Consider the following statements : The nation-wide 'Soil Health Card Scheme' aims at 1. expanding the cultivable area under irrigation. 2. enabling the banks to assess the quantum of loans to be granted to farmers on the basis of soil quality. 3. checking the overuse of fertilizers in farmlands. Which of the above statements is/are correct ?

Defines the Soil Health Card (SHC) as a 2015 scheme to provide farmers with information on soil nutrient status (12 parameters).

A student can use this to infer SHC's primary focus is soil nutrient management (not infrastructure like irrigation); therefore expansion of irrigated area would be an indirect/secondary objective at best.

Presents an exam-style list that includes 'expanding the cultivable area under irrigation' as one of several claimed aims of the SHC.

A student can treat this as evidence that the expansion- irrigation claim is commonly questioned and should be checked against scheme descriptions.

Repeats the same multi-statement question listing expansion of irrigated area as a purported aim of the national SHC.

Use this repeated questioning to suspect that expansion of irrigation is likely not a core SHC aim and requires corroboration from scheme objectives.

Notes that irrigation (e.g., canal water) can cause soil problems like secondary salinization, affecting soil quality.

A student could argue SHC's soil-quality focus might relate to monitoring irrigation-induced soil issues, but that is distinct from promoting expansion of irrigated area.

Provides factual context on irrigation coverage and types in India (Net Irrigated Area statistics and sources).

A student can combine SHC's nutrient-management focus with national irrigation data to judge that increasing irrigated area is typically a separate infrastructure/irrigation policy, not a soil-testing scheme's direct objective.