Which Metro system is the world's first completely green Metro system?
- A.Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway
- B.Singapore Mass Rapid Transit
- C.Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
- D.London Underground
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. The Delhi Metro was the first metro and rail based system in the world to be certified by the United Nations for earning carbon credits, because its regenerative braking returns electricity to the grid each time a train slows. It also built solar plants at its stations and depots and uses rainwater harvesting and green buildings, which is why it is described as the first completely green metro.
Option A, the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway, and option B, the Singapore Mass Rapid Transit, are both older and efficient systems but did not take the carbon credit route first. Option D, the London Underground, opened in 1863 and is the oldest underground railway in the world, which makes it the natural trap for a candidate who reads first as oldest. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation itself was set up in 1995 and its first stretch opened in December 2002.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich Constitutional Amendment Act gave Delhi a Legislative Assembly and named it the National Capital Territory?
- A.The Sixty-ninth Amendment Act, 1991
- B.The Seventy-third Amendment Act, 1992
- C.The Sixty-first Amendment Act, 1988
- D.The Seventy-fourth Amendment Act, 1992
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It inserted Articles 239AA and 239AB into the Constitution, renamed the union territory of Delhi as the National Capital Territory of Delhi and gave it a legislative assembly and a council of ministers, with the arrangement coming into force in February 1992.
Read the full explanation →How many seats does the Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi have?
- A.60
- B.70
- C.90
- D.40
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The Delhi Legislative Assembly has seventy seats, all filled by direct election, and the Council of Ministers may not be larger than a tenth of that strength, which means at most seven ministers including the Chief Minister.
Read the full explanation →The shifting of the capital of British India from Calcutta to Delhi was announced at the Delhi Durbar of
- A.1877
- B.1903
- C.1911
- D.1919
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At the Delhi Durbar held on 12 December 1911, King George V, who had come to India for his coronation durbar, announced that the capital of British India would be moved from Calcutta to Delhi.
Read the full explanation →New Delhi as a planned capital city was designed mainly by
- A.Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker
- B.Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret
- C.Charles Correa and B V Doshi
- D.Otto Koenigsberger and Albert Mayer
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After the 1911 announcement the two British architects planned the new capital, Lutyens designing the Viceroy's House, now Rashtrapati Bhavan, and laying out the central vista, while Baker designed the two Secretariat blocks on Raisina Hill and the circular Council House that became Parliament House.
Read the full explanation →Which monument of Delhi was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2007?
- A.Qutub Minar
- B.Humayun's Tomb
- C.Red Fort Complex
- D.Jantar Mantar
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Shah Jahan built the fort between 1639 and 1648 as the citadel of his new capital Shahjahanabad, and it was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2007.
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