What is the initial contribution pledged by the Government of India to the International Big Cat Alliance?

The correct answer is 55 Lodhi Estate, New Delhi, which now becomes the headquarters address of the Alliance. The Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change inaugurated the premises, and the Director General of the Alliance welcomed the guests with an account of its activities and programmes. Option A names the city associated with India's forest research and training institutions, but the Alliance does not sit there. Option C is wrong, though it hosts the headquarters of another international body, which is why candidates confuse the two. Option D is wrong as well; it is a state capital with tiger reserves nearby but has no role here. The Alliance is a treaty-based inter-governmental organisation headquartered in India, set up for the conservation of the seven big cats of the world.

The correct answer is clouded leopard. The Alliance was set up for the conservation of seven big cats, and the list runs lion, tiger, leopard, snow leopard, cheetah, jaguar and puma. The clouded leopard, although a wild cat found in parts of north-east India and South East Asia, does not appear on that list of seven. Options A and B are on the list and are the two cats of the Americas in it, which is one reason the Alliance reaches beyond Asia and Africa for its membership. Option D is on the list too and is the high-altitude cat of the Himalaya among the seven. A candidate should memorise the seven names together, because questions are often framed the other way round, asking which cat is included rather than which is left out.

The correct answer is Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam. Speaking to the officers, the minister pointed to initiatives that draw citizens into conservation work, and named this tree-planting drive alongside MISHTI, the Aravalli Green Wall and Nagar Van Yojana while listing India's gains in forest and tree cover, carbon sequestration, woodland and wetland conservation and the restoration of landscapes. Option A refers to a river rejuvenation programme and was not among the initiatives listed on this occasion. Option C is a groundwater programme and option D is a drinking water programme, and although both involve community participation, neither was named here. Keeping the four forestry initiatives together is the safest way to answer such a question, and they should be tied to the vision of Viksit Bharat@2047, which the minister said must bring economic development and ecological security into one frame.

The correct answer is 68 officers from 18 cadres. The course has that many participants, and the officers have come from eighteen different State cadres, which is why the ministry described the group as carrying a mix of field and policy experience ranging from wildlife conservation governance to climate-resilient forestry, habitat restoration and the working of environmental policy. Option A reduces both figures and matches nothing reported. Option C reverses the digits of the participant count and raises the cadre figure, a trap for a candidate who recalls the shape of the number but not its order. Option D is higher on both counts. It is also worth remembering the service bracket, since the course is designed for officers who have completed between seven and nine years of service, and the schedule, which runs from the twelfth of October to the sixth of November in 2026.

The correct answer is the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, abbreviated as IGNFA, which is conducting the nineteenth Phase-III course from the twelfth of October to the sixth of November in 2026 for sixty-eight officers drawn from eighteen cadres. Option A names the academy that trains civil servants of the administrative service and is not the body running this forestry course. Option C, the Forest Research Institute, is a research body and not the training academy named for this programme. Option D, the Wildlife Institute of India, works on wildlife research and training of a different kind, and while wildlife management is one of the themes of the visits planned under this course, the organiser is still the academy. Rajendra Prasad Khajuria is its Director and was present when the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change interacted with the participants in New Delhi.