On which date did DARE and ICAR begin Special Campaign 6.0?

The correct answer is Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Rural Development, who honoured the Safai Mitras of the ICAR-Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute with shawls, bouquets and gifts for keeping the campus clean through the year. The programme was called Shramik Samman and formed the highlight of the day at the Goa institute. Option D, Shri Shripad Yesso Naik, is a Union Minister of State who attended the same event but did not lead the felicitation, which makes him the most tempting distractor. Option B holds the Jal Shakti portfolio and option C the environment portfolio, and neither is named in this programme. Goa Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant appreciated the institute's participation under Swachhata Hi Seva 2026, and Rajya Sabha member Shri Sadanand Shet Tanawade was also present.

The correct answer is Dr Mangi Lal Jat, who holds both posts, Secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education and Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Speaking at the Swachh Bharat Diwas programme of ICAR-IARI in New Delhi, he appreciated the institute's cleanliness drive and asked that Swachhata be treated as a year-round, team-based activity rather than a one-day event, linking a clean workplace with the well-being of employees, the advance of science and the health of people. He also stressed second-line leadership, the mentoring of future science leaders, the holistic development of students and accountability for the work entrusted to each person. Options A and C are not named anywhere in this announcement and work only as distractors, while option D is the Chief Minister of Goa, who appreciated the work of the coastal research institute at the Shramik Samman programme.

The correct answer is compulsory teaching of the languages in all schools, which is not among the stated areas of focus. The four areas are strengthening academic research and scholarship, preservation and digitisation of linguistic and literary resources, wider dissemination of classical language heritage, and strengthening regional academic ecosystems. Options A, B and D are therefore wrong answers to a question asking what is not included, because each of them is in fact one of the four. The centres are research and preservation bodies placed in higher educational institutions, so their work runs to documentation, digitisation, scholarship and access rather than to school curricula. Reading the question carefully matters here, since a hurried candidate who answers what the centres will do rather than what they will not do loses the mark on an item they knew.

The correct answer is the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute in Pune, a deemed-to-be university, which will host the centre for Classical Marathi in Maharashtra. Option A is the strongest distractor because it names another well known university in the same city, and a candidate who remembers only the city of Pune can be caught by it. Option C is wrong because the host is in Pune rather than Mumbai. Option D is wrong because the Central University of Gujarat hosts the centre for Classical Prakrit, not for Marathi. Note the type of institution as well as its name: the Pune host is a deemed-to-be university, while two of the five centres sit in central universities that carry the word central in their names, and an examiner may test that distinction rather than only the name.

The correct answer is the Central University of Odisha. This pairing is a favourite with paper setters precisely because it is not the one a candidate would guess, since Pali is not a language a reader would associate with a particular modern State in the way Assamese or Bengali is. Option A is wrong because the Central University of Gujarat hosts the centre for Classical Prakrit, and swapping the two central universities is the trap in this question. Option C is wrong because Tezpur University in Assam hosts the centre for Classical Assamese. Option D is wrong because Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal hosts the centre for Classical Bengali. The safest way to carry these is in pairs: Pali with Odisha and Prakrit with Gujarat, both at central universities, and Marathi at the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute in Pune.