RAS question
Annapurna Rasoi / Indira Rasoi model provides:
Correct answer: (D) Subsidized nutritious meals to poor.
The Annapurna Rasoi or Indira Rasoi model provides poor and needy people with subsidised nutritious meals at ₹8 per plate through community kitchens.
Explanation
The Annapurna Rasoi or Indira Rasoi is a community-kitchen welfare model, not a transport, housing, or schooling scheme. It serves subsidised meals from permanent kitchens at multiple locations in Rajasthan's urban areas. The Rajasthan Economic Review 2024-25 states that Shri Annapurna Rasoi Yojana provides pure and nutritious food to the general public at ₹8 per plate and that the State Government contributes ₹22 per plate. It also mentions 1,000 kitchens across 240 urban local bodies. The subsidy keeps meals affordable, making the scheme a food-security and nutrition-support measure for people in need.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Free transport is wrong because the scheme serves meals through kitchens; it does not provide mobility or travel support.
- (B) Free housing is wrong because the model operates kitchens and subsidises food plates; it does not provide houses to live in.
- (C) Free education is wrong because the benefit is subsidised nutritious meals, not schooling, tuition, or educational support.
Concept
This tests welfare-scheme delivery under Economy of Rajasthan, especially how subsidised public services provide food security and social security to urban poor and other vulnerable groups. Such schemes recur in RAS because questions often ask not only the scheme name but also who receives the benefit, how it is delivered, how the government funds it, and what administrative arrangement runs the scheme.