Which body is the nodal agency for the Ministry of Mines' e-waste collection campaign under Special Campaign 6?

The correct answer is 2 October to 31 October 2026. Ministries and departments have said that the implementation phase of Special Campaign 6.0 covers exactly that month, beginning on Gandhi Jayanti and closing at the end of October, in line with the guidelines issued by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances. Option A is wrong because the second half of September 2026 was only the preparatory phase, used to identify pending VIP references, public grievances and grievance appeals, and no part of the drive was fixed for August. Option C is wrong because November belongs to the earlier round: Special Campaign 5.0 began in November 2025 and continued to August 2026, so November is when the previous edition opened rather than when this one runs. Option D is wrong because the campaign closes on 31 October and does not stretch to December; a three-month window has not been announced for this edition.

The correct answer is the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG). DARPG began this special campaign in 2021, framing a clean India as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, and decided to continue it in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and again in 2026; ministries implement each edition to its guidelines and report progress on the SCDPM Portal that DARPG maintains. Option A is wrong: the Department of Personnel and Training handles service matters and recruitment rules, and is not named as the authority behind this campaign. Option B is wrong because the Cabinet Secretariat coordinates business at the Cabinet level rather than issuing the parameters for pendency disposal and office cleanliness used here. Option D is wrong since the Department of Expenditure deals with public finance and spending controls, and had no role in setting out the campaign that departments are now preparing for.

The correct answer is 4,105. Reporting on the round it ran from November 2025 to August 2026, NITI Aayog said it had settled 4,105 public grievances, along with 127 PMO references, 34 grievance appeals and 5 Parliamentary Assurances, while freeing about 90 square feet of space. Option A is wrong because 340 is the count of MP references cleared by the water resources department under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, not grievances handled at NITI Aayog. Option B is wrong for the same reason: 3,878 is that department's figure for public grievances disposed of, a separate and larger tally from a separate organisation. Option D is wrong because 1,96,905 is not a count of cases at all; it is the amount in rupees that NITI Aayog realised by disposing of scrap during the campaign, and mixing the two figures is the trap here.

The correct answer is Mariyappan Thangavelu, who has won Paralympic medals three times in the high jump and whose shoes form part of the sporting memorabilia in this collection. Option B, Thulasimathi Murugesan, is wrong because her contribution is a signed badminton racket, and she is remembered for winning silver in badminton singles at the Paralympics. Option C, Nithya Sre Sivan, is wrong for a similar reason: the item linked to her is a badminton racket, and she won a medal at the Paralympics held in Paris. Option D is wrong because that table tennis player's equipment does not figure in the list of Tamil Nadu pieces described for this round of the auction. Note that all three genuine sports items belong to para athletes.

The correct answer is 31. That is the number of pieces from Tamil Nadu placed in this round of the auction, and together they are meant to show the state's spiritual traditions, classical art, craftsmanship, historical figures, textiles and sporting achievements. The other three numbers are invented and appear only to test recall of the exact figure. Among the thirty-one items are a framed auspicious footprint from Kanyakumari presented by the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, a memento of Sant Shri Ramanujacharya in a teaching pose, a handcrafted Thiruvalluvar Chariot, a metallic Nataraja statue, a Tanjore-style Veena artwork decorated with gold foil and Kundan stones, a brass memento depicting the Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple, and South Indian angavastras worked with zari and woven borders. Sporting memorabilia forms the other part of the same set, so a candidate who remembers the figure should also be able to name at least one art piece and one sports item from the state.