"The Narendra Modi led government has its task cut out. It will need to focus on agriculture technologies that can boost agricultural productivity, create value added farm products and tap "farm to fork opportunities" to ensure better realization for farmers. It will also need to create millions of micro entrepreneurs and thousands of economic clusters in rural India, besides investing in rural roads, rural electricity, irrigation networks and national cold chain grids.

Based on the following case study answer the questions below :

In order to improve the rural structure the government of India introduced a new scheme called Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana in the year :

Oct. 2014

The correct answer is option (2) : Oct. 2014

In October, 2014, The Government of India introduced a new scheme called Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY). Under this scheme, Members of India's Parliament need to identify and develop one village from their constituencies. To begin with, MPs can develop one village as a model village by 2016, and two more by 2019, covering over 2,500 villages in India. According to the scheme, the village can have a population of 3,000-5,000 in the plains and 1,000-3,000 in the hills and should not be MPs' own or their spouse's village. MPs are expected to facilitate a village development plan, motivate villagers to take up activities and built infrastructure in the areas of health, nutrition and education.