State News Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Andhra Pradesh launched the Swechha programme in October 2021, under Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. It provides free sanitary napkins to adolescent girls in government schools and junior colleges and runs awareness on menstrual hygiene to reduce the stigma.

Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Telangana have their own hygiene or health schemes but did not launch a programme under this name.

The scheme provides free sanitary napkins to girls studying in government schools and junior colleges in Andhra Pradesh.

Answer: B

The Aam Aadmi Party won the 2022 Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections with 134 seats, ending the BJP's long hold on the corporation. The BJP finished second and the Congress a distant third, so they are not the party in the question. The NCP did not win the corporation, so it is also wrong. The election was held in December 2022 for 250 wards of the corporation, in which the BJP won 104 seats and the Congress won 9.

Answer: B

Neiphiu Rio is Chief Minister of Nagaland.

Neiphiu Rio of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party was sworn in as Chief Minister of Nagaland in March 2023 for his fifth term, making him the state's longest-serving Chief Minister. He first held the office in 2003.

Meghalaya's Chief Minister at the time was Conrad Sangma, Arunachal Pradesh's Pema Khandu and Sikkim's Prem Singh Tamang.

Answer: D

The booklet was released by Delhi.

In December 2019, on the death anniversary of Dr B. R. Ambedkar, the Delhi government released a booklet on his life, teachings and contribution for students of classes 6 to 8 in its schools, so that children would learn about the architect of the Constitution and his ideas of equality.

Maharashtra, Odisha and Goa have honoured Ambedkar in other ways, but the booklet for students referred to in the question was the Delhi government's.

Answer: D

The proposed single name is Bangla.

In 2016 the West Bengal Assembly proposed three names, Bengal in English, Bangal in Hindi and Bangla in Bengali, which the Centre did not accept. In July 2018 the Assembly passed a resolution to rename the state 'Bangla' in all three languages.

Bengal and Bangal were two of the earlier three-language proposals, and 'Bengali' is the name of the language and people, not the proposed name of the state.

Answer: B

The scheme is Unnathi.

Through its order of 6 October 2018, the Karnataka government set up Unnathi (Unnati) to give end-to-end support to startups and entrepreneurs from marginalised backgrounds, in particular Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe entrepreneurs: incubation, mentoring, funding and market access.

The other names are not this scheme. The question tests recall of the specific programme name, and Abhivrudhi, Pragathi and Hosabelaku are general Kannada words for development, progress and new light that are used as plausible-sounding distractors.

Answer: A

The scheme is Mathru Poorna.

Mathru Poorna, launched by the Karnataka government on 2 October 2017, provides one full hot meal a day at anganwadi centres to pregnant and lactating women in rural areas, along with supplements, to tackle anaemia and low birth weight. Women eat the meal at the anganwadi, which also lets workers track their health.

The mid-day meal scheme feeds schoolchildren, not mothers. Udisha is a training programme for anganwadi workers under the ICDS. Since Mathru Poorna fits exactly, 'None of the above' is wrong.

Answer: C

The limit is ten percent of the child's weight.

The Karnataka government's order of May 2019 directed that a school bag should not weigh more than 10% of the child's body weight. This follows the widely used guideline that heavy bags carried daily strain children's backs and posture, and it applies to government, aided and unaided schools alike.

Five and eight percent are stricter than the order, and fifteen percent is more lenient than the guideline it adopts.

Answer: B

The year is 2022.

Rajiv Awas Yojana aimed at a slum-free India. Its preparatory phase ran from 2011 to 2013 and its implementation phase from 2013 to 2022, and Karnataka was granted the largest number of projects of any state, 42 projects covering 10 cities including Bengaluru and Mysuru. Reports on Karnataka's plan give 2022 as the target year for slum-free cities, which matches the key.

2020, 2024 and 2026 do not correspond to the RAY implementation period, which ended in 2022. The scheme itself was later superseded by the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.

Answer: C

The scheme is Jana Sevak.

Jana Sevak was launched by the Karnataka government in January 2020, first in parts of Bengaluru, to deliver government services at citizens' doorsteps. People book a service by phone, app or online, and a Jana Sevak visits their home to collect the documents and deliver certificates and cards for a small fee.

Jan Dhan is the Union government's financial inclusion scheme for bank accounts. Jana Shakti and Jana Kendra are not the name of this doorstep delivery scheme.