RAS question
How many adolescent girls/women receive free sanitary napkins under Kalibai Bheel Udaan Yojana?
Correct answer: (A) About 1.22 crore.
Under the Kalibai Bheel Udaan Yojana, about 1.22 crore adolescent girls and women receive free sanitary napkins every month.
Explanation
The Kalibai Bheel Udaan Yojana provides free sanitary napkins to women and girls aged 10 to 45 years in Rajasthan. The official Economic Review says Rajasthan Medical Services Corporation and Rajeevika procure the sanitary napkins and supply them to institutions such as Anganwadi centres and schools. It also states that free sanitary napkins are being provided to about 1.22 crore adolescent girls and women every month. That makes option A the precise figure asked in the question. The other options inflate or reduce the beneficiary count and do not match the official number cited for the scheme.
Why the other options are wrong
- (B) About 1.50 crore overstates the official beneficiary count, which is about 1.22 crore adolescent girls and women every month.
- (C) About 1 crore understates the official figure given for the scheme, which is about 1.22 crore beneficiaries every month.
- (D) About 80 lakh is too low because the cited Economic Review records about 1.22 crore adolescent girls and women receiving free sanitary napkins every month.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan welfare schemes, especially women and adolescent health interventions under the state economy and social sector syllabus. Such schemes recur in RAS because questions often ask the target group, benefit, and official scale of flagship state programmes.