NBA Gets Rs 9.68 Crore Under Access and Benefit Sharing

The correct answer is Rs 9.68 crore. The National Biodiversity Authority received that amount from users of India biological resources in the half year from 1 April 2026 to 30 September 2026, under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, as amended in 2023, read with the Access and Benefit Sharing Regulations. Of this total, Rs 9.56 crore was paid specifically for access to biological resources by firms across sectors, with the small remainder coming from applications relating to intellectual property rights and other heads. Options A, C and D are deliberately close to the real figure, since questions on this release are most likely to turn on the exact amount rather than on a round number. A good way to fix it in memory is to pair the headline figure of Rs 9.68 crore with the access component of Rs 9.56 crore and with the leading sector, agri-seed, at Rs 7.16 crore.

The correct answer is agriculture and seeds. The agri-seed sector accounted for the largest share of the receipts at Rs 7.16 crore, well ahead of every other category. Option A, food and beverages, came second with Rs 1.59 crore. Option B, animal husbandry, was third at Rs 62.01 lakh. Option D, cosmetics, was among the smallest heads, at Rs 0.04 crore, alongside Red Sanders wood at Rs 0.06 crore and AYUSH at Rs 0.21 crore. That ordering is the most likely thing to be asked, because it shows which industries actually draw on the country biological wealth in commercial quantities. It also fits the list of resources behind the payments, which is dominated by crops such as chickpea, red lentil, green moong, horse gram, guar gum, okra and brinjal, alongside medicinal plants and soil micro-organisms.

The correct answer is the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, as amended in 2023. The receipts of the National Biodiversity Authority come in under that Act read with the Access and Benefit Sharing Regulations, which require users of Indian biological resources to share benefits with the country and with the communities that conserve those resources. Options A, B and D name important environmental laws, but none of them governs benefit sharing from the commercial use of biological resources: the first deals broadly with environmental protection, the second with the protection of wild species and protected areas, and the third with the diversion of forest land. The money collected under the correct Act is routed through State Biodiversity Boards and Union Territory Biodiversity Councils, and funds People Biodiversity Registers, Biodiversity Management Committees, research and direct benefits to local communities and other benefit claimers.

The correct answer is M/s Synergia Life Science Ltd, whose payment of Rs 1.17 crore was the single largest one received in the period. The distinction worth holding on to is between the largest overall contributor and the largest single payment. Option A, M/s East West Seeds India Ltd, was the biggest contributor in total, paying roughly Rs 2.01 crore, but it did so across several instalments rather than in one payment. Option C, M/s Tata Chemicals Pvt Ltd, paid Rs 52.06 lakh, placing it among the significant contributors along with M/s Indena India at Rs 45.89 lakh, M/s Grow Indigo at Rs 45.79 lakh, M/s Novozymes South Asia at Rs 44.11 lakh and M/s Nongwoo Seed India at Rs 40.53 lakh. Option D, M/s Nunhems India Ltd, made upfront payments of about Rs 1.64 crore. Contributors also included entities from Sri Lanka, Germany, France, the Republic of Korea and Bhutan.