The India State of Forest Report is published by which organisation?
- A.Central Pollution Control Board
- B.Forest Survey of India
- C.Botanical Survey of India
- D.Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the Forest Survey of India. Set up in 1981 and based at Dehradun, it assesses the country's forest and tree cover from satellite data and brings out the India State of Forest Report once every two years, giving the cover state by state and by density class.
Option A, the Central Pollution Control Board, monitors air and water quality and publishes air quality data, not forest cover. Option C, the Botanical Survey of India, founded in 1890 and headquartered at Kolkata, surveys the plant wealth of the country and publishes floras, which is close in subject but different in task. Option D, the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, also at Dehradun, coordinates research and education in forestry rather than the national assessment of cover. The pairing to remember is Forest Survey of India, Dehradun, and the biennial report.
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View allOne of India's worst industrial disasters of all time occurred in Bhopal on December 1984, in which of the following factories?
- A.Exide
- B.Bharat Rasayan Limited
- C.Union Carbide
- D.UPL Limited
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On the night of 2 and 3 December 1984, methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the pesticide plant of Union Carbide India Limited at Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, killing thousands of people and injuring many more.
Read the full explanation →The Red Data book which lists endangered species is maintained -
- A.UNO
- B.IUCN
- C.WHO
- D.WWF
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Founded in 1948 and based in Switzerland, it maintains the Red List of Threatened Species, which grades species as least concern, near threatened, vulnerable, endangered, critically endangered, extinct in the wild or extinct.
Read the full explanation →The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) was signed in the year-
- A.2000
- B.2001
- C.1998
- D.1999
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The Stockholm Convention was adopted in 2001 and came into force in 2004.
Read the full explanation →National Clean Air Programme was launched by the Central Government in which year?
- A.2018
- B.2017
- C.2020
- D.2019
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The National Clean Air Programme was launched by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in January 2019 as a national framework to cut particulate pollution in cities that do not meet the national ambient air quality standards.
Read the full explanation →The Environment (Protection) Act, often described as an umbrella legislation, was enacted in which year?
- A.1974
- B.1981
- C.1986
- D.1991
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The Act was passed in the wake of the Bhopal gas tragedy and gives the central government a general power to take any measure it considers necessary to protect and improve the quality of the environment.
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