DWBDNC Governing Body: Two New Members Sworn In

The correct answer is Shri Sudhansh Pant, Secretary of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, who holds the post of Chairman of the Board as well and therefore swore in the two new Members at the Ministry's office. Option A is wrong because the oath was administered by the Secretary in his capacity as Chairman of the Board rather than by the Union Minister heading the Ministry. Option C is wrong because the National Commission for Backward Classes is a separate constitutional body with its own mandate and has no role in constituting this Board's Governing Body. Option D is wrong because the Cabinet Secretary, as the senior-most civil servant of the Union Government, does not administer oaths to members of a welfare board of this kind. Candidates should remember the dual role: the Secretary of the Ministry is also the Chairman of the Board.

The correct answer is de-notified, nomadic and semi-nomadic communities. The Board's very name is the Development and Welfare Board for De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Communities, and the oath taken by its Members includes a pledge to do right by every person belonging to these groups in line with the Board's Terms of Reference. Option A is wrong because the welfare of Scheduled Tribes, including forest dwellers, is handled by a separate ministry and separate institutions. Option C is wrong because welfare measures for transgender persons, though also under the social justice ministry, are not the mandate of this particular board. Option D is wrong because the concerns of safai karamcharis are addressed through a different national commission. These communities are among the most mobile groups in the country, which is precisely why a dedicated board exists to carry welfare schemes to them.

The correct answer is three years from the date of joining, or until further orders, whichever is earlier. That is the term on which the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment appointed the two Members to the Governing Body of the Board. Option A understates the term and option C overstates it; neither matches the order of appointment. Option D introduces an age-based condition, which applies to several judicial and commission posts in India but is not the basis on which these Members hold office. Candidates should also note the dates on which the two took charge, with one assuming office on the seventeenth and the other on the twenty-fifth of September, while the oath itself was administered later, in the following month, at the Ministry's office in the presence of the Secretary who chairs the Board.