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In the Union Budget of 2018–19, the Government of India announced the setting up of the Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund with a corpus of ₹_____ for developing and upgrading agricultural marketing infrastructure in 22,000 GrAMs and 585 APMCs.

1. 10,000 crores
2. 5000 crores
3. 2200 crores
4. 1000 crores

Correct answer: 10,000 crores

Solution

In the Union Budget 2018–19, the Government announced the Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund with a corpus of ₹10,000 crores. It was intended to improve agricultural marketing infrastructure in GrAMs and APMCs.

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