As of 3 September 2026, how many artificial groundwater recharge structures had been built under Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari?

The correct answer is Community, Corporate Social Responsibility and Cost. The backgrounder states that the initiative is guided by the 3Cs and spells them out in exactly those words. The other options are built out of words that belong to the same subject and therefore feel right, which is how such questions are set: catchment, conservation, capacity, coordination and compliance all occur in water policy writing but are not the three Cs here. The definition is worth keeping with the rest of the initiative's design: Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari builds low-cost groundwater recharge and water storage structures, revives defunct borewells, and promotes scientifically designed but locally suitable solutions through a Whole-of-Government and Whole-of-Society approach. It was launched on 6 September 2024, and placing community partnership and ownership at the centre of water conservation is what the 3Cs express.

The correct answer is Korea district, Chhattisgarh. The backgrounder describes farmers there voluntarily dedicating 5 per cent of their agricultural land for recharge ponds and terraced pits under the Aawa Paani Jhoki movement, and holds the model up as proof that sustainable water management needs neither large-scale displacement nor heavy capital. More than 1,260 farmers adopted it, more than 2,000 soak pits were created across the district, groundwater levels rose by 3 to 4 metres in many villages and springs were revived in 17 remote tribal hamlets. Option A is the trap: Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh also features in the same backgrounder, but there the villages of Murugummi, Marella and Thangella used a ridge-to-valley approach with Gram Sabhas and Kalajathas. Options C and D name districts that do not appear at all. Government support in Korea came as micro-watershed mapping and hydrogeological assessment.

The correct answer is the Miyawaki method, which raises dense, multi layered forest in a small space. The Sayara Van Kavach has been developed over a site of 9.46 square kilometres and holds more than 10,000 saplings across 47 native species chosen to suit the saline, low water conditions of Kachchh. It is expected to lower local temperatures, help recharge groundwater, check soil erosion and give birds, insects and small wildlife a natural habitat, besides serving eco tourism, environmental education and local employment. Option B is wrong because the taungya method interplants crops with young trees and is a plantation practice of a different kind. Option C is wrong because coppicing regenerates trees from cut stumps rather than raising a new dense patch. Option D is wrong because the shelterwood system is a technique of regeneration under an existing canopy. The Minister praised the Van Kavach model as a green protective shield developed around human settlements.

The correct answer is 33. The Minister flagged off that many new patrolling and rescue vehicles, and they are to be used across various divisions under the Kachchh Forest Circle for forest protection, forest development, wildlife protection, field patrolling, monitoring and quick response work. The other options are drawn from figures that appear elsewhere in the same release, which is what makes them tempting. Option A is wrong because 15 square kilometres is the area covered by the predator proof fencing raised in the bustard landscape. Option D is wrong because 47 is the number of native species planted at the Sayara Van Kavach, not a count of vehicles. Option B does not correspond to any figure in the release. When several numbers appear in one news item, the safest method is to attach each number to its own noun: 11 square kilometres of grassland restored, 30 kilometres of fencing, 15 square kilometres enclosed, 33 vehicles and 47 species.

The correct answer is the Great Indian Bustard. Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav inaugurated the Soft Release Centre for the bird at the facility in Naliya, in the Kachchh district of Gujarat, and the centre carries infrastructure meant to support conservation, monitoring and the gradual adaptation of these birds to the natural environment. The three distractors are all species associated with Gujarat, which is why they are plausible. Option A is wrong because the Asiatic lion is linked with the Gir landscape and not with this facility. Option C is wrong because the Indian wild ass is associated with the Rann, and no such centre was announced for it here. Option D is wrong because sea turtles do not figure in this release at all, although the Minister did visit mangrove and seaweed sites at Jakhau on the same day. Candidates should tie the Great Indian Bustard to Kachchh in Gujarat as well as to the Thar landscape.