Ghaziabad to Be Second Indian City Earning Carbon Credits

The correct answer is Ghaziabad. The municipal corporation of this city in Uttar Pradesh has registered for an international carbon credit project verified by the United Nations and has been accredited under the Verified Carbon Standard, which is supported by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Following Indore in Madhya Pradesh, it is set to become the first urban local body in its own state and the second in the country to convert waste into a new source of value. Options A, C and D name other large cities of the same state, but none of them is the body described as taking this step. Candidates should hold two names together for this fact, Indore as the first and Ghaziabad as the second, along with the standard under which the accreditation was granted.

The correct answer is Goa. The facility at Saligao is operated by the Goa Waste Management Corporation and stands on land that was once used as a garbage dump. It is spread over an area of 113,000 square metres and manages 250 metric tons of wet and dry waste each day, recovering recyclables from 100 metric tons of dry waste and sending the remainder to cement factories for co-processing. Organic matter is separated and converted into biogas, which in turn generates electricity for the neighbourhood, and the plant produces 7 to 8 tons of compost a day for use by local panchayats in gardening and reforestation. Options A, B and D name other states along or near the western coast, but the facility described here belongs to Goa and treats close to a third of the waste generated in that state.

The correct answer is Andhra Pradesh. Kakinada lies in the East Godavari district of that state and has become a leading example of technology enabled sanitation. The city generates about 144 tons of waste daily, which the municipal corporation handles across 50 wards further divided into 382 micro pockets, each covering between 250 and 350 households. More than 973 sanitation workers serve about 112,993 households through 40,661 designated collection points. Radio frequency identification tags fitted at the gates of waste generators are scanned at the time of pick up and the data flows into an online waste management system, while 108 hopper vehicles carry GPS devices and workers mark attendance through facial recognition. Options A, B and C name neighbouring states, but the city in question is in Andhra Pradesh.