Government Schemes and Policies Questions and Answers

Answer: B

The chairman was K. Kasturirangan.

The Ministry of Human Resource Development set up the Committee for Drafting the National Education Policy in 2017 under Dr K. Kasturirangan, the space scientist and former chairman of ISRO. Its draft, the Draft National Education Policy 2019, was the basis of the National Education Policy approved in 2020.

The other three names are also former chairmen of ISRO, which is what makes them plausible distractors: K. Radhakrishnan, A. S. Kiran Kumar and K. Sivan headed the space agency, but none of them chaired the drafting committee.

Answer: C

The main objective of Make in India is to encourage manufacturing in India.

Launched by the Government of India in September 2014, the initiative aims to make India a global manufacturing hub by attracting domestic and foreign investment, easing the conditions for doing business and building infrastructure, so as to create jobs and raise manufacturing's share of the economy.

Higher farm output, foreign trade and tourism may benefit indirectly, but none of them is the programme's central aim, which its name states: making goods in India.

Answer: A

The programme is the Skill India Mission.

Launched on 15 July 2015, World Youth Skills Day, the Skill India Mission aims to train young people in skills that make them employable, through schemes such as the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana.

The National Youth Policy is a policy framework, not a skill development programme. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, launched in 2014, is a sanitation and cleanliness campaign. Since Skill India fits, 'None of these' is wrong.