Sagarmala Programme MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

Statement 1 correctly states Sagarmala's vision of lowering logistics costs for domestic and export-import trade with minimal infrastructure investment. Statement 2 is also correct: the Prime Minister released the National Perspective Plan on 14 April 2016 at the Maritime India Summit. Therefore, both statements are correct.

The Union Cabinet first approved the Sagarmala concept on 25 March 2015. The Prime Minister then released the National Perspective Plan at the Maritime India Summit on 14 April 2016. Sagarmala Development Company Limited was incorporated later, on 31 August 2016. Hence the chronological order is 1-2-3.

The Union Cabinet approved the concept of Sagarmala on 25 March 2015. The later date, 14 April 2016, belongs to the release of its National Perspective Plan at the Maritime India Summit, so option A alone identifies the approval date.

Sagarmala is an umbrella infrastructure programme that promotes port-led development by modernising ports, strengthening hinterland connectivity, supporting port-proximate industry and improving coastal and inland-water transport. Its benefits arise through projects and lower logistics costs, not through universal household cash payments; therefore option B is correct.

Coastal community development under Sagarmala covers project-based measures such as fisheries-related infrastructure, maritime tourism and skill development. It does not promise a universal cash allowance to every coastal resident. The other pairs correctly describe port modernisation, connectivity and port-led industrialisation, making option C the incorrectly matched pair.