Government Welfare Schemes — Which Ministry, Which Year, and Exactly Who Gets What

Welfare schemes are the cheapest marks in a general studies paper. There is nothing to derive and nothing to reason out — a scheme either began in 2015 or it did not, and it either sits under the Ministry of Rural Development or it does not.

Students still lose these marks, and always the same way. They revise scheme names and the paper asks for an attribute: the launch year, the implementing ministry, the exact entitlement, or the town the scheme was launched from.

Fix the habit now. For every scheme store four things and only four — what it gives, to whom, which ministry runs it, and the year it began. Four slots, filled the same way every time, is what turns a hundred schemes into one revisable page.

SSC CGL and CHSL general awareness, RRB NTPC and Group D, BPSC TRE-4 general studies and the classroom-framed general awareness items in CTET all draw from the same short list of flagship schemes.

1. Under MGNREGA, the guarantee of 100 days of wage employment in a financial year is given to whom?

2. Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY provides hospital cover of how much per family per year?

3. PM-KISAN pays landholding farmer families how much, and in how many instalments?

4. Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, which provides LPG connections to women of poor households, is implemented by which ministry?

5. In which year was Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana launched?

6. 'Har Ghar Jal' is the slogan associated with which mission?

7. Which of the following is a Central Sector scheme, funded entirely by the Union government?

8. Which set of three schemes was launched together on the same day, 9 May 2015?