 — the State launched ODOP in January 2018 to concentrate support on one traditional product per district. The approach was subsequently taken up at the national level through the Districts as Export Hubs initiative and the PMFME scheme.