The Aawa Paani Jhoki movement, under which farmers set aside 5 per cent of their land for water conservation, is in which district?
- A.Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh
- B.Korea district, Chhattisgarh
- C.Kalahandi district, Odisha
- D.Barmer district, Rajasthan
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Explanation
The correct answer is Korea district, Chhattisgarh. The backgrounder describes farmers there voluntarily dedicating 5 per cent of their agricultural land for recharge ponds and terraced pits under the Aawa Paani Jhoki movement, and holds the model up as proof that sustainable water management needs neither large-scale displacement nor heavy capital. More than 1,260 farmers adopted it, more than 2,000 soak pits were created across the district, groundwater levels rose by 3 to 4 metres in many villages and springs were revived in 17 remote tribal hamlets. Option A is the trap: Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh also features in the same backgrounder, but there the villages of Murugummi, Marella and Thangella used a ridge-to-valley approach with Gram Sabhas and Kalajathas. Options C and D name districts that do not appear at all. Government support in Korea came as micro-watershed mapping and hydrogeological assessment.
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Practice Questions
Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari is guided by the 3Cs. Which three does the term stand for?
- A.Community, Corporate Social Responsibility and Cost
- B.Catchment, Conservation and Community
- C.Cost, Capacity and Coordination
- D.Community, Conservation and Compliance
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The backgrounder states that the initiative is guided by the 3Cs and spells them out in exactly those words.
Read the full explanation →As of 3 September 2026, how many artificial groundwater recharge structures had been built under Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari?
- A.More than 27 lakh
- B.More than 1.5 crore
- C.More than 1.58 crore
- D.More than 2.4 crore
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The backgrounder gives a running series of figures, and each belongs to a different date, which is where candidates slip.
Read the full explanation →Since ethanol supply year 2014-15, how much foreign exchange has the ethanol blending programme saved?
- A.More than Rs 62,000 crore
- B.More than Rs 1.01 lakh crore
- C.More than Rs 1.66 lakh crore
- D.More than Rs 1.97 lakh crore
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The ministry listed four cumulative outcomes of the blending programme since ethanol supply year 2014-15: foreign exchange savings above that amount, substitution of about 316 lakh metric tonnes of crude oil, avoidance of about 952 lakh metric tonnes of carbon dioxide, and transfers of more than Rs 1.66 lakh crore…
Read the full explanation →What ethanol content was recorded on average in the samples tested in Karnataka?
- A.19.30 per cent
- B.21.50 per cent
- C.26 per cent
- D.31 per cent
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All 56 samples tested in Karnataka, taken from different locations and from all three oil marketing companies, conformed to the prescribed specification, with ethanol content ranging between 19 and 20 per cent and averaging that figure.
Read the full explanation →Which Bureau of Indian Standards specification applies to ethanol-blended motor gasoline?
- A.IS 1460
- B.IS 2796
- C.IS 17021
- D.IS 15607
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This is the Bureau of Indian Standards specification for ethanol-blended motor gasoline, and E20 petrol supplied by the three public sector oil marketing companies across the country is required to conform to it.
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