PRAGATI-50 Launched to Build 50 Model Cities for Swachhata

The correct answer is 50 cities across 24 states. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has identified 50 model cities under PRAGATI-50 to demonstrate a higher benchmark of Swachhata, and the Union Minister stated at the launch that these cities are spread across 24 states. The list was framed to include major cities, places of cultural importance, leading tourism destinations and economic centres. Option A understates both figures. Option C uses the startup target of the Mission rather than the number of cities, which makes it a plausible trap. Option D doubles the number of cities while keeping the correct number of states, so it too is wrong. The initiative takes its name from the number of cities chosen, which is a useful memory aid.

The correct answer is Durgapur. The Ministry set up the Swachh Bharat Test Bed and Innovation Centre at Durgapur in collaboration with CSIR-CMERI, and it is meant to serve as a national facility for research, product development, testing, validation, certification and capacity building in sanitation technologies. Option B, Kanpur, is a plausible distractor because the third cohort of Swachhata startups was launched with the Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre at IIT Kanpur, but that is a separate activity from the Test Bed. Option C, Indore, is widely associated with urban cleanliness rankings but was not named as the Test Bed site. Option D, Pune, was not mentioned at all. The centre was created because the Mission has consistently placed research and innovation at the heart of its Swachhata work. Hence option A is correct.

The correct answer is IIT Kanpur. The Ministry launched the third cohort of startups working on sanitation and waste management in collaboration with the Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre at IIT Kanpur. With 13 startups joining this cohort, the Mission completed its national target of onboarding and incubating 75 startups across the waste value chain. The Minister of State also used the occasion to note that India has emerged as the world's third-largest startup ecosystem. Options A, C and D name other leading technical institutions of the country, each of which runs its own incubation facilities, which makes them plausible; however, none of them was named as the partner for this cohort. The cohort is focused on pioneering solutions in sanitation and waste management. So option B is the answer.

The correct answer is in a Union Ministry office. As part of Swachhata Hi Seva 2026 the Union Minister inaugurated a Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Centre at Sankalp Bhawan in New Delhi, and it has been described as the first such centre in a Union Ministry office. The purpose is to promote sustainable consumption, reuse, resource recovery and circularity within government workplaces, so that the offices framing the policy also practise it. Option A, a railway station, and options C and D, a municipal corporation building and a central university campus, are all places where such collection points are plausible, and RRR centres have been popularised widely, but the distinction claimed here relates specifically to a Union Ministry office. Hence option B is correct.