RAS question
Indira Rasoi Yojana provides:
Correct answer: (C) Subsidized meals at ₹8 per plate.
Indira Rasoi Yojana provided nutritious meals to poor and needy people at a subsidised rate of Rs. 8 per plate.
Explanation
Indira Rasoi Yojana is correctly matched with subsidised meals because the official Sixth State Finance Commission, Rajasthan report says the scheme provided quality nutritious food to needy people at Rs. 8 per plate. The subsidy design was direct: each meal cost Rs. 25 per plate, and the State Government bore the remaining Rs. 17. The scheme was launched on 20 August 2020 and renamed Shri Annapurna Rasoi Yojana in January 2024. For RAS purposes, the operative fact is not merely that it was a welfare scheme, but that its benefit was cooked, nutritious food at a fixed subsidised plate price.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Free housing does not match Indira Rasoi Yojana, a subsidised food scheme for needy people.
- (B) Free education is outside Indira Rasoi Yojana's benefit; the scheme provided quality nutritious food at Rs. 8 per plate.
- (D) Free medical treatment belongs to other welfare schemes such as Chiranjeevi, while Indira Rasoi Yojana provided subsidised meals.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan Economy and welfare-scheme identification: the benefit, target group, and subsidy design of a flagship state scheme. Such questions recur in RAS because schemes are often asked through their most concrete service-delivery feature.