RAS question
What is the total outlay of the National Scheme for ITI Upgradation approved in May 2025?
Correct answer: (B) ₹60,000 crore.
The National Scheme for ITI Upgradation approved in May 2025 has a total outlay of ₹60,000 crore.
Explanation
The approved outlay is ₹60,000 crore because the scheme is designed as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme with funding shared across three contributors: ₹30,000 crore from the Centre, ₹20,000 crore from States, and ₹10,000 crore from industry. The PIB release also frames the scheme as a Cabinet-approved push to upgrade Industrial Training Institutes and set up five National Centres of Excellence for Skilling. That funding structure matters: this is not just a Central grant figure, but the combined scheme envelope. For exam purposes, the key is to remember the total first, then the 30:20:10 split that explains how the ₹60,000 crore figure is built.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) ₹30,000 crore is only the Central share of the scheme, not the total outlay.
- (C) ₹45,000 crore does not match the PIB-stated funding split of ₹30,000 crore Central, ₹20,000 crore State, and ₹10,000 crore industry share.
- (D) ₹50,000 crore leaves out the ₹10,000 crore industry share included in the approved total outlay.
Concept
This tests government schemes and public expenditure in the Indian Economy syllabus. It recurs in RAS because scheme outlays, funding patterns, and Centre-State-industry sharing are common factual anchors in current-affairs-based economy questions.