Which initiative, piloted at Umri, Chaurawala and Narakoduru, won a WSIS Prize 2026 under Action Line C6?

The correct answer is 67 days. The rules, notified by the Department of Telecommunications under the Telecommunications Act, 2023, came into effect on 1 January 2025 and set up a uniform and transparent framework for laying telecom infrastructure, with rationalised charges and time-bound processing. The same rules allow only 7 days for special projects such as BharatNet, so the pair of numbers is what a paper setter will test. Options A, B and C are round figures of the kind that feel right for a government timeline and are therefore planted as distractors; none of them appears in the rules. Two related facts are worth carrying along: 34 States and Union Territories have issued orders asking local bodies and line departments to follow these rules, and all 36 are live on the Central Right of Way Portal.

The correct answer is 25,367 mobile towers, covering 35,771 villages and locations across the country. These projects are funded through the Digital Bharat Nidhi and are meant to carry 4G service into remote and uncovered places that telecom operators had not reached because the commercial case was weak, so the spending bridges a digital divide rather than chasing revenue. The indigenous 4G stack has been deployed by BSNL in the 4G Saturation Project that goes with it. Options A, C and D change the leading digits of the real figure and are the standard trap. Note how easily the two numbers in this item can be swapped: 25,367 is the count of towers and 35,771 is the count of villages and locations covered, and a question may reverse them to see whether a candidate is reading carefully.

The correct answer is 2 October 2026. The department marked Swachh Bharat Diwas on that day with an e-waste disposal drive led by the Secretary at its headquarters in the CGO Complex in Delhi, where officers were urged to identify and dispose of obsolete items and unserviceable material both at work and at home. Option A, 1 October 2026, is the date of a different activity, the one-hour mass cleanliness drive named Ek Din, Ek Ghanta, Ek Saath held in a public park near the JLN Metro Station and followed by sapling plantation under Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam. Option C is within the preparatory phase and option D is the closing date of the campaign, neither of which matches. The department also held a waste-to-art activity called Kabbad Se Kala on the theme Swachhata Se Samridhi.

The correct answer is Rs 39,33,055. The figure came from the disposal of electronic waste together with non-electronic scrap, and it sits alongside a set of other targets fixed in the preparatory phase: the review of 18,741 electronic files and 7,773 physical files, cleanliness and space-clearing work at 156 sites, the release of 46,486 square feet of usable space, and the disposal of 1,694 items of e-waste. Options A, C and D are amounts that were not reported. The department framed the exercise as creating both financial value for the public exchequer and usable space for government offices, and progress is being recorded through before-and-after photographs uploaded to the SCDPM portal. Candidates should learn these figures as one cluster, since the campaign is reported department by department.

The correct answer is 2 to 31 October 2026. That is the implementation period announced by the government for the sixth edition of the special campaign, under which departments clear pendency, manage records and dispose of electronic waste. Option A names the preparatory phase, which ran from 15 to 30 September 2026 and was used to set targets rather than to implement them, so it is a careful distractor. Options C and D give periods that were not announced. In the case of the Department of Biotechnology, the drive is being carried out along with its scientific cadre units, divisions, autonomous institutions and public sector undertakings, and the Secretary along with the Joint Secretary who serves as nodal officer is reviewing progress. The campaign itself is coordinated by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances.