Special Campaign 6 Starts With E-Waste Disposal in Focus

The correct answer is 2 October to 31 October 2026. Both the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the Ministry of Steel said on the opening day that the implementation phase of the campaign would run through that month. Option A is the preparatory phase rather than the implementation phase; the steel ministry and its public sector enterprises completed their preparations and set their targets between those September dates, which is why the choice is tempting but wrong. Option C moves the campaign into the following month, which no part of either announcement supports. Option D stretches the window by two days beyond the stated closing date of 31 October. During the month the ministries work on cleanliness at campaign sites, disposal of pending matters, records and space management, process simplification and the removal of redundant items and furniture, with nodal officers reporting progress on the monitoring portal.

The correct answer is the effective collection, segregation and disposal of e-waste. The campaign retains its older aims of cleanliness and clearing pendency, but electronic waste is the subject singled out for this round, and a standard operating procedure for scientific disposal of such waste has been sent to every subordinate office, autonomous organisation and regional office. Option A, digitisation of land records, belongs to a different programme and is nowhere in the campaign guidelines described here. Option C, phasing out single-use plastic, is a separate environmental commitment and not this campaign's theme. Option D, energy audits of government buildings, is likewise unrelated to the announced focus. The environment ministry has already listed the items it will send for disposal, which include information technology and telecommunication equipment, consumer electronics with photovoltaic panels, laboratory instruments and medical devices.

The correct answer is the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, usually shortened to DARPG. The campaign is being run in line with its guidelines, it has finalised the standard operating procedure for scientific disposal of electronic waste, and ministries report their progress on its Special Campaign for Disposal of Pending Matters portal, which is updated through the month. Option A, the Department of Personnel and Training, handles service matters and recruitment policy but is not the owner of this campaign. Option B, the Department of Expenditure, deals with public finance and has no stated role here. Option D, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, frames policy on electronics but the e-waste procedure for this campaign came from DARPG. Nodal officers in each ministry coordinate the work and ensure that reporting on the portal stays current.

The correct answer is 20,763. The steel ministry and its central public sector enterprises have set that number of physical files for disposal during the month, along with 9,056 electronic files, and they have planned 301 cleanliness activities at their offices and locations. Option A is the steel ministry's electronic file target rather than its physical file target, so it belongs to the same announcement but to the wrong column. Option B is the number of physical files the environment ministry identified for review, and option C is the number of electronic files that ministry identified, so both come from the other ministry's list. The steel ministry has also singled out 37 pending public grievances and wants that pendency brought down to zero, besides handling references from Members of Parliament, the Prime Minister's Office, the Cabinet and state governments.