CAQM Inspects 25 Ring Road Stretches in Delhi for Dust

The correct answer is 25. Four flying squad teams set up by the Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas inspected twenty five road stretches of the Inner and Outer Ring Road, together covering about thirty five kilometres, all of them under the Public Works Department of Delhi. Option A and option B are simply smaller round numbers offered as distractors and match nothing in the drive. Option D is the trap in this question, because thirty five is the approximate length in kilometres that the inspected stretches added up to, not the number of stretches; a candidate who remembers only one figure will often mix the two. The drive found seventeen violations of high visible road dust and of construction and demolition waste left standing on the roads.

The correct answer is the Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas, known as CAQM, which conducted the special inspection drive in Delhi and constituted the flying squad teams for it. The drive assessed visible road dust and the effectiveness of road cleaning and sweeping along the Ring Road. Option A, the Central Pollution Control Board, and option D, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee, are pollution regulators but neither ran this drive. Option C, the National Green Tribunal, is a judicial body that hears environmental cases and does not carry out road inspections of this kind. The Commission has directed the Public Works Department of Delhi and the other agencies concerned to take corrective steps on priority, and said such drives will continue under Operation Clean Air.

The correct answer is Operation Clean Air. The Commission said that inspection drives will continue under this operation across Delhi and the National Capital Region, to see how the various air pollution abatement measures are being implemented on the ground, to identify gaps in compliance and to make the agencies concerned take timely corrective action. Option B, option C and option D are names invented as distractors and do not describe the Commission's programme. Candidates should remember that the drive on the Ring Road fell under this operation, that four flying squad teams were deployed, and that seventeen violations relating to visible road dust and construction and demolition waste were reported on roads belonging to the Public Works Department of Delhi.