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
Correct — D, 1 and 2 — Amethi and Sultanpur. On the Government of India's consolidated One District One Product list, both Amethi and Sultanpur carry moonj products as their district product, and Sultanpur's own district portal describes the item as 'Bandh (Moonj)': sarpat or munj grass cut from the Gomti terai and coil-woven into chairs, tables, pen stands, benas or hand fans, footmats and carry-bags. The two districts are neighbours in the same belt of eastern Awadh, which is why the same grass craft belongs to both. Sant Kabir Nagar is the odd one out — its ODOP on the same list is brassware craft, not moonj — so every option that includes item 3 fails, and the only combination left is 1 and 2.
- (a)1 and 3 — Amethi is right, but Sant Kabir Nagar is not a moonj district — the product entered against it on the government list is brassware craft. Sant Kabir Nagar sits in the Basti division of eastern Uttar Pradesh, well away from the Amethi-Sultanpur grass belt, and it works in metal rather than in reed.
- (b)2 and 3 — Sultanpur is correctly included — the district's own administration lists its ODOP as 'Bandh (Moonj)' — but Sant Kabir Nagar again spoils the pair, since its district product is brassware craft. This is the option for a candidate who knows one moonj district and then guesses the second.
- (c)Only 3 — It keeps the single district that is definitely not a moonj district and drops both that are. Sant Kabir Nagar's ODOP is brassware craft; Amethi and Sultanpur are the two districts on the list against which moonj products appear.
One District One Product is Uttar Pradesh's flagship craft-and-enterprise programme, launched on 24 January 2018 — Uttar Pradesh Diwas — and covering all 75 districts. The idea is to identify the one traditional product each district is already known for, and then concentrate the state's support on it: common facility centres, design and skill training, packaging and marketing help, and credit through a margin-money scheme. Moonj, or munj, is the tall reed grass Saccharum munja, also called sarpat, that grows on riverine and terai land; the fibre is dried, dyed and coiled around a core of grass to build baskets, boxes, mats, fans and furniture. It is a household craft, worked largely by women, and it is a good example of why the scheme was designed the way it was — the skill already existed, what it lacked was standardised quality and a route to market. The state model was influential enough that the Centre later built the same district-product logic into its own schemes through DPIIT and the Ministry of Food Processing Industries' PM Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises programme.
ODOP questions are answered by geography rather than by memory of a 75-row table. Moonj is a river-grass craft, so it belongs to districts with terai and riverbank land — Amethi and Sultanpur are adjacent districts along the Gomti in eastern Awadh, and the same craft naturally straddles them. Brassware belongs to metal-working towns, and Sant Kabir Nagar, in the Basti division, is one of them. Two named traps are worth carrying into the exam. First, aonla or amla is the ODOP of Pratapgarh, not of Amethi — the two are neighbouring districts in the same tract and are constantly swapped in question papers and in careless online lists. Second, the word 'Sultanpur' itself is a trap the commission used twice in this very paper: Q73 of the same 2025 paper offered Sultanpur National Park, which is in Gurugram district of Haryana and has nothing to do with the Uttar Pradesh district of Sultanpur.
- Uttar Pradesh launched One District One Product on 24 January 2018, on UP Diwas, covering all 75 districts
- On the Government of India's consolidated ODOP list, Amethi and Sultanpur both carry moonj products
- Sant Kabir Nagar's ODOP on the same list is brassware craft, not moonj
- Sultanpur's district portal names the product 'Bandh (Moonj)' — sarpat/munj grass worked into chairs, tables, pen stands, benas (hand fans), footmats and carry-bags
- Moonj is Saccharum munja, a tall riverine grass; the fibre is coiled around a grass core, so the craft follows terai and riverbank districts
- Aonla (amla) products are the ODOP of Pratapgarh — a neighbouring district that is routinely confused with Amethi
- The district-product idea was later carried into central policy through DPIIT and the MoFPI's PM Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises scheme
- Assigning aonla to Amethi — aonla is Pratapgarh's ODOP, and the two are neighbouring districts
- Assuming a district named in the question must be the moonj one because the craft sounds rural; Sant Kabir Nagar's product is brassware
- Confusing the Uttar Pradesh district of Sultanpur with Sultanpur National Park, which lies in Gurugram district of Haryana
UPPSC asks ODOP almost every cycle, either as a district-to-product match or, as here, as a statement code listing three districts of which one is planted; UPSC does not ask ODOP by name but tests the same craft geography through Geographical Indication and handicraft-centre 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 craft-geography skill in UPSC's format — a place is named and you must know the handicraft it stands for. The instruments differ (ODOP is a state designation, that question is a plain match of craft centres to their states), but the asset being tested is identical: knowing which locality is identified with which traditional product.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Under the One District One Product scheme of Uttar Pradesh, the district product of Sant Kabir Nagar is
- (a)Moonj products
- (b)Brassware craft
- (c)Aonla products
- (d)Terracotta
Answer(b) Brassware craft — moonj belongs to Amethi and Sultanpur, aonla to Pratapgarh, and terracotta to Gorakhpur.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The One District One Product (ODOP) programme of the Government of Uttar Pradesh was launched in which year?
- (a)2014
- (b)2016
- (c)2018
- (d)2020
Answer(c) 2018 — it was launched on 24 January 2018, Uttar Pradesh Diwas, and covers all 75 districts of the state.