Match List–I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists : List–I (Programme) A) National Programme For control of Blindness B) Integrated Child Development scheme C) National Leprosy Eradication Programme D) National Rural Health Mission List-II (Launch Year) 1) 1975 2) 1976 3) 2005 4) 1983

Work through each programme's launch year. The National Programme for Control of Blindness was launched in 1976, so A matches 2. The Integrated Child Development Services scheme started on 2 October 1975, so B matches 1. The National Leprosy Eradication Programme came in 1983, after the shift to multidrug therapy, so C matches 4. The National Rural Health Mission was launched in April 2005, so D matches 3. That gives A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3, which is option C.

Core concept: these are centrally sponsored health and child-welfare schemes. The timeline shows India moving from vertical disease programmes in the 1970s and 1980s to a system-wide delivery model with NRHM in 2005. For Mains, this links to health governance and the later National Health Mission, which subsumed NRHM in 2013.

• Option A pairs blindness with 1975, which is the ICDS year, not NPCB.
• Option B pairs ICDS with 1983, which belongs to leprosy.
• Option D pairs NRHM with 1975 and ICDS with 2005, so both pairings are wrong.

Trap: Candidates mix up 1975 and 1976, which are adjacent and both appear in the list. Remember ICDS is 1975 and NPCB is 1976.