Special Campaign 6.0 to Run in Government Offices From 2 October

The correct answer is 2 October to 31 October 2026. Ministries and departments have said that the implementation phase of Special Campaign 6.0 covers exactly that month, beginning on Gandhi Jayanti and closing at the end of October, in line with the guidelines issued by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances. Option A is wrong because the second half of September 2026 was only the preparatory phase, used to identify pending VIP references, public grievances and grievance appeals, and no part of the drive was fixed for August. Option C is wrong because November belongs to the earlier round: Special Campaign 5.0 began in November 2025 and continued to August 2026, so November is when the previous edition opened rather than when this one runs. Option D is wrong because the campaign closes on 31 October and does not stretch to December; a three-month window has not been announced for this edition.

The correct answer is the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG). DARPG began this special campaign in 2021, framing a clean India as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, and decided to continue it in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and again in 2026; ministries implement each edition to its guidelines and report progress on the SCDPM Portal that DARPG maintains. Option A is wrong: the Department of Personnel and Training handles service matters and recruitment rules, and is not named as the authority behind this campaign. Option B is wrong because the Cabinet Secretariat coordinates business at the Cabinet level rather than issuing the parameters for pendency disposal and office cleanliness used here. Option D is wrong since the Department of Expenditure deals with public finance and spending controls, and had no role in setting out the campaign that departments are now preparing for.

The correct answer is 4,105. Reporting on the round it ran from November 2025 to August 2026, NITI Aayog said it had settled 4,105 public grievances, along with 127 PMO references, 34 grievance appeals and 5 Parliamentary Assurances, while freeing about 90 square feet of space. Option A is wrong because 340 is the count of MP references cleared by the water resources department under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, not grievances handled at NITI Aayog. Option B is wrong for the same reason: 3,878 is that department's figure for public grievances disposed of, a separate and larger tally from a separate organisation. Option D is wrong because 1,96,905 is not a count of cases at all; it is the amount in rupees that NITI Aayog realised by disposing of scrap during the campaign, and mixing the two figures is the trap here.

The correct answer is the Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Research Development and Design Centre (JNARDDC), Nagpur. It has been designated the nodal agency and is coordinating the drive with the Material Recycling Association of India, holding virtual meetings with nodal officers of the ministry's offices; more than 44 office locations have been finalised nationwide, more than 28 of them in Maharashtra. Options A, B and C name organisations that are taking part in the campaign but are not coordinating it. The Geological Survey of India and the Indian Bureau of Mines are among the offices whose nodal officers were briefed, and the National Institute of Rock Mechanics is likewise a participant, as are public sector companies such as NALCO, Hindustan Zinc, MECL and Hindustan Copper. The ministry frames the drive as a way to recover metals that matter for modern technologies and to strengthen the circular economy.