UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Union Home and Cooperation Minister Shri Amit Shah addressed the 5th Foundation Day celebration of the Ministry of Cooperation

Q1. The Ministry of Cooperation, whose Foundation Day was celebrated at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi on 6 July 2026, completed how many years of its existence on that day?

  • A. Four years
  • B. Five years
  • C. Six years
  • D. Seven years

Q2. Which one of the following was released by the Union Cooperation Minister at the 5th Foundation Day ceremony as the flagship governance-reform document for the dairy cooperative segment?

  • A. Sahakar CBS core banking platform
  • B. Model bye-laws for dairy cooperative societies
  • C. National Cooperative Database (NCD) 3.0
  • D. Sahakar Sahyogi AI platform

Q3. At the 5th Foundation Day event, exactly how many grain storage godowns were, in total, either transferred, inaugurated or had their foundation stones laid?

  • A. 232
  • B. 135
  • C. 85
  • D. 47

Q4. The Ministry of Cooperation functions under the charge of which Union Cabinet Minister, who concurrently holds the Home portfolio?

  • A. Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan
  • B. Shri Amit Shah
  • C. Shri Rajnath Singh
  • D. Shri Piyush Goyal

Q5. Which of the following are correctly identified as national multi-state cooperative societies created under the aegis of the Ministry of Cooperation?

  1. National Cooperative Exports Limited (NCEL)
  2. National Cooperative Organics Limited (NCOL)
  3. Bharatiya Beej Sahkari Samiti Limited (BBSSL)
  4. National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
  • A. 1 and 3 only
  • B. 1, 2 and 3
  • C. 2 and 4 only
  • D. 1, 2 and 4

Q6. Consider the following institution–mandate pairs relating to national cooperative bodies. Which one of the pairs is NOT correctly matched?

  1. BBSSL — production and certification of foundation and certified seeds under the 'Bharat Beej' brand
  2. NCOL — aggregation and marketing of organic produce under the 'Bharat Organics' brand
  3. NCEL — umbrella body facilitating exports of cooperative-sector produce
  4. Tribhuvan Sahkari University — apex regulatory body for cooperative banking
  • A. 1 only
  • B. 2 only
  • C. 3 only
  • D. 4 only

Q7. The model bye-laws for dairy cooperative societies released at the 5th Foundation Day are primarily intended to function as which one of the following?

  • A. A binding central statute that overrides the respective State Cooperative Societies Acts
  • B. A standard template that dairy cooperatives may adopt within the framework of their respective State Cooperative Societies Acts
  • C. A central licensing regime for private dairy processors
  • D. Bye-laws applicable exclusively to multi-state dairy cooperative societies

Q8. In the last five years, Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) have been enabled to diversify their functions. Which of the following are correctly identified as such diversified roles?

  1. Common Service Centres
  2. Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samriddhi Kendras
  3. Jan Aushadhi Kendras
  4. Branches of Regional Rural Banks
  • A. 1 and 2 only
  • B. 1, 2 and 3
  • C. 2, 3 and 4
  • D. 1 and 4 only