To whom are completed rural water supply schemes formally handed over under Jal Arpan?

The correct answer is Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0. Jal Arpan is described as a key reform under that mission, and it places rural drinking water systems in the hands of the communities that use them by handing completed schemes to gram panchayats and to Village Water and Sanitation Committees. Option A, the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen), is wrong because that mission deals with sanitation and waste management rather than the handover of piped drinking water schemes, even though special gram sabhas on Gandhi Jayanti covered both subjects. Option C, Atal Bhujal Yojana, is wrong because it concerns groundwater management in water-stressed areas and is not the mission under which this handover reform sits. Option D, the National River Conservation Plan, is wrong because it addresses pollution in rivers, not village water supply. For revision, tie the name Jal Arpan to Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0 and to the two recipients of the schemes, namely the gram panchayat and the Village Water and Sanitation Committee.

The correct answer is 346. That many Har Ghar Jal certificates were generated for eligible gram panchayats and villages, and the issue of these certificates in regional languages through the Jal Arpan module was itself described as a first. The module now provides the certificate in Hindi, English and seventeen other regional languages, which is how the certification is being made easier for villagers to use. Options A and C are wrong because they are near misses on the certificate count and do not match the figure recorded for the occasion. Option D is wrong for a different and instructive reason: that figure is the number of gram panchayats and villages where Jal Arpan was observed, not the number of certificates issued, and mixing up two figures from the same announcement is the commonest way such a question is got wrong. Keep the two apart in revision, one for coverage and one for certificates.

The correct answer is Sujalam Bharat. Digital governance and asset management under Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0 are being strengthened through Sujalam Bharat, under which water supply assets and piped water supply sources are geotagged, and on the Jal Arpan occasion a total of 2691 assets were geotagged across the country, including about 700 sources. Option B is wrong because it refers to a separate initiative on village water bodies and was not named as the geotagging platform here. Option C is wrong because it is a campaign on water conservation and not the digital asset platform described. Option D is wrong because no such platform was named in connection with this geotagging exercise. The purpose of the exercise is worth noting as well: a geotagged inventory of assets and sources supports planning, monitoring and the long-term upkeep of rural water supply systems, which is the direction Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0 has taken.

The correct answer is KRIBHCO. The memorandum of understanding for developing an urban forest in Bhopal under the Morvan Project was exchanged between KRIBHCO and the Madhya Pradesh State Biodiversity Board during the programme. Option B, IFFCO, is a different fertiliser cooperative and was not party to this agreement, although the similarity of the two names makes it the most likely wrong answer to attract a candidate. Option C, NAFED, is the cooperative marketing federation for agricultural produce and had no role in this memorandum. Option D, the National Cooperative Development Corporation, finances cooperative development and was likewise not involved here. Two other cooperative details from the same event are worth noting together with this one: the Sardar Patel Cooperative Dairy Federation Limited has been established for work in the dairy sector, and sanction letters were handed out under the Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Kamdhenu Yojana.

The correct answer is 485 grams. Per capita milk availability in the country has risen by about 58 per cent, from around 307 grams a day in 2014-15 to about 485 grams a day at present, and India is now the world's largest milk producing country. Option A is wrong because it is the earlier figure and not the present one; a question that gives both years and asks for one of them is testing exactly this distinction. Options B and D are wrong because they are near misses on the current figure and do not match what was stated. The companion figures are worth revising in the same breath: total milk production has grown from about 14.60 crore tonnes in 2014-15 to about 24.80 crore tonnes, and dairy exports stand at about 4,666 crore rupees to countries including the United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh, the United States, Saudi Arabia and Bhutan.