Swachh Bharat Diwas 2026 Marked by Special Gram Sabhas

The correct answer is Majigam in Navsari district, Gujarat. Union Minister of Jal Shakti Shri C. R. Patil attended the Special Gram Sabha there, in Chikhli Block, on Swachh Bharat Diwas. He honoured sanitation workers, viewed the Waste to Art display and planted a sapling under the Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam drive. The other three options name villages where Special Gram Sabhas were also held, but they were attended by officers of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, not by the Union Minister. Option A, Sayli in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, was visited by a Deputy Secretary, who also saw a sewage treatment plant. Option D, Pindarkom in Ranchi district of Jharkhand, was covered by another Deputy Secretary, and option C, Ratipur in Palwal district of Haryana, saw an inspection of the waste segregation shed. Aspirants should link the Minister's name with the village, the block, the district and the state.

The correct answer is an annual digital self-assessment carried out by a Gram Panchayat. The framework lets a panchayat judge its own sanitation work each year, and it was taken up in the Special Gram Sabhas, above all in ODF Plus (Model) Gram Panchayats; the Joint Secretary and Mission Director of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) made a presentation on it at Majigam. Option A is wrong because it is not an award given from the centre to a district; it is an exercise the panchayat performs on itself. Option C is wrong on two counts, since the framework belongs to the rural arm of the mission and is not a survey of urban toilets. Option D is wrong because no vehicle subsidy was announced; what the sabhas reviewed were the results of Swachhata Hi Seva 2026, the four-way segregation of waste at source required by the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026, and the listing of bulk waste generators.

The correct answer is Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam, the plantation drive under which Shri C. R. Patil and the Joint Secretary and Mission Director of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) planted trees at Majigam. The same drive was followed at the sabhas in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Jharkhand and Haryana, where plantation accompanied the honouring of sanitation workers and the Swachhata pledge. Option A, Van Mahotsav, is the long-standing tree-planting week of July and was not the drive named here. Option C, Harit Bharat Abhiyan, is a plausible-sounding title but no such drive figures in the day's programme. Option D, Nagar Van Yojana, concerns urban forests and city green spaces, which is not what the Gram Sabhas in villages were doing. Remember the drive along with the Waste to Art exhibit and the Swachhata pledge taken by everyone present.