Hydroponic weed seized at the Foreign Post Office in Jaipur had arrived in a parcel from which country?

The correct answer is the NDPS Act, 1985, that is, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. The destruction of the seized stock followed the procedure laid down in that law, and the authorised disposal was carried out under the watch of the Drug Disposal Committee with a representative of the state pollution control board present, so that the material was incinerated safely and could not slip back into the illicit trade. Option A is wrong because the customs law deals with import and export duties and smuggling of goods generally, not with the disposal of narcotic substances. Option C is wrong because the money laundering law deals with the proceeds of crime rather than the contraband itself. Option D is wrong because the older opium law has been replaced by the present statute for these purposes. The same law was cited for both the fresh seizures reported by the bureau.

The correct answer is Neemuch. Along with the destruction of the bulk of the seized contraband, the bureau deposited 154.375 kg of seized opium at the Government Opium and Alkaloid Works at Neemuch in Madhya Pradesh as part of the prescribed disposal process. Option A is wrong because Mandsaur is the station of the preventive and intelligence cell whose officers made the separate opium seizure on the road towards Manasa. Option B is wrong because Khor is the place where the cement plant stands at which the destruction was carried out, which is a different step in the same process. Option D is wrong because Jaipur is where the parcel from abroad was examined at the Foreign Post Office. Candidates should remember Neemuch as the centre linked with the lawful handling and processing of opium.

The correct answer is poppy straw. Of the total stock destroyed in the disposal operation, poppy straw accounted for 10,823.990 kg, which is almost the whole of the consignment. The remaining items were far smaller in quantity: heroin at 7.535 kg, charas at 7.400 kg, mephedrone at 3.175 kg and brown sugar at 0.050 kg, adding up with the poppy straw to the overall figure for the operation. Options A, B and C therefore name drugs that were indeed part of the destroyed stock but in very small amounts compared with poppy straw. The distinction matters because poppy straw is bulky plant material, while heroin, charas and mephedrone are concentrated substances that are trafficked in much smaller weights, and examination questions often test this sense of proportion.

The correct answer is Eco Clubs for Mission LiFE. The Shramdaan was organised at a PM SHRI school in New Delhi under the aegis of Eco Clubs for Mission LiFE and was led by the Secretary of the Department of School Education and Literacy, with students, teachers, senior officials and officers of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan joining in. The drive covered the school campus, the community space next to it and the park facing the school, and was followed by a plantation programme under Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam 3.0 and a quiz on the Solid Waste Management Rules. Options B, C and D name other well-known school-level programmes of the education sector, but none of them was the banner under which this cleanliness drive was conducted. Remember the pairing of Eco Clubs with Mission LiFE in school-level environment activities.

The correct answer is 157th. On the concluding day of the campaign the Department offered floral tribute to the Father of the Nation on his 157th birth anniversary, the date that is observed across the country as Swachh Bharat Diwas. Option A names the anniversary that was marked in an earlier year and is often remembered because of the sanitation targets attached to it, so it is a tempting distractor, but it is not the one marked here. Option B names an anniversary that had already passed before this campaign. Option D names an anniversary still in the future. Candidates should link three things together for this date: Gandhi Jayanti, Swachh Bharat Diwas and the closing day of Swachhata Hi Seva, and should be able to state the anniversary number asked for in the year under study.