Coal Sector Gets India's First Sector-Wide CSR Framework

The correct answer is the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs. The framework launched by the Union Minister of Coal and Mines in New Delhi on 8 September 2026 was drafted by this institute and is meant to guide outcome-oriented corporate social responsibility spending for people living around coal mines. Option B, the Indian Institute of Public Administration, is a well known body for administrative studies but had no role in drafting this framework. Option C, the National Institute of Financial Management, works on financial management training for government services and is likewise not connected to it. Option D refers to the mining and engineering institution at Dhanbad, and although the subject is the coal sector, a technical institute of that kind did not author a corporate responsibility framework. The point to carry into the hall is the pairing of the coal sector framework with the corporate affairs institute, along with the fact that it is the first framework written for a single sector.

The correct answer is the Companies Act, 2013. The launch described the coal sector document as the first sector-specific corporate social responsibility framework since statutory CSR came in under that Act, which is the legal anchor of the entire CSR system for Indian companies. Option A refers to the older company law that the present Act replaced, and it did not carry the statutory corporate responsibility duty, so it is the classic trap for a candidate who remembers only the phrase Companies Act. Option C governs the grant of mineral concessions and regulation of mines, a different subject altogether. Option D deals with safety and working conditions in coal mines rather than with company spending on social causes. Learn the year with the Act, because questions on corporate social responsibility in economy and current affairs sections almost always test that single pairing.

The correct answer is congenital heart defects. Nanha Sa Dil is run by Coal India Limited with the Sri Sathya Sai Health and Education Trust, began in four districts of Jharkhand in March 2024, and has completed more than 1,500 corrective surgeries that are free for the family, including the cost of travel and hospital stay. Option A is wrong, but only because it belongs to the other scheme celebrated at the same event: the Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojana treats thalassemia and aplastic anaemia through bone marrow transplants, of which more than 1,050 are complete. Option C is wrong as childhood tuberculosis is handled through the national tuberculosis programme and not through this initiative. Option D is wrong because severe acute malnutrition is addressed through nutrition programmes and anganwadi services. Keep the two Coal India schemes and their diseases paired correctly.