RAS question
National Bamboo Mission was restructured under:
Correct answer: (B) NMSA (National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture).
The National Bamboo Mission was restructured in 2018 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme under the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture.
Explanation
The National Bamboo Mission belongs under the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture because the PIB release on the 2018 Cabinet approval explicitly places the restructured NBM there. The restructuring was not a cosmetic relabelling: the scheme was meant to address the bamboo sector's complete value chain by linking producers with industry. The exam-relevant policy backdrop is that bamboo had been removed from the definition of "tree" under the Indian Forest Act through the 2017 amendment, making cultivation easier. Together, these points explain why NMSA is the right parent framework: the mission was designed around bamboo cultivation, value addition and marketing, not around employment guarantee, manufacturing branding or start-up promotion.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) MGNREGA is a separate scheme, while the PIB approval specifically places the restructured National Bamboo Mission under the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture.
- (C) Make in India is not the parent scheme named in the 2018 restructuring; the PIB approval links NBM to NMSA and to bamboo value-chain development.
- (D) Startup India is not the scheme under which NBM was restructured, and the policy context concerns bamboo cultivation, value addition and marketing rather than start-up promotion.
Concept
This tests Indian Economy through the parent-scheme mapping of a sectoral mission. It recurs in RAS because agriculture and allied-sector schemes are often asked through their restructuring year, policy objective and administrative umbrella.