National Anti-Drug Addiction Day Marked in Rajasthan Opium Belt

The correct answer is Mahatma Gandhi. National Anti-Drug Addiction Day falls on 2 October, the birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and the Central Bureau of Narcotics tied its Rajasthan programmes to Gandhi’s message of self-discipline and social responsibility. Option A is wrong because Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s birth anniversary is marked separately as a day of national unity and has no link to this observance. Option C is wrong because Lal Bahadur Shastri, though also born on 2 October, is not the leader the anti-addiction day is named after; the bureau’s programmes referred specifically to the Father of the Nation. Option D is wrong because Dr B. R. Ambedkar’s anniversary is observed on a different date and is associated with social justice commemorations rather than the anti-drug campaign described here.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Finance. The release on the Rajasthan Unit’s anti-addiction programmes was issued under the Ministry of Finance, which is the parent ministry of the Central Bureau of Narcotics; the bureau licenses and supervises legal opium poppy cultivation. Option A is wrong because, although the Home Ministry handles policing and the Narcotics Control Bureau, the CBN itself is not placed under it. Option B is wrong because the Health Ministry deals with treatment and de-addiction services rather than the licensing of poppy farming. Option D is wrong because, even though poppy is an agricultural crop, its cultivation is controlled as a narcotics and revenue matter, not by the agriculture ministry. Candidates should remember the CBN and its revenue-side parentage as a standing fact.

The correct answer is Operation Yuva Raksha. The student session at the University of Kota was organised by CBN Kota under this campaign, with Deputy Narcotics Commissioner Naresh Bundel as chief guest and the university Registrar Murlidhar Pratihar present; participants ended the session by taking the Nasha Mukti Pledge. Option B is wrong because that name belongs to a separate maritime anti-narcotics effort and was not the banner for this campus programme. Options C and D are wrong because no such campaigns were named in connection with the observance; the only other banner mentioned was Yuva Raksha and Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, used for the Chittorgarh awareness and cleanliness drive. The youth-focused name is the one worth memorising here.

The correct answer is opium poppy. The bureau deliberately took its programmes into the licensed poppy-growing tracts of Rajasthan, holding meetings for cultivators in Kota, Jhalawar, Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Pratapgarh and Udaipur districts, including villages such as Mangrol and one near Babrikhda in Jhalrapatan tehsil. Option A is wrong because sugarcane is not a narcotics crop and falls outside the bureau’s licensing remit. Option C is wrong because cotton, though widely grown in parts of the state, has no bearing on narcotics regulation. Option D is wrong because mustard is an ordinary oilseed crop of Rajasthan and is not licensed or supervised by the Central Bureau of Narcotics. The link between the bureau and poppy cultivation is the point of the question.