What has been the on-the-spot success rate of the first sixteen Pension Adalats?

The correct answer is Dr. Jitendra Singh. The 17th Pension Adalat is being held under the chairmanship of the Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Dr. Jitendra Singh, at the T. N. Chaturvedi Memorial Hall of the Indian Institute of Public Administration in New Delhi on 5 October 2026. The sitting is organised by the Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare, which falls under that ministry, so its Minister of State presides. Option A is wrong because Nitin Gadkari holds the road transport and highways portfolio and has no part in pension grievance redressal. Option C is wrong because Amit Shah is the Home Minister. Option D is wrong as well: Nirmala Sitharaman handles finance, and although pensions involve money, the Pension Adalat is an initiative of the Ministry of Personnel and not of the Ministry of Finance. At this sitting the chair will also release flyers on the previous edition and a booklet of frequently asked questions for family pensioners.

The correct answer is 897. The 17th Pension Adalat is thematic and lists 897 long-pending grievances belonging only to super-senior pensioners and family pensioners. These complaints relate to 24 ministries and departments and were lodged on the CPENGRAMS portal, the online grievance system for central government pensioners. Options A, B and D give figures that do not match the number of cases taken up at this sitting. The scale is best judged against the record of the series: in the sixteen Pension Adalats held before this one, 20,676 of 28,797 grievances were closed on the spot, a success rate of 71.79 per cent, and the rest were settled later through inter-ministerial review meetings held by the Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare. Complainants from across the country may attend this sitting either in person or through video conferencing, because the proceedings are being conducted in hybrid mode.

The correct answer is 2017. The Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare introduced Pension Adalats in 2017 as an alternative way of settling complicated and long-pending pension complaints of central government pensioners. The design is that every stakeholder connected with a particular kind of grievance sits together and disposes of the matter on the spot, an arrangement the department describes as a whole-of-government approach. Because it removes the need for costly and slow court proceedings, it also serves the commitment of the central government to reduce litigation. Options A, C and D name other years and do not mark the start of the initiative. Since then the mechanism has handled 28,797 grievances over sixteen editions and resolved 20,676 of them in the hall itself, a success rate of 71.79 per cent. The 17th edition, on 5 October 2026, is the first thematic one, devoted to super-senior pensioners and family pensioners.

The correct answer is Ek Pedh Maa Ke Naam. The plantation drive was organised in the NTPC area under this initiative by the Department of Swasthavritta and Yoga, and senior faculty members, deans and scholars of the Institute took part in it. Option A, Nagar Van Yojana, is a separate urban forestry scheme and was not the initiative named for this drive. Option B, Green India Mission, is one of the national missions on climate change and again is not what the plantation drive came under here. Option C, Van Mahotsav, is the annual tree-planting festival observed in India, which makes it a plausible but incorrect choice in this question. The name to remember, linked to planting a tree in a mother’s name, is Ek Pedh Maa Ke Naam.

The correct answer is 2 October 2026. The campaign was conducted over a fortnight and was wound up on that date with a campus-wide cleanliness drive, a Swachhata Pledge and the felicitation of Safai Mitras. Option A, 17 September 2026, is wrong because that is the date on which the campaign began, not the day it ended, and this pair of dates is the classic trap in questions on such drives. Option C, 31 October 2026, is wrong because that is the date up to which the next phase, Special Campaign 6.0 on e-waste, continues. Option D is an unrelated national date. Aspirants should remember the start date, the closing date and the end date of the following campaign as three distinct facts.