Where is the AI-enabled Integrated Command and Control Centre of the Delhi Pollution Control Committee located?

The correct answer is 150. The Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, along with Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, flagged off 150 new electric buses at Swami Vivekanand ISBT in Anand Vihar under the Sewa Sankalp Abhiyaan, as part of the capital's push towards cleaner public transport. The other three options are plausible round numbers but none of them matches the announcement. On the same occasion the two leaders opened public electric vehicle charging stations at five locations, namely ISBT Anand Vihar and the bus depots at Nand Nagri, Rohini Sector-37, Nangloi and Keshopur, so that the new fleet has charging support across the city. They also inaugurated thirteen new Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations installed by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee, and reviewed pollution control measures at the Anand Vihar hotspot, where tasks had been assigned to eleven agencies.

The correct answer is 60. Delhi had forty-seven monitoring stations run by various agencies, among them the Delhi Pollution Control Committee, the Central Pollution Control Board, the India Meteorological Department, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology and the ministry dealing with housing and urban affairs. With thirteen new stations set up by the pollution control committee being inaugurated, the network grew to sixty stations. Option A is the number of stations before the new additions, so it is the earlier figure rather than the current one. Option B is simply the sum of a wrong pair of numbers and does not appear in the announcement, and option D is too high. The minister explained that besides the older population-based norms, monitoring now follows a grid of one station for every twenty-five square kilometres, and that this grid would be extended to other cities in the National Capital Region. Readings reach the public through the board's server and the SAMEER mobile application.

The correct answer is Rs 150 crore for five years, covering the period from 2023-24 to 2027-28. This is the initial contribution pledged by the Government of India to the Alliance, which is headquartered in this country and works for the conservation of seven big cats. The other options misstate either the amount or the span of the pledge, and a candidate should remember the two parts together, since examiners often keep the amount right and change the number of years. Along with the pledge, the figures worth carrying are the membership of 29 countries including India, the five countries that have opted to be observers and the eleven others that have agreed to join. Its early work includes two capacity-building programmes under the ITEC programme and the PRIME cat health programme for veterinary doctors from twenty countries.

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 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.