UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — International Year of Cooperatives 2025

Q1. The year 2025 was designated as the International Year of Cooperatives by which of the following authorities?

  • A. The United Nations General Assembly, through a resolution adopted in June 2024
  • B. The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
  • C. The General Assembly of the International Cooperative Alliance
  • D. The Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC)

Q2. In India, which ministry is the nodal agency that operationalises and coordinates activities under the International Year of Cooperatives 2025?

  • A. Ministry of Cooperation
  • B. Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
  • C. Ministry of Rural Development
  • D. Ministry of Commerce and Industry

Q3. The November 2024 New Delhi event was historic as the first-ever hosting on Indian soil of the General Assembly of which apex global cooperative body?

  • A. International Cooperative Alliance
  • B. World Council of Credit Unions
  • C. Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC)
  • D. International Labour Organization's Cooperatives Unit

Q4. The Ministry of Cooperation, established in 2021, was created by carving it out of which of the following existing ministries?

  • A. Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
  • B. Ministry of Rural Development
  • C. Ministry of Finance
  • D. Ministry of Commerce and Industry

Q5. How many national-level multi-state cooperative societies has the Ministry of Cooperation set up to serve exports, organic produce and quality seeds respectively?

  • A. Two
  • B. Three
  • C. Five
  • D. Seven

Q6. The high-level committee constituted to draft the National Cooperation Policy 2025 was chaired by which of the following?

  • A. Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu
  • B. Amit Shah
  • C. Suman Bery
  • D. Shaktikanta Das

Q7. In which year was the National Cooperation Policy — the long-term framework anchored in the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047 — formally launched by the Ministry of Cooperation?

  • A. 2025
  • B. 2021
  • C. 2023
  • D. 2024

Q8. In the cooperative credit structure being computerised under the Ministry of Cooperation's scheme, what are Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS)?

  • A. The lowest, last-mile tier of the short-term cooperative credit structure, dealing directly with farmer-members at the village level
  • B. State-government-owned commercial banks that refinance rural cooperatives
  • C. Apex national institutions that provide long-term refinance to the cooperative sector
  • D. Statutory regulators that audit and license district cooperative banks

Q9. Tribhuvan Sahkari University at Anand, Gujarat, whose foundation stone was laid in July 2025, is notable as India's first:

  • A. National-level university dedicated to the cooperative sector
  • B. Agricultural university
  • C. Open university for rural learners
  • D. Deemed university in the private cooperative sector