BharatNotes Built from the rural development chapter, whose figures come from chapter 10 of the Government of Rajasthan's Economic Review 2025-26, read directly.
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Two devolution formulas govern money reaching a Gram Panchayat, and merging them is the single commonest error in this topic. The Fifteenth Finance Commission grant is central and splits 40 untied to 60 tied. The Sixth State Finance Commission grant is the state's own devolution, 7 per cent of its own net tax revenue, split 55:40:3:2 by purpose. They share the 5:20:75 tier ratio and nothing else.
Work in this order: Sections A and B, because the formulas carry most of the marks; then MGNREGS, where a nine-month figure is routinely read as a year.
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| Tag | What it tests | If you keep missing these |
|---|---|---|
| Type A · which grant | A Fifteenth Finance Commission rule offered as a State Finance Commission one | Central grant splits 40:60; state grant splits 55:40:3:2 |
| Type B · part-year | A nine-month figure read as a full year | The 100-day count is the figure most distorted by this |
| Type C · sanctioned vs built | Approvals or targets offered as completions | Housing schemes print all three numbers |
| Type D · stale count | The pre-2023 district or tier count | Zila Parishads are 41, not 33 |
| Recall / Concept | No trap — the figure, or the reasoning behind it | Ordinary revision |
Section A — The three tiers and the Sixth SFC (Q1–10)
1. The number of Gram Panchayats in Rajasthan is — Recall
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(c) 14,403.
Why not the others: (a) 11,173 is the number of Gram Panchayat Development Plans uploaded for 2025-26, and Gram Panchayat totals in the 11,000s in circulating notes are almost certainly this figure misread; (b) 457 is the number of Panchayat Samitis; (d) 43,965 is the number of villages electrified.
2. The number of Zila Parishads in Rajasthan is — Type D · stale count
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(b) 41.
Why not the others: (a) 33 is the pre-2023 count and is now wrong, though it survives widely in notes; (c) 31 is the number of District Panchayat Development Plans uploaded; (d) 50 was the interim district count before the number settled at 41. The Zila Parishad figure is one of the few institutional counts already on the current map.
3. The Gram Sabha is — Concept
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(d).
Why not the others: (a) there are three elected tiers and the Gram Sabha is not one of them; (b) it is the whole electorate, not a committee; (c) that is the Panchayat Samiti. The three tiers are elected; the Gram Sabha is the assembly that holds the lowest of them to account, which is why it carries the social audit function.
4. Under the Sixth State Finance Commission, what share of the state's own net tax revenue goes to local bodies? — Type A · which grant
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(b) 7 per cent.
Why not the others: (a) 5 per cent is the Zila Parishads' share within the rural allocation; (c) 40 per cent is either the untied share of the Fifteenth FC grant or the priority-scheme share of the SFC grant, depending which formula is meant; (d) 26.8 per cent is the urban local bodies' share of the 7 per cent.
5. That 7 per cent is divided between rural and urban bodies in the ratio — Recall
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(a).
Why not the others: (b) reverses it; (c) 75 is the Gram Panchayats' share within the rural allocation, a different number in the same formula; (d) 60:40 is the centre-state sharing ratio of several centrally sponsored schemes. Distribution rests on the 2011 Census with district-wise weightage.
6. Within the Panchayati Raj share, the three tiers receive — Recall
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(c) 5:20:75.
Why not the others: (a) inverts the top and bottom tiers, which is the designed error; (d) swaps the two upper tiers; (b) is not the formula. The same 5:20:75 ratio governs the Fifteenth Finance Commission grant too, which is the one thing the two formulas share.
7. Under the Sixth SFC's accepted recommendations, what share of a Panchayati Raj body's grant is an incentive tied to raising its own income? — Recall
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(a) 3 per cent.
Why not the others: (b) 55 per cent is for basic and development works, (d) 40 per cent for national or state priority schemes and (c) 2 per cent for creating gender-friendly places. The four shares sum to 100, and the 3 per cent is the only performance-linked element in the formula.
8. Which share under the Sixth SFC is for creating gender-friendly places? — Recall
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(c) 2 per cent.
Why not the others: (b) 3 per cent is the own-income incentive and the two are easily swapped; (a) 5 per cent belongs to the tier split. It is small enough to be forgotten and specific enough to be asked.
9. The Sixth State Finance Commission's final report covers the period — Recall
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(a) 2020-25.
Why not the others: (b) 2021-22 to 2025-26 is the Fifteenth Finance Commission's five-year period; (c) and (d) appear nowhere. Nothing read for the parent chapter names a Seventh State Finance Commission, and that absence is recorded rather than filled.
10. The budget provision under the Sixth SFC for 2025-26 was — Type A · which grant
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(c) ₹7,000 crore.
Why not the others: (a) ₹3,087 crore is the Fifteenth Finance Commission provision; (b) ₹4,849.92 crore is the total fund available under the SFC, against which ₹2,452.21 crore was spent; (d) ₹2,489.96 crore is the amount belonging to 2024-25 transferred to PRIs.
Section B — The Fifteenth Finance Commission grant (Q11–15)
11. The Fifteenth Finance Commission grant to Panchayati Raj Institutions is split — Type A · which grant
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(b) 40 untied, 60 tied.
Why not the others: (c) reverses them, which is the commonest slip; (a) is the State Finance Commission's purpose split; (d) is the SFC's rural-urban split. Two formulas, and every wrong option here belongs to the other one.
12. The basic untied grant may not be spent on — Recall
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(d).
Why not the others: (a), (b) and (c) are all expressly permitted, along with primary and upper primary schools, health sub-centres, cooperative seed and fertiliser storage, parks and sports grounds. The prohibition on establishment costs is the examinable part of the untied grant.
13. Of the basic tied grant, the split is — Recall
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(a) an even split.
Why not the others: (b) and (c) invent ratios; (d) contradicts the word "tied". The grant itself is released in two instalments of 50 per cent each, which is a separate 50 that can be confused with this one.
14. The Fifteenth Finance Commission's period runs — Recall
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(b) 2021-22 to 2025-26, five years.
Why not the others: (a) 2020-25 is the Sixth SFC's report period; (c) and (d) are not the award period. Nothing in the parent chapter's sources names a Sixteenth Finance Commission award for Rajasthan, and that absence is recorded as an absence.
15. Under the Fifteenth Finance Commission grant in 2025-26 up to December, works completed numbered — Type A · which grant
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(b) 50,934.
Why not the others: (a) 60,799 is the works figure under the Sixth SFC grant; (c) 11,063 is under MLALAD; (d) 46,684 is the number of households completing 100 days under MGNREGS. Four "works or counts" figures from the same chapter.
Section C — MGNREGS and Amrit Sarovar (Q16–22)
16. In 2024-25, how many households completed 100 days of employment under MGNREGS in Rajasthan? — Type B · part-year
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(d) 5.11 lakh.
Why not the others: (a) 58.86 lakh is the number of households employed that year; (c) 46,684 is the 100-day count for 2025-26 up to December, a nine-month figure; (b) 42.03 lakh is households employed in the same nine months. Under a tenth of employed households reached the guarantee in the full year.
17. Why is the 2025-26 figure of 46,684 households completing 100 days not evidence of collapse? — Type B · part-year
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(c).
Why not the others: (a), (b) and (d) are inventions. Comparing a nine-month 100-day count with a full previous year is the commonest error on this table, and the parent page flags it at the table rather than only in a note.
18. Under the Chief Minister Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, a household completing 100 days under MGNREGS receives — Recall
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(a).
Why not the others: (b) applies the tribal-block figure statewide; (c) and (d) are not the scheme. The 47 scheduled tribe blocks are the detail most often dropped.
19. MGNREGS expenditure in Rajasthan in 2024-25 was — Recall
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(a) ₹9,441.01 crore, generating 3,155.57 lakh man-days.
Why not the others: (b) ₹4,819.26 crore is 2025-26 up to December; (c) ₹14,612.19 crore is the farm tariff subsidy from the infrastructure chapter; (d) ₹7,000 crore is the Sixth SFC provision.
20. Mission Amrit Sarovar sets a state target of 2,475 ponds. That figure corresponds to — Type D · stale count
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(c) 75 multiplied by 33 — the pre-2023 district count.
Why not the others: (a) would give 3,075; (b) and (d) do not produce 2,475. No revised target on the 41-district basis was located, and phase-one completions of 3,138 already exceed the stated target. This is arithmetic, not a claim the Review makes.
21. Each Amrit Sarovar is to have a minimum pondage area and holding capacity of — Recall
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(c).
Why not the others: (a) swaps acre for hectare, which multiplies the area by two and a half; (b) swaps them the other way and cuts the capacity tenfold; (d) appears nowhere. In the second phase 601 more Amrit Sarovars have been identified.
22. Man-days generated under MGNREGS in 2025-26 up to December were — Type B · part-year
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(b) 1,554.85 lakh.
Why not the others: (a) 3,155.57 lakh is the full year 2024-25; (c) borrows the Amrit Sarovar target; (d) 5.11 lakh is a household count, not man-days.
Section D — Rural housing (Q23–28)
23. Under PMAY-Gramin, financial assistance per beneficiary is — Recall
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(d).
Why not the others: (a) ₹2 lakh is the house component under PM-JANMAN; (b) ₹1.50 lakh is Lado Protsahan Yojana from the welfare chapter; (c) ₹12,000 is the toilet component alone. Beneficiaries also get up to 90 days of wages through MGNREGS.
24. Beneficiary selection under PMAY-Gramin rests on — Recall
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(b) the Socio Economic Caste Census 2011.
Why not the others: (a) the 2011 Census is used for devolution weightage, not for this selection, and the two are easily conflated; (c) Jan Aadhaar is the registration route for RGHS; (d) is a food security list. Expenditure is shared 60:40 between Centre and state.
25. In 2025-26, PMAY-Gramin figures were a target of 2,21,135, sanctions of 2,18,050 and completions of 1,08,073. Which is the number of houses actually built to December? — Type C · sanctioned vs built
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(c) 1,08,073.
Why not the others: (a) is the target, (b) the sanctions issued, and (d) collapses three distinct quantities. Sanctioned and built differ by more than a lakh, and printing only the sanction figure is the standard overstatement.
26. PM-JANMAN in Rajasthan operates for — Recall
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(a).
Why not the others: (b) the national mission aims at 75 PVTGs, but the state implementation on record is one community in one district, and generalising it is the error; (c) and (d) are not the scheme. Families with a pucca house or a government employee are excluded.
27. The PM-JANMAN package per house comprises — Recall
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(b).
Why not the others: (a) is the PMAY-G package; (c) treats a composite as one grant and loses the components, which are what get asked; (d) omits two-thirds of the additions. The three components sum to ₹2,37,290.
28. Under PM-JANMAN up to December 2025, the position was — Type C · sanctioned vs built
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(d).
Why not the others: (a) is the allocated target, (b) the approvals and (c) 17,512 the 2023-24 yearly target, with 9,159 for 2024-25. Only 11,411 houses are complete.
Section E — RAJEEVIKA and the SHG economy (Q29–36)
29. RAJEEVIKA was established in — Recall
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(a) October 2010, as an autonomous society under the Department of Rural Development.
Why not the others: (c) 1958 is the year of the Societies Registration Act under which it is registered, which is the designed near-miss; (b) April 2020 is the launch of Svamitva; (d) 2015 is when Gram Panchayat Development Plans began.
30. The National Rural Livelihood Mission is funded between Centre and state in the ratio — Recall
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(c) 60:40.
Why not the others: none of the other ratios is given for this mission. The 2025-26 provision was ₹678.35 crore, of which ₹337.55 crore was spent to December, and the same 60:40 applies to PMAY-G and Mission Vatsalya.
31. RAJEEVIKA has organised how many rural families into self-help groups? — Recall
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(d) 51.01 lakh families.
Why not the others: (a) 4.29 lakh is the number of self-help groups themselves; (c) 38,452 is the number of villages covered; (b) 32,061 is the number of Village Organizations. There are also 1,078 Cluster Level Federations.
32. Loans provided to self-help groups through banks under RAJEEVIKA amounted to — Recall
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(d) ₹10,788.96 crore, to 3,42,127 groups with bank savings accounts.
Why not the others: (a) ₹2,116.03 crore is allocated for livelihood enhancement, (b) ₹1,614.83 crore is the Community Investment Fund to 2,09,813 SHGs, and (c) ₹501.19 crore is revolving fund support to 3,18,833 SHGs. Four money figures, four different instruments.
33. Under the Rajasthan Women's Fund, loans carry — Recall
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(c).
Why not the others: (a) swaps the rate and the subsidy, which is the designed error; (b) describes Mukhyamantri Yuva Swarojgar Yojana, which is interest-free; (d) 6 per cent belongs to YUPY. ₹735 crore has gone to 1,54,861 women.
34. Under the Lakhpati Didi programme, how many women have been brought into the category? — Recall
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(a).
Why not the others: (b) treats the trained figure as the achieved one; (c) 25,000 is the Solar Didi target and achievement; (d) 796 is the number of Lakhpati Master Trainers, who trained 24,907 community resource persons.
35. Under Namo Drone Didi in Rajasthan, the position up to December 2025 was — Recall
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(d).
Why not the others: (a) 1,070 is the number of drones the central interest subvention of 3 per cent is designed to support, not the number distributed; (c) 12,500 is acres covered, not drones; (b) borrows the Solar Didi figure. Acres and drones are easy to swap here.
36. The Ujalaa Milk Producer Company Limited operates in which districts? — Recall
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(b) six districts, set up with NDDC support at ₹41.89 crore.
Why not the others: (a) Kota and Baran is the Hadauti Women Farmer Producer Company, formed at ₹17.39 crore for soyabean, mustard and coriander value chains; (c) the Van Dhan districts are a different list; (d) overstates. Ujalaa has benefited 30,033 families and purchased ₹500 crore of milk.
Section F — Sanitation, planning and the area schemes (Q37–45)
37. Rajasthan was declared Open Defecation Free by — Recall
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(a) March 2018.
Why not the others: (b) 2020-21 is when Phase II of Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) began, to sustain ODF status and move to ODF Plus; (c) is the Svamitva launch; (d) is when GPDPs began.
38. The incentive for an Individual Household Latrine under SBM-Gramin is — Recall
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(d) ₹12,000 per unit.
Why not the others: (a) ₹3 lakh is the cost of a Community Sanitary Complex, of which 30 per cent may come from the Fifteenth Finance Commission grant; (c) ₹51,000 is the Widow Marriage Gift; (b) ₹2,000 is Palanhar's annual clothing lump sum. 1.05 lakh toilets were built in 2025-26 to December.
39. Development plans uploaded for 2025-26 on e-Gram Swaraj numbered — Concept
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(b).
Why not the others: (a), (c) and (d) each give the tier count rather than the plans uploaded. Coverage falls short at every tier — 11,173 of 14,403, 346 of 457 and 31 of 41 — and that comparison is arithmetic rather than a figure the Review states.
40. Svamitva Yojana was launched on 24 April 2020 and is implemented jointly by — Recall
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(d) three bodies.
Why not the others: (a), (b) and (c) each drop or substitute a partner. The Survey of India prepares drone-based digital maps and the Gram Panchayat issues a Patta under the Rajasthan Panchayati Raj Act, 1996, with 4.13 lakh cards distributed in 2025-26 to December. 24 April is Panchayat Day.
41. Under MLALAD, what minimum share of the annual allocation must go to development of SC and ST habitations? — Recall
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(c) at least 20 per cent.
Why not the others: none of the other figures is in the scheme. A separate ceiling of up to 20 per cent applies to repair and renovation of public utilities, and the two 20s are easily confused. The allocation is ₹5 crore per assembly constituency per year.
42. Rajasthan's representation under MPLAD comprises — Recall
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(a).
Why not the others: the other three misstate one house or the other. Each MP may recommend works up to ₹5 crore a year, and may recommend works outside their own constituency or state for a "natural calamity of rare severity" up to ₹1 crore per calamity. Sanctions run through the e-Sakshi portal of MoSPI.
43. Which area development scheme covers the most villages? — Recall
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(d) Dang, with 2,192 villages across 8 districts.
Why not the others: (a) Mewat at 807 is the smallest of the three and the oldest, running since 1986-87; (b) Magra at 1,746 is in the middle; (c) attaches Dang's village count to Mewat. All three carry a budget provision of ₹100 crore for 2025-26.
44. The Magra area is defined partly by exclusion, being the hill tract not covered under — Concept
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(b) Tribal Area Development.
Why not the others: (a) and (c) are the other two area schemes, defined by terrain and by community respectively; (d) PESA is an Act the department implements, not a scheme boundary. Magra covers Beawar, Bhilwara, Pali, Chittorgarh and Rajsamand.
45. Mahatma Gandhi Jan-bhagidari Vikas Yojana provides what state share for construction of Shamashaan and Kabristaan boundary walls? — Recall
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(c) 90 per cent.
Why not the others: (a) 70 per cent applies to other community assets and (b) 80 per cent where the SC or ST population exceeds 40 per cent; (d) would leave nothing to be raised from the public, which the scheme requires. It was renamed in February 2020 from Guru Golwalkar Jan-bhagidari Vikas Yojana.
More in This Series
- Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and the State Finance Commission — the parent chapter every answer here comes from
- Economy of Rajasthan — the unit index
- Major Welfare Schemes of the Government of Rajasthan — the pensions and transfers alongside these
- Caution for Readers — the claims across this site that are genuinely unsettled
