What is the aim of the programme 'Unnat Bharat Abhiyan' ?
- (a) Achieving 100% literacy by promoting collaboration between voluntary organizations and government's education system and local communities.
- (b) Connecting institutions of higher education with local communities to address development challenges through appropriate technologies. ✓ UPSC's answer
- (c) Strengthening India's scientific research institutions in order to make India a scientific and technological power.
- (d) Developing human capital by allocating special funds for health care and education of rural and urban poor, and organizing skill development programmes and vocational training for them.
Why the answer is (b)
• Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (2014), coordinated by IIT Delhi under the Ministry of Education, links higher-education institutions with clusters of villages so that faculty and students study local problems and apply appropriate technologies for rural development — option (b).
• Each participating institution adopts about five villages.
• Literacy drives (a), strengthening research institutions (c) and health/skill funds (d) are other programmes.
• Hence option (b).
Why the other options are wrong
- (a) Achieving 100% literacy by promoting collaboration between voluntary organizations and…
- UBA is not a literacy programme.
- (c) Strengthening India's scientific research institutions in order to make India a…
- UBA is not about strengthening research institutions.
- (d) Developing human capital by allocating special funds for health care and education of…
- UBA does not allocate health or skill funds.
Asked in the GS Paper I of the UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Examination 2017, held on 18 June 2017. Question and answer key: Union Public Service Commission. Explanation: UPSC Answer Check.