What is the new national event introduced in this edition of the campaign?

The correct answer is the fifth edition, written in official papers as SSSS v.5.0. The release says the campaign builds on its success over the last four years, which is the internal check an aspirant can apply: four earlier editions plus the one being launched makes this the fifth. Dr Jitendra Singh, Minister of State with Independent Charge for Earth Sciences, launched it, and the Ministry of Earth Sciences runs it. The week itself falls from 12 to 19 September 2026. Option B is the trap for anyone who counts only the completed editions and forgets to add the new one, and options A and D are placed on either side of the answer for the same reason. A safer way to hold the fact is through the official name: the campaign is styled 5.0, and the version number is the edition number.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Earth Sciences. The campaign is spearheaded by that ministry, and the minister who launched it, Dr Jitendra Singh, holds Earth Sciences as Minister of State with Independent Charge. The three wrong options are all ministries whose work touches the sea, the coast or cleanliness in some way, which is exactly why a candidate can be led astray; but none of them is named here. Two further links are worth carrying into the examination hall. The campaign draws on the Swachh Bharat vision for its cleanliness idea, and it draws on the Deep Ocean Mission, launched by the Prime Minister, for its ocean science idea. The ministry brings citizens, students, youth, coastal communities and volunteer organisations together for the drive under the banner of Jan Bhagidari, or public participation.

The correct answer is over 11,000 km. In his video message the Minister said India has one of the longest stretches of coastal area in the world, spanning more than that distance and extending from the eastern to the western parts of the country, and he used the figure to explain why a week-long national drive is worth running. Aspirants often carry an older coastline figure in memory from school textbooks, and option A is placed there precisely to catch that habit; for this question the number to reproduce is the one the Minister used in this launch. The rest of the campaign facts sit around it: the fifth edition, the dates of 12 to 19 September 2026, the Ministry of Earth Sciences as the organiser, clean-up drives at more than 100 locations and the first national Ocean Olympiad.

The correct answer is National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai. The drive at Digha was organised by the Ministry of Earth Sciences and coordinated nationwide by this institute, whose officials also joined the inaugural ceremony at the Marine Aquarium and Regional Centre. Option A, the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, did take part in the drive through its officials, but it was a participant rather than the coordinating body, which makes it the sharpest distractor in the set. Option C, the National Centre for Coastal Research, and option D, the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, are genuine marine research bodies that were not named in this announcement. Around 100 people joined the drive in all, among them college students and officials of the participating bodies, the India Meteorological Department and the Indian Coast Guard.

The correct answer is 19 September. The cleanup drive at Digha was described as a prelude to International Coastal Cleanup Day, to be observed on 19 September 2026, and the objective was to build wider awareness about marine pollution and to encourage practices that protect coastal and marine ecosystems. Option A, 5 June, is World Environment Day, and option B, 8 June, is World Oceans Day; both belong to the same broad family of environmental observances and are therefore the strongest distractors here. Option D is a nearby date offered to test precision. A useful way to keep the three days apart is to remember that June carries the two global environment and ocean days, while September carries the day devoted specifically to cleaning up coasts, which is why a cleanup drive was organised in the week leading up to it.