Bhagwat Prasad Makwana Takes Charge as NCSK Chairperson

The correct answer is Shri Bhagwat Prasad Makwana, who took charge as Chairperson of the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis on that date, having been appointed by the Government of India a few days earlier. On assuming office he spoke of protecting the rights and dignity of safai karamcharis and of strengthening the Commission's work for their welfare and empowerment. Option B names a serving secretary in another ministry and is the kind of name that sounds official enough to tempt a hurried candidate. Option C and option D name Union ministers, and ministers are never appointed as chairpersons of such commissions, which is the reasoning a candidate should use to eliminate them immediately. For appointments questions, always attach three things to the name: the exact post, the body concerned and the date, because the same name can appear in the news again in a different role.

The correct answer is the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013. Makwana served as a member of the Central Monitoring Committee constituted under that Act before taking charge of the national commission, and this experience sits alongside his tenure in the Uttarakhand commission and his time as an Independent Director on the Board of NHPC. Option A names the earlier law of 1993 on the same subject, which is the strongest distractor because both statutes deal with manual scavenging and candidates often remember only the theme. Option C, the atrocities law of 1989, and option D, the civil rights law of 1955, are genuine statutes that protect Scheduled Caste communities, so they look plausible in a question about a leader with that background, but neither sets up the committee referred to here. Fix the year 2013 with the word rehabilitation.

The correct answer is the Safai Karamchari Commission of the Government of Uttarakhand, where he held both the office of Vice-Chairman and later that of Chairman. This is the strand of his record that connects most directly to the national post he now holds, since the state body does at the level of one state what the national commission does for the country. Options B, C and D name other states that also run welfare machinery for sanitation workers, and each is plausible precisely because such commissions are not unique to one state. The way to hold the answer is to pair the state with the person, because in appointment questions examiners frequently swap the state while keeping the rest of the description accurate. Remember alongside it that he holds a Master's degree in Economics and has worked extensively on the welfare of Scheduled Caste communities.