On which date was the Swachh Bharat Mission launched?

The correct answer is Bengaluru, in Karnataka, where an old vehicle at the Majestic terminal of the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation was converted into a facility for women alone. It holds three Indian-style and two Western-style commodes, a sanitary napkin vending machine and an incinerator for menstrual hygiene, and a dedicated space where mothers can feed babies and change nappies, while its sensor lights run on solar power the facility itself generates. The three wrong options are the other cities in the same account, each with a different innovation: Bhopal runs the Freshrooms smart lounges at a market, Navi Mumbai built toilets out of recycled plastic at Koparkhairane, and Tirupati maintains large complexes for pilgrims. Matching each city to its own innovation is the surest way to answer whichever pairing the question asks for.

The correct answer is 11,700 bottles and 35,200 caps. The structure built by the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation at Sector 14, Koparkhairane, uses 426 square metres of recycled plastic sheeting, which includes 5.3 metric tonnes of single-use plastic, and the builders also reused 85 repurposed computer keyboards and 284 kg of scrap metal. A fountain running on treated sewage water completes the design, and the site stands near the Nisargudyan urban garden where 8,000 to 9,000 visitors come each day. The other options carry invented counts of the sort an examiner uses to test whether a candidate has learnt the bottle figure together with the cap figure. The toilet also has separate sections for men and women, units for children and for persons with disabilities, baby care stations and sanitary pad vending machines.

The correct answer is Satara district of Maharashtra. The municipal council there collects 300 to 350 kg of sanitary waste a day from hospitals, clinics, households and other premises, placed red bins inside public toilets, and worked with women residents to form awareness groups that carried the message through residential areas. It allotted land for a Common Biomedical Waste Treatment Facility of 600 kg a day, which the Karad Hospital Association operates and maintains, and the council pays nothing for the treatment of the waste it collects. The central incinerator reaches temperatures of up to 1,200 degrees Celsius, gases are filtered, and emissions are watched in real time through a link to the State Pollution Control Board system. The other three options are neighbouring districts of western Maharashtra, close enough to be tempting but not the right one.

The correct answer is 20,763. The steel ministry and its central public sector enterprises have set that number of physical files for disposal during the month, along with 9,056 electronic files, and they have planned 301 cleanliness activities at their offices and locations. Option A is the steel ministry's electronic file target rather than its physical file target, so it belongs to the same announcement but to the wrong column. Option B is the number of physical files the environment ministry identified for review, and option C is the number of electronic files that ministry identified, so both come from the other ministry's list. The steel ministry has also singled out 37 pending public grievances and wants that pendency brought down to zero, besides handling references from Members of Parliament, the Prime Minister's Office, the Cabinet and state governments.

The correct answer is the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, usually shortened to DARPG. The campaign is being run in line with its guidelines, it has finalised the standard operating procedure for scientific disposal of electronic waste, and ministries report their progress on its Special Campaign for Disposal of Pending Matters portal, which is updated through the month. Option A, the Department of Personnel and Training, handles service matters and recruitment policy but is not the owner of this campaign. Option B, the Department of Expenditure, deals with public finance and has no stated role here. Option D, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, frames policy on electronics but the e-waste procedure for this campaign came from DARPG. Nodal officers in each ministry coordinate the work and ensure that reporting on the portal stays current.