Which village did the Union Minister of Jal Shakti visit for the Special Gram Sabha on Swachh Bharat Diwas 2026?

The correct answer is an annual digital self-assessment carried out by a Gram Panchayat. The framework lets a panchayat judge its own sanitation work each year, and it was taken up in the Special Gram Sabhas, above all in ODF Plus (Model) Gram Panchayats; the Joint Secretary and Mission Director of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) made a presentation on it at Majigam. Option A is wrong because it is not an award given from the centre to a district; it is an exercise the panchayat performs on itself. Option C is wrong on two counts, since the framework belongs to the rural arm of the mission and is not a survey of urban toilets. Option D is wrong because no vehicle subsidy was announced; what the sabhas reviewed were the results of Swachhata Hi Seva 2026, the four-way segregation of waste at source required by the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026, and the listing of bulk waste generators.

The correct answer is Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam, the plantation drive under which Shri C. R. Patil and the Joint Secretary and Mission Director of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) planted trees at Majigam. The same drive was followed at the sabhas in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Jharkhand and Haryana, where plantation accompanied the honouring of sanitation workers and the Swachhata pledge. Option A, Van Mahotsav, is the long-standing tree-planting week of July and was not the drive named here. Option C, Harit Bharat Abhiyan, is a plausible-sounding title but no such drive figures in the day's programme. Option D, Nagar Van Yojana, concerns urban forests and city green spaces, which is not what the Gram Sabhas in villages were doing. Remember the drive along with the Waste to Art exhibit and the Swachhata pledge taken by everyone present.

The correct answer is 2027-28. The Special Gram Sabhas opened the People's Plan Campaign, and the plans the Panchayats will draw up under it are for the financial year 2027-28, which is the year after the campaign year itself. Option B, 2026-27, is the year of the campaign rather than the year of the plans, and the gap between the two is the single most common slip on this story, which is why that option is placed here. Option A, 2025-26, lies in the past and cannot be a planning year for a campaign now beginning. Option D, 2028-29, runs a year beyond the plans under preparation. More than 2.55 lakh Gram Panchayats prepare these participatory plans and upload them on the eGramSwaraj portal, while the Panchayat Advancement Index helps each one identify its achievements and its gaps, so candidates should learn the campaign year and the plan year as a pair.

The correct answer is Rs 4,35,236 crore. This is the amount the Sixteenth Finance Commission has recommended for Rural Local Bodies for the award period 2026-31, and it marks an increase of nearly 84 per cent over what the Fifteenth Finance Commission provided, with the annual per capita grant rising from about Rs 400 to nearly Rs 950. Options A, B and D are each wrong because they change the leading digit of the award while keeping the rest of it intact, which is the standard way a paper setter builds distractors around a large figure. Candidates should therefore learn the whole number rather than its shape, and should pair it with the award period and with the percentage increase, since a question may ask for any one of the three. The per capita figures are worth remembering as well, because they convert the headline award into a number a student can picture.

The correct answer is Sabki Yojana, Sabka Vikas, the title of the People's Plan Campaign for the year, under which Panchayats will prepare their Panchayat Development Plans for the financial year that follows. Option B, Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan, is wrong as the answer, though it is a real programme of the same ministry: under it training and capacity building are supported across nine themes of local development, but it was not the campaign launched at these sittings. Option C, Swachhata Hi Seva, is wrong because that cleanliness campaign was drawing to a close at the time rather than beginning, and it belongs to the sanitation effort and not to Panchayat planning. Option D, Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari, is wrong in the same way, being a water conservation effort that featured in the discussions rather than the campaign being inaugurated. Candidates should attach the slogan to the planning campaign and remember that it is led by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj.