UPSC Prelims 2017 · Question 39 of 99

UPSC Prelims 2017 question on Unnat Bharat Abhiyan

What is the aim of the programme ‘Unnat Bharat Abhiyan’?

  1. Achieving 100% literacy by promoting collaboration between voluntary organizations and government’s education system and local communities.
  2. Connecting institutions of higher education with local communities to address development challenges through appropriate technologies.
  3. Strengthening India’s scientific research institutions in order to make India a scientific and technological power.
  4. 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.
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Answer: B. Connecting institutions of higher education with local communities to address development challenges through appropriate technologies.

Verdict

The answer is connecting institutions of higher education with local communities to address development challenges through appropriate technologies.

Analysis

Unnat Bharat Abhiyan links institutions of higher education, including the Indian Institutes of Technology, the National Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, with local rural communities, so that academic expertise is applied to village level development problems through appropriate technology. The literacy option describes an adult education programme, the research strengthening option describes science policy, and the fourth option describes a general human capital scheme, none of which captures the institution to village linkage.

Source

Press reporting on the programme.

How to crack it

Decode the name, since unnat means advanced or uplifted and Bharat here signals rural India, so the programme is about raising rural capability. Then look for the option that names a mechanism rather than an aspiration, because scheme objectives are usually written as a specific linkage. Here the mechanism is higher education institutions adopting villages, which is both distinctive and memorable, and mechanism is what distinguishes the correct option from three plausible aspirations.

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