By which date did Union Home Minister Amit Shah say the drug trade would be uprooted from India?
- A.31 December 2027
- B.15 August 2028
- C.31 December 2029
- D.15 August 2047
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Explanation
The correct answer is 31 December 2029. The Union Home Minister stated this deadline while addressing the third National Conference of Anti-Narcotics Task Force Heads of States and Union Territories in New Delhi in September, and he coupled it with a call for coordinated action, clear targets, accountability and the dismantling of drug networks. Option A advances the year and so misses the target by two years. Option B mixes up the independence day date with the deadline, a confusion made easier by the fact that the campaign itself was launched on 15 August. Option D is wrong because the year named there belongs to the wider vision of a developed India, which the Home Minister linked to protecting young people from substance abuse but which is not the deadline for ending the drug trade. Candidates should keep the two years separate in revision.
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Practice Questions
Under which national plan does the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan operate?
- A.National Action Plan for Drug Demand Reduction
- B.National Health Mission
- C.National Social Assistance Programme
- D.National Rural Livelihoods Mission
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The Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan is the flagship drug demand reduction initiative of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and sits under that plan, which is why its work centres on awareness, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and aftercare rather than on policing.
Read the full explanation →How many vulnerable districts did the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan focus on when it was launched?
- A.112
- B.272
- C.372
- D.750
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The campaign began on 15 August 2020 with that many vulnerable districts, selected because substance use was found to be especially widespread in them, and it has since widened its reach to the country as a whole.
Read the full explanation →What is the National De-Addiction Helpline number mentioned in connection with the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan?
- A.1800
- B.14416
- C.14446
- D.15100
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This is the National De-Addiction Helpline, and it gives individuals and families a way to seek information and assistance on substance-use concerns, which fits the campaign's emphasis on making help easier to reach and on reducing the stigma that keeps people from asking for it.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the Livelihood Business Incubation Centre at Rourkela established?
- A.2014
- B.2016
- C.2018
- D.2021
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The centre at Rourkela in Odisha was set up that year as a joint effort of three ministries and the central public sector undertakings under them, and it has since trained Scheduled Tribe youth in trades ranging from tailoring and baking to mushroom farming, electrical work and computer operation with…
Read the full explanation →Under which scheme were plant and machinery installed at the Rourkela livelihood incubation centre?
- A.ASPIRE
- B.SAMARTH
- C.PM Vishwakarma
- D.Stand Up India
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The split of responsibilities is the heart of this item and is worth memorising: the Rourkela Steel Plant of Steel Authority of India Limited gives the land and premises, the MSME ministry's scheme pays for the machinery, and the National Scheduled Tribes Finance and Development Corporation carries the running costs…
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