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Match List-I (Rural Development Scheme) with List-II (Key Feature/Ministry): List-I: (a) PMAY-G (b) Jal Jeevan Mission (c) PMGSY (d) DAY-NRLM (Rajivika in Rajasthan) List-II: (1) All-weather rural road connectivity (2) Tap water connection to every rural household (3) Self-Help Groups and rural livelihoods (4) Pucca house for rural poor

Correct answer: (A) a-4, b-2, c-1, d-3.

PMAY-G matches pucca housing for the rural poor, Jal Jeevan Mission matches tap water connections to rural households, PMGSY matches all-weather rural road connectivity, and DAY-NRLM, implemented in Rajasthan as Rajivika, matches Self-Help Groups and rural livelihoods.

  1. (A)

    a-4, b-2, c-1, d-3

  2. (B)

    a-1, b-2, c-4, d-3

  3. (C)

    a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2

  4. (D)

    a-3, b-2, c-1, d-4

Explanation

Option A is the only correct sequence because each scheme is being matched to its defining rural-development function. The Ministry of Rural Development identifies PMAY-G with rural housing and says it aims to provide a pucca house with basic amenities to eligible rural households. The same official review places PMGSY under rural connectivity and describes it as providing a single all-weather road to eligible unconnected habitations. It also places DAY-NRLM under rural livelihoods, with rural poor households mobilised into Self-Help Groups and supported for diversified livelihoods. The remaining match, from the question itself, is Jal Jeevan Mission with tap water connections to rural households.

Why the other options are wrong

  • (B) It gives road connectivity to PMAY-G and pucca housing to PMGSY, reversing the housing scheme and the rural roads scheme.
  • (C) It shifts Jal Jeevan Mission to Self-Help Groups and DAY-NRLM/Rajivika to tap water, although the former is tied to rural tap connections and the latter to livelihoods through SHGs.
  • (D) It treats PMAY-G as an SHG-livelihood scheme and DAY-NRLM/Rajivika as a housing scheme, while their actual domains are pucca housing and rural livelihoods respectively.

Concept

This tests the RAS syllabus area of centrally sponsored rural-development schemes and their administrative objectives. It recurs because Rajasthan implementation questions often ask aspirants to distinguish housing, water, road-connectivity and livelihood programmes without confusing their similar acronyms.

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