RAS question
How many Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) are functional in Rajasthan?
Correct answer: (B) 342.
Rajasthan had 342 functional Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) in academic session 2024-25.
Explanation
Rajasthan's Economic Review 2024-25 records under gender equality and girls' education that, in academic session 2024-25, 342 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) were functional, with enrolment of 43,543 girls. This makes 342 the count of operational KGBV institutions, not a budget target, school-category total, or block count. KGBVs prioritize enrolment for never-enrolled and dropout girls as part of the programme logic. So the figure belongs specifically to residential schooling for girls within Rajasthan's education and gender-inclusion measures. Options that cite PM SHRI schools or Educationally Backward Blocks come from different education indicators and do not give the functional KGBV count.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) 402 refers to PM SHRI schools in phase 1, so it is a different school initiative rather than the count of functional KGBVs.
- (C) 639 is the total number of PM SHRI schools, which does not measure Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas.
- (D) 186 is the number of Educationally Backward Blocks, a block-level category and not the number of functional KGBV institutions.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan Economy's social-sector data, especially education schemes for girls and official Economic Review figures. Such questions recur in RAS because welfare schemes are often asked through exact, source-based numbers.