The Soft Release Centre inaugurated in September 2026 at Naliya, Kachchh, is meant for which species?
- A.Asiatic lion
- B.Great Indian Bustard
- C.Indian wild ass
- D.Olive ridley turtle
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Explanation
The correct answer is the Great Indian Bustard. Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav inaugurated the Soft Release Centre for the bird at the facility in Naliya, in the Kachchh district of Gujarat, and the centre carries infrastructure meant to support conservation, monitoring and the gradual adaptation of these birds to the natural environment. The three distractors are all species associated with Gujarat, which is why they are plausible. Option A is wrong because the Asiatic lion is linked with the Gir landscape and not with this facility. Option C is wrong because the Indian wild ass is associated with the Rann, and no such centre was announced for it here. Option D is wrong because sea turtles do not figure in this release at all, although the Minister did visit mangrove and seaweed sites at Jakhau on the same day. Candidates should tie the Great Indian Bustard to Kachchh in Gujarat as well as to the Thar landscape.
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Practice Questions
How many new patrolling and rescue vehicles did the Union Environment Minister flag off for the Kachchh Forest Circle?
- A.15
- B.25
- C.33
- D.47
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The Minister flagged off that many new patrolling and rescue vehicles, and they are to be used across various divisions under the Kachchh Forest Circle for forest protection, forest development, wildlife protection, field patrolling, monitoring and quick response work.
Read the full explanation →The Sayara Van Kavach in Kachchh has been developed using which method of afforestation?
- A.Miyawaki method
- B.Taungya method
- C.Coppice method
- D.Shelterwood method
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The Sayara Van Kavach has been developed over a site of 9.46 square kilometres and holds more than 10,000 saplings across 47 native species chosen to suit the saline, low water conditions of Kachchh.
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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