Which State is the largest cumulative recipient of the latest ABS proceeds across the four crops?

The correct answer is ₹8.23 crore. The release records that the Authority sanctioned that amount in ABS proceeds to 27 State Biodiversity Boards and 5 Union Territory Biodiversity Councils, arising from access to biological resources of four vegetable crops. Option C is the classic trap in this item, because ₹200 crore is also in the release, but it is the cumulative figure: the Authority's total ABS disbursement since the framework began has now crossed ₹200 crore, and the ₹8.23 crore is only the latest instalment inside that total. Options B and D simply move the decimal point or reverse the digits, a favourite trick of paper setters with money figures. Keep the pair together while revising: ₹200 crore cumulative, ₹8.23 crore in this round. Remember also that the money came from three seed companies which had accessed bitter gourd, okra, chilli and onion resources for research and commercial use.

The correct answer is Section 32(2) of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002. The release states that the boards and councils are required to spend the funds on the activities listed in that provision, and it lists them: documentation and updating of People's Biodiversity Registers, conservation of biological resources both in their natural habitat and outside it, restoration of degraded ecosystems, strengthening of Biodiversity Heritage Sites, capacity building of Biodiversity Management Committees, and improvement of community livelihoods. Options A, C and D name well-known environmental laws of India, and each is the kind of answer a candidate reaches for when the exact statute has slipped from memory, but the ABS framework sits entirely within the Biological Diversity Act. Link the whole chain in your notes: the Act of 2002 creates the National Biodiversity Authority, the State Biodiversity Boards and the Biodiversity Management Committees, and the same Act carries the access and benefit-sharing provisions that this disbursement follows.

The correct answer is 'Story of Jatayu: Saving India's Vulture'. The release says this coffee table book was brought out during the inaugural session at Panchkula. It records the country's vulture conservation story, moving from a falling population to a working conservation breeding programme built around the centre at Pinjore. Options B, C and D are invented titles and appear nowhere in the release. Books and reports released at government events are asked about very often, so note the title along with the occasion and the person releasing it. Alongside the book, a prize distribution was held for an online drawing competition and a digital photography competition on vulture conservation. The Minister used the occasion to press for more Vulture Safe Zones, for vulture-safe veterinary practices, for a supply of safe food, and for the technical capacity that species recovery in the wild will need.

The correct answer is Haryana. Pinjore lies in Haryana, and the centre there is described in the release as a joint initiative of the Haryana Forest Department and the Bombay Natural History Society. The Union Minister began the day with a visit to this facility before the workshop at Panchkula, which is also in Haryana. Options A, B and D name neighbouring States, and that geographical closeness is exactly what makes them plausible distractors in an examination hall. Two supporting details help fix the answer. First, the State's own Environment, Forest and Wildlife Minister, Rao Narbir Singh, spoke at the event and highlighted the work of the Pinjore centre. Second, he argued that conservation breeding should be judged not by the number of animals born but by healthy, genetically managed populations, scientific knowledge, technical capacity and recovery of the species in the wild.

The correct answer is 356. The release records that the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre at Pinjore housed that many vultures during 2025-26 and bred 35 chicks successfully in the same period. The rest of the centre's year is worth memorising with it, because any one line of it can be turned into a question: 87 vultures were released or contributed for reintroduction, 90 birds were transferred to other conservation-breeding institutions, and 1,222 participants from 22 institutions were trained there. Options A, C and D are near-miss figures that do not appear anywhere in the release. Remember also what the centre actually does: scientific husbandry, artificial incubation, veterinary care, breeding and genetic management, focused on the White-rumped, Long-billed and Slender-billed vultures. It is run jointly by the Haryana Forest Department and the Bombay Natural History Society.