RAS question
Rajasthan's major export items include:
Correct answer: (D) Gems, jewellery, textiles, and handicrafts.
Rajasthan's major export items include gems and jewellery, textiles and handicrafts.
Explanation
The official Economic Review 2025-26 identifies Engineering Goods, Gems & Jewellery, Metal, Textiles and Handicrafts as Rajasthan's top five export items, together accounting for more than 67 per cent of the State's exports. This directly supports the option that names gems, jewellery, textiles and handicrafts. The familiar geography behind that pattern is clear: Jaipur is especially associated with gems and jewellery, Bhilwara with textiles, and the State also exports marble, granite, spices and guar gum. So Rajasthan's export profile is not a single-commodity story. It is a diversified mix of manufactured, craft, mineral and agricultural products, with the listed gems-jewellery-textiles-handicrafts cluster forming a major part of it.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Agricultural products are part of Rajasthan's exports, including spices and guar gum, but the export basket also includes gems and jewellery, textiles, handicrafts, marble and granite.
- (B) Crude oil may be exported from Rajasthan, but the official export profile is much broader and the top categories include gems and jewellery, textiles and handicrafts.
- (C) Software is not the sole export item because the Economic Review lists Engineering Goods, Gems & Jewellery, Metal, Textiles and Handicrafts among the top export items.
Concept
This tests the Rajasthan economy syllabus area on export composition and regional industrial specialisations. It recurs in RAS because exports link industry, handicrafts, minerals and agriculture in the State's Economic Review.