In which month and year was the Swachh Bharat Mission launched?
- A.October 2014
- B.August 2014
- C.October 2015
- D.April 2016
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Explanation
The correct answer is October 2014. Scientific management of municipal solid waste has been a core objective of the mission since that launch, and as the mission grew, organic waste came to be treated as a resource for clean energy rather than as rubbish. The waste-to-energy work described at Prayagraj, Gwalior, Hyderabad and Gandhinagar all falls under the urban arm of the mission in its second phase. Option B, August 2014, is close enough in the same year to catch a hasty reader, but it is the wrong month. Option C, October 2015, keeps the right month and moves the year by one, the commonest form of trap in date questions. Option D, April 2016, matches neither. A helpful anchor is that cleanliness is tied to the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, which falls on the second of October, so the month of the launch is easy to fix in memory.
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Practice Questions
How much organic waste can the multi-feedstock bio-CNG plant at Prayagraj process every day?
- A.143 tonnes
- B.243 tonnes
- C.343 tonnes
- D.443 tonnes
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The plant in Uttar Pradesh takes in that quantity of organic waste each day and yields about twenty-one tonnes of bio-CNG, along with twenty-eight tonnes of good quality compost that goes to farmers nearby.
Read the full explanation →In which city is Adarsh Gaushala, described as India's first modern self-sufficient gaushala built around a compressed bio-gas plant?
- A.Bhopal
- B.Gwalior
- C.Indore
- D.Jabalpur
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Adarsh Gaushala stands at Laltipara and is the city's largest cowshed, home to more than ten thousand cattle. Its compressed bio-gas plant of 100 tonnes per day opened in October 2024, spread over five acres, cost 31 crore rupees and was developed with Indian Oil Corporation.
Read the full explanation →The Bowenpally Vegetable Market, whose streetlights run on electricity made from vegetable waste, is in which city?
- A.Bengaluru
- B.Chennai
- C.Hyderabad
- D.Pune
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At the Bowenpally Vegetable Market roughly ten tonnes of vegetable and fruit waste is collected each day, and since an on-site biogas plant came up almost all of it is used rather than sent to landfill.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following groupings did India NOT align itself with in its opening statement at COP31?
- A.G77 and China
- B.Like Minded Developing Countries (LMDC)
- C.BASIC
- D.OPEC
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In its opening statement India said it aligned itself with the statements made by the G77 and China grouping, by the Like Minded Developing Countries and by the BASIC group, and OPEC does not appear among them.
Read the full explanation →The COP31 Presidency's vision of a 'COP of Implementation', welcomed by India, is guided by which three principles?
- A.Dialogue, Consensus and Action
- B.Mitigation, Adaptation and Finance
- C.Equity, Ambition and Transparency
- D.Trust, Technology and Trade
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India welcomed the Presidency's framing of the session as a COP of Implementation and read the three words in order: dialogue builds trust among the parties, consensus ensures that the outcome is collectively owned, and action converts commitments into progress on the ground.
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