RAS question
How many farmers in Rajasthan were approved for input subsidy after Kharif 2025 rainfall damage?
Correct answer: (A) 7.63 lakh.
Rajasthan approved agricultural input subsidy from the State Disaster Relief Fund for 7.63 lakh farmers affected by excessive rainfall during the Kharif 2025 season.
Explanation
The figure is 7.63 lakh because the Rajasthan government’s order linked the subsidy to crop-loss assessment after excessive rainfall in the 2025 Kharif season. The cited report says crops with losses above 33 per cent were identified in 43 tehsils across six districts, covering 3,777 villages declared disaster-affected on the basis of girdawari. For these villages, around 7.63 lakh farmers were approved to receive agricultural input subsidy from the State Disaster Relief Fund. The number therefore refers to the approved beneficiary farmers under this SDRF relief decision, not to all farmers in Rajasthan or to a broader estimate of rainfall-affected cultivators.
Why the other options are wrong
- (B) 3.50 lakh understates the approved beneficiary count, because the cited order/report identifies around 7.63 lakh farmers across the disaster-affected villages.
- (C) 10 lakh is not the approved count; the SDRF input-subsidy approval in the cited report is limited to around 7.63 lakh farmers.
- (D) 5.25 lakh does not match the reported approval, which covers around 7.63 lakh farmers in 3,777 disaster-affected villages.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan economy and current affairs through agricultural disaster relief and SDRF-backed input subsidy. It recurs in RAS because state-government relief approvals are often framed as precise, source-based factual questions.