RAS question
The Mukhyamantri Nishulik Nirogi Rajasthan Yojana benefited how many patients up to December 2024?
Correct answer: (B) 14.93 crore patients.
The Mukhyamantri Nishulk Nirogi Rajasthan Yojana benefited 14.93 crore patients up to December 2024.
Explanation
The figure to remember is 14.93 crore patients. Rajasthan's Economic Review 2024-25 places this under the Mukhyamantri Nishulk Nirogi Rajasthan Yojana, a free healthcare initiative for citizens in the state. The review says indoor and outdoor patients at medical colleges, district hospitals, community health centres, primary health centres, sub-health centres and Ayushman Arogya Mandirs receive essential medicines and check-up facilities at no cost. For 2024-25 up to December 2024, it records 14.93 crore beneficiaries and an expenditure of ₹1,221.76 crore on medicine. That combination of patient count and expenditure is why option B is the only match.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) 5 crore is far below the Economic Review figure of 14.93 crore patients benefited up to December 2024.
- (C) 20 crore overstates the official count; the cited review records 14.93 crore patients, not 20 crore.
- (D) 10 crore does not match the official 2024-25 up-to-December figure of 14.93 crore patients.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan economy and social-sector schemes, especially health-service delivery and welfare expenditure. RAS often asks such current state-scheme figures because they link budgetary spending with measurable beneficiary coverage.