Match List-I with List-II and choose the correct answer using the codes given below the lists : List-I (Yojana Name) A. Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin B. Jal Jeevan Mission C. Swachh Bharat Mission – Gramin D. Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana List-II (Date of Launch) 1. May, 2016 2. October, 2014 3. August, 2019 4. November, 2016 Codes :
- (a)A-2, B-3, C-1, D-4
- (b)A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
- (c)A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
- (d)A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2
Correct — B, A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1. Take the four schemes in the order they were actually launched and the code writes itself. Swachh Bharat Mission – Gramin came first, launched on 2 OCTOBER 2014, chosen because it was Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary and sanitation was his own cause — so C goes to 2. Next came the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana on 1 MAY 2016, launched by the Prime Minister at BALLIA in Uttar Pradesh to give free LPG connections to women from poor households — so D goes to 1. The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin followed on 20 NOVEMBER 2016, launched at AGRA, again in Uttar Pradesh, as the restructured successor to the Indira Awaas Yojana — so A goes to 4. Last is the Jal Jeevan Mission, announced by the Prime Minister from the Red Fort on 15 AUGUST 2019 to provide a functional household tap connection to every rural home — so B goes to 3. Reading the letters back in order gives A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1, which is option (b). Two of these launches are worth remembering for a UPPSC paper specifically: both Ujjwala and PMAY-Gramin were launched from Uttar Pradesh soil, at Ballia and Agra respectively, which is the sort of state connection this commission likes. One honest nuance on PMAY-G: the official documents describe it as being implemented with effect from 1 April 2016, in place of the Indira Awaas Yojana, while the formal public launch was on 20 November 2016. The exam is asking for the launch, so November 2016 is what you mark.
- (a)A-2, B-3, C-1, D-4 — The most dangerous option, because it gets B right — the Jal Jeevan Mission really does belong to August 2019 — and then swaps the other three. It gives October 2014 to PMAY-Gramin, but October 2014 is Swachh Bharat's date; it gives May 2016 to Swachh Bharat, but May 2016 is Ujjwala's; and it gives November 2016 to Ujjwala, but November 2016 is PMAY-Gramin's. A candidate who anchors only on Jal Jeevan Mission and then guesses will land here.
- (c)A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4 — Every pair in this code is wrong. It dates PMAY-Gramin to May 2016 (Ujjwala's month), the Jal Jeevan Mission to October 2014 (Swachh Bharat's), Swachh Bharat to August 2019 (the Jal Jeevan Mission's) and Ujjwala to November 2016 (PMAY-Gramin's). The giveaway is the second pair: the Jal Jeevan Mission is unmistakably the most recent of the four, so any code that sends it back to 2014 can be struck out at a glance.
- (d)A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2 — Also wrong in all four pairs, and it makes the single most visible error of the set — it dates the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana to October 2014, which is Swachh Bharat's launch date and predates Ujjwala by more than eighteen months. It also sends PMAY-Gramin to August 2019 and the Jal Jeevan Mission to November 2016, exchanging the newest scheme for one three years older.
These four are the flagship 'basic services' missions of rural India, and they were rolled out in a deliberate sequence rather than at random: sanitation first, then cooking fuel, then housing, then piped drinking water. Swachh Bharat Mission – Gramin (2014) attacked open defecation through household and community toilets and behaviour change; the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (2016) put LPG connections in the names of women from poor households to displace solid biomass fuel; the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin (2016) rebuilt the rural housing programme around pucca houses with basic amenities in place of the Indira Awaas Yojana; and the Jal Jeevan Mission (2019) set out to give every rural household a functional tap connection. Together they are the standard content of both a schemes question and a governance answer on rural quality of life.
Matching a scheme to its launch year is pure recall, but you can convert it into reasoning by fixing two or three anchors and letting the rest fall into place. The strongest anchor is Swachh Bharat: 2 October, Gandhi Jayanti, 2014 — a date chosen for its symbolism and therefore hard to forget. The second is the Jal Jeevan Mission at 15 August 2019, an Independence Day announcement from the Red Fort, and clearly the most recent of the four. That leaves the two 2016 schemes, and the order within 2016 is the only thing you must actually memorise: Ujjwala in May, PMAY-Gramin in November. Once those two anchors are in place, option (c) and option (d) collapse immediately because both misplace the 2014 and 2019 dates, and the contest narrows to (a) versus (b) — which is decided by whether you know that October 2014 belongs to Swachh Bharat and not to rural housing.
- Swachh Bharat Mission – Gramin was launched on 2 October 2014, on Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary; rural India was declared open-defecation free on 2 October 2019, and Phase II of the mission moved the target to ODF Plus.
- The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana was launched on 1 May 2016 at Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, providing deposit-free LPG connections to women of poor households; Ujjwala 2.0 followed in August 2021.
- The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin was launched on 20 November 2016 at Agra, Uttar Pradesh, replacing the Indira Awaas Yojana; official documents describe it as being implemented with effect from 1 April 2016.
- The Jal Jeevan Mission was announced on 15 August 2019 from the Red Fort, with the aim of a functional household tap connection for every rural home.
- Two of the four were launched from Uttar Pradesh — Ujjwala at Ballia and PMAY-Gramin at Agra — a state hook UPPSC has reason to like.
- 2 October 2014 — Swachh Bharat Mission – Gramin (C → 2): sanitation, launched on Gandhi Jayanti
- 1 May 2016 — Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (D → 1): LPG connections for poor households, launched at Ballia, Uttar Pradesh
- 20 November 2016 — Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin (A → 4): rural housing, launched at Agra, Uttar Pradesh, replacing the Indira Awaas Yojana
- 15 August 2019 — Jal Jeevan Mission (B → 3): a functional tap connection for every rural household, announced from the Red Fort
Reading the letters back in the order the lists demand gives A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1 = option (b). Anchor on Swachh Bharat (Gandhi Jayanti 2014) and Jal Jeevan (Independence Day 2019); the only thing left to memorise is that Ujjwala came in May 2016 and PMAY-Gramin in November 2016.
- Mixing the two 2016 schemes. Ujjwala is May 2016 and PMAY-Gramin is November 2016; a code that swaps them looks plausible and is the setter's favourite bait.
- Confusing the date a scheme takes effect with the date it is launched. PMAY-Gramin is described as operating with effect from 1 April 2016 but was formally launched on 20 November 2016 — the exam wants the launch.
- Forgetting that Swachh Bharat's 2 October date is deliberate. Fix it to Gandhi Jayanti 2014 and half the matching is done before you read the options.
UPPSC asks this as a List-I / List-II match or as a 'which scheme–year pair is NOT correctly matched' item; UPSC prefers to ask what a scheme is for or which of a set was launched in a given year. Prepare each flagship scheme as a triple — launch date, launch place where it is notable, and one signature feature.
Consider the following schemes launched by the Union Government: I. Antyodaya Anna II. Gram Sadak Yojana III. Sarvapriya IV. Jawahar Gram Samriddhi Yojana. Which of these were announced in the year 2000?
- (a) I and II
- (b) II and IV
- (c) III and IV
- (d) I, II and III
Answer(a) I and II
Exactly the same skill in UPSC's own format — a set of Union schemes to be sorted by the year in which they were announced. The scheme-to-year mapping, not the scheme's content, is what carries the marks in both papers.
Assertion (A): The Central Rural Sanitation Programme was launched in 1986 to improve the quality of life of rural people in India. Reason (R): Rural sanitation is a subject in the Concurrent List in the Constitution of India.
- (a) Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
- (b) Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- (c) A is true but R is false
- (d) A is false but R is true
Answer(c) A is true but R is false
The prehistory of item C in this list: the Central Rural Sanitation Programme of 1986 is the ancestor that ran through the Total Sanitation Campaign and Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan to become Swachh Bharat Mission – Gramin in October 2014, and the same question fixes sanitation as a State List subject.
Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists : List - I (Scheme) A. P. M. Jan Arogya Abhiyan B. P. M. Vaya Vandan Yojana C. P. M. Rojgar Protsahan Yojana D. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan List - II (Launching Year) 1. 2015 2. 2018 3. 2017 4. 2014 Codes : A B C D
- (a) 2 3 1 4
- (b) 1 2 3 4
- (c) 2 3 4 1
- (d) 2 4 3 1
Answer(a) 2 3 1 4
The identical question type from the same commission — List-I of schemes against List-II of launching years, decided the same way, by anchoring the two dates you are surest of and letting the codes eliminate themselves.
Which of the following (Scheme - Year) is not correctly matched?
- (a) Rural Housing Interest Subsidy Scheme - 2017
- (b) Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana - 2014
- (c) Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission - 2015
- (d) Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gramin Kaushalya Yojana - 2014
Answer(c) Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission - 2015
The same scheme-and-year knowledge asked in the negative, as a 'not correctly matched' pair, and a reminder from that card that Cabinet approval and formal launch can fall in different years — the very nuance that surrounds PMAY-Gramin here.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana was launched in May 2016 from which town?
- (a)Agra
- (b)Ballia
- (c)Varanasi
- (d)Gorakhpur
Answer(b) Ballia, in Uttar Pradesh — the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin was the one launched from Agra, in November 2016.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin was launched as the restructured successor to which earlier programme?
- (a)Indira Awaas Yojana
- (b)Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana
- (c)Rajiv Awas Yojana
- (d)Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan
Answer(a) Indira Awaas Yojana — the rural housing programme was recast as PMAY-Gramin in 2016; Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana and Rajiv Awas Yojana were urban slum-housing schemes and Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan was a sanitation programme.