UPSC Prelims 2017 · Question 13 of 99

UPSC Prelims 2017 question on National Career Service

Consider the following in respect of ‘National Career Service’:

1. National Career Service is an initiative of the Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India.

2. National Career Service has been launched in a Mission Mode to improve the employment opportunities to uneducated youth of the country.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

  1. 1 only
  2. 2 only
  3. Both 1 and 2
  4. Neither 1 nor 2
Show answer

Answer: B. 2 only

Verdict

The answer is 2 only. The National Career Service is a mission mode project to improve employment opportunities, but it belongs to the Ministry of Labour and Employment, not the Department of Personnel and Training.

Analysis

Statement 1 is INCORRECT. The National Career Service project was launched by the Ministry of Labour and Employment as a mission mode project for establishing quick and efficient career related services. The Department of Personnel and Training administers the civil services and has no role in it. Statement 2 is CORRECT. The project was launched in mission mode to improve employment opportunities, and its stakeholders include unemployed jobseekers, students seeking counselling, candidates seeking vocational guidance, and illiterate and underprivileged sections including blue collar workers.

Source

Press Information Bureau release and National Career Service portal material.

How to crack it

Ministry attribution is the most tested element in any scheme question, so log every scheme with its ministry the first time you meet it. Employment and skilling schemes belong to Labour and Employment or to Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, never to Personnel and Training, which handles civil service administration and recruitment rules. Reading the subject of the scheme and asking which ministry owns that subject answers these without recalling the launch.

More questions on Current Affairs

All 89 questions on Current Affairs →

← Full 2017 question paper · All International Relations questions