The anti-addiction programmes of the CBN Rajasthan Unit were held mainly in areas growing which licensed crop?

The correct answer is Mahatma Gandhi. National Anti-Drug Addiction Day falls on 2 October, the birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and the Central Bureau of Narcotics tied its Rajasthan programmes to Gandhi’s message of self-discipline and social responsibility. Option A is wrong because Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s birth anniversary is marked separately as a day of national unity and has no link to this observance. Option C is wrong because Lal Bahadur Shastri, though also born on 2 October, is not the leader the anti-addiction day is named after; the bureau’s programmes referred specifically to the Father of the Nation. Option D is wrong because Dr B. R. Ambedkar’s anniversary is observed on a different date and is associated with social justice commemorations rather than the anti-drug campaign described here.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Finance. The release on the Rajasthan Unit’s anti-addiction programmes was issued under the Ministry of Finance, which is the parent ministry of the Central Bureau of Narcotics; the bureau licenses and supervises legal opium poppy cultivation. Option A is wrong because, although the Home Ministry handles policing and the Narcotics Control Bureau, the CBN itself is not placed under it. Option B is wrong because the Health Ministry deals with treatment and de-addiction services rather than the licensing of poppy farming. Option D is wrong because, even though poppy is an agricultural crop, its cultivation is controlled as a narcotics and revenue matter, not by the agriculture ministry. Candidates should remember the CBN and its revenue-side parentage as a standing fact.

The correct answer is Operation Yuva Raksha. The student session at the University of Kota was organised by CBN Kota under this campaign, with Deputy Narcotics Commissioner Naresh Bundel as chief guest and the university Registrar Murlidhar Pratihar present; participants ended the session by taking the Nasha Mukti Pledge. Option B is wrong because that name belongs to a separate maritime anti-narcotics effort and was not the banner for this campus programme. Options C and D are wrong because no such campaigns were named in connection with the observance; the only other banner mentioned was Yuva Raksha and Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, used for the Chittorgarh awareness and cleanliness drive. The youth-focused name is the one worth memorising here.

The correct answer is buy at least one Khadi product. In his Gandhi Jayanti message the Prime Minister recalled the stress that Mahatma Gandhi laid on Swadeshi, with Khadi foremost among its symbols, and he urged every citizen to purchase at least one Khadi item on 2 October and to say with pride that it is Swadeshi. He added the hope that the timeless message of Bapu would continue to guide the country towards a better society and a Viksit Bharat. Option B is wrong because the appeal of the day was about Khadi and Swadeshi, not about a planting target. Option C is wrong because no appeal for a salary contribution was made on this occasion. Option D is wrong because it invents a step count that formed no part of the message. The fact worth remembering is the pairing of Gandhi Jayanti with the Khadi and Swadeshi appeal.

The correct answer is Vijay Ghat. On the birth anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri, both the Prime Minister and the Vice-President went to Vijay Ghat to lay flowers at the memorial of the former Prime Minister. Option A, Rajghat, is wrong because Rajghat is the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, and that is where the tributes of the day for the Father of the Nation were offered; the two memorials are distinct and candidates should not mix them up. Option C, Shanti Van, is wrong because it is a different memorial in the same stretch of Delhi and no tribute to Shastri was offered there on this occasion. Option D, Shakti Sthal, is wrong for the same reason, as it is another memorial site and did not figure in the tributes of the day. The pairing to memorise is simple: Mahatma Gandhi with Rajghat, and Lal Bahadur Shastri with Vijay Ghat.