RAS question
Rajasthan State Warehousing Corporation provides:
Correct answer: (C) Storage facilities for agricultural produce.
Rajasthan State Warehousing Corporation provides scientific storage facilities for agricultural produce, including food grains, fertilisers and other commodities.
Explanation
Rajasthan State Warehousing Corporation is a State Warehousing Corporation, so its core function is warehousing, not banking, housing or general transport. The Warehousing Corporations Act, 1962 allows a State Warehousing Corporation to acquire and build godowns and warehouses within the State and to run warehouses for agricultural produce, seeds, manures, fertilisers, agricultural implements and notified commodities. RSWC provides scientific storage facilities across Rajasthan for food grains, fertilisers and other commodities. Transport appears in the Act only as a facility connected with movement to and from warehouses; the service being tested here is storage of agricultural produce.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Banking is not part of the State Warehousing Corporation functions, which centre on warehouses, storage and connected commodity handling.
- (B) Housing confuses residential accommodation with warehousing; the Act refers to godowns and warehouses for agricultural produce and related commodities.
- (D) Transport is only a connected facility to move specified commodities to and from warehouses, while the principal service asked here is storage.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan economy institutions linked to agricultural marketing and post-harvest infrastructure. It recurs in RAS because warehousing, food grain handling and state corporations are standard factual areas in economy and agriculture questions.