RAS question
How is each PMDDKY district supported for technical expertise?
Correct answer: (A) Each district partnered with an agricultural university.
Each PMDDKY district is paired with a Central or State Agricultural University as its technical knowledge partner.
Explanation
PMDDKY supports district-level implementation by linking each district with a Central or State Agricultural University. This partnership provides technical expertise, research guidance, and capacity building. The Press Information Bureau backgrounder supports the same point under institutional and knowledge support: agricultural universities are not incidental partners, but the technical knowledge partners for districts. This matters because PMDDKY is designed around locally grounded and scientifically informed district plans, so technical support is built into the scheme through agricultural universities rather than through a separate private or IIT-led arrangement.
Why the other options are wrong
- (B) The Press Information Bureau backgrounder names Central or State Agricultural Universities as the technical knowledge partners, not IITs.
- (C) Private companies are not identified by the Press Information Bureau as the mechanism for district-level technical expertise.
- (D) PMDDKY does have a technical support system, since each district is paired with a Central or State Agricultural University.
Concept
This tests institutional design in agricultural schemes: who provides technical and knowledge support at the district level. RAS often asks such details because implementation architecture decides how centrally announced schemes work on the ground.