Who presided over the National Level Technical Committee meeting held under the REWARD programme?
- A.The Deputy Director General (NRM) of ICAR
- B.Dr Chandra Shekhar Kumar, CEO of the NRAA
- C.The Joint Secretary (Watershed Management), Department of Land Resources
- D.The Commissioner of the Watershed Development Department, Karnataka
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Explanation
The correct answer is Dr Chandra Shekhar Kumar, Chief Executive Officer of the National Rainfed Area Authority. The release names him as presiding over the meeting and records his instruction that claims in the draft guidelines be validated against data actually collected under the programme. The Deputy Director General for natural resource management at ICAR is wrong; he attended and spoke on integrating the land resource inventory with hydrology, but did not preside. The Joint Secretary for watershed management in the Department of Land Resources is wrong as well; his contribution was the suggestion to shorten the time taken to prepare detailed project reports. The Commissioner of the watershed department in Karnataka is wrong because he joined the meeting online as a state participant. Aspirants should remember who said what, since questions on such meetings often attach a specific proposal to the wrong officer.
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Practice Questions
What is the full form of the REWARD programme under which the NRAA held its technical committee meeting?
- A.Rejuvenating Watersheds for Agricultural Resilience through Innovative Development
- B.Renewing Water Resources for Agriculture and Rural Development
- C.Restoring Ecology, Water and Rainfed Drylands
- D.Rural Employment through Watershed and Rainfed Development
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The second option is wrong; it is built from plausible words but does not match the expansion, and in particular it drops the idea of resilience, which is central to the programme's purpose.
Read the full explanation →Under which scheme component will the National Technical Guidelines being prepared by the NRAA be used?
- A.Watershed Development Component of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana 3.0
- B.Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
- C.National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture
- D.Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana
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The release states that the guidelines under preparation will be used for future generation watershed development in the country under that component, which is why the meeting spent its time on validating claims in the draft and on data from the two participating states.
Read the full explanation →Since ethanol supply year 2014-15, how much foreign exchange has the ethanol blending programme saved?
- A.More than Rs 62,000 crore
- B.More than Rs 1.01 lakh crore
- C.More than Rs 1.66 lakh crore
- D.More than Rs 1.97 lakh crore
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The ministry listed four cumulative outcomes of the blending programme since ethanol supply year 2014-15: foreign exchange savings above that amount, substitution of about 316 lakh metric tonnes of crude oil, avoidance of about 952 lakh metric tonnes of carbon dioxide, and transfers of more than Rs 1.66 lakh crore…
Read the full explanation →What ethanol content was recorded on average in the samples tested in Karnataka?
- A.19.30 per cent
- B.21.50 per cent
- C.26 per cent
- D.31 per cent
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All 56 samples tested in Karnataka, taken from different locations and from all three oil marketing companies, conformed to the prescribed specification, with ethanol content ranging between 19 and 20 per cent and averaging that figure.
Read the full explanation →Which Bureau of Indian Standards specification applies to ethanol-blended motor gasoline?
- A.IS 1460
- B.IS 2796
- C.IS 17021
- D.IS 15607
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This is the Bureau of Indian Standards specification for ethanol-blended motor gasoline, and E20 petrol supplied by the three public sector oil marketing companies across the country is required to conform to it.
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