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Correct Answer: Option (D) — Neither 1 nor 2
Concept & Option Breakdown
Standard Reference Verified- Statement 1 is incorrect: The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) was established by the Government of India (Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance) as an alternative investment fund (AIF), not as an organ of NITI Aayog.
- Statement 2 is incorrect: NIIF was created with an initial targeted corpus of ₹40,000 crore (not ₹4,00,000 crore), with 49% government equity and the rest from domestic and international institutional co-investors.
Watch out for exaggerated numerical values; ₹4,00,000 crore was an order of magnitude higher than the actual ₹40,000 crore corpus.
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