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The correct answer is 2015.

Key Points

• The Smart Cities Mission was launched by the Government of India in 2015.
• The initiative aims to promote sustainable and inclusive cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life to their citizens.
• It focuses on sustainable and inclusive development by creating replicable models which act like lighthouses to other aspiring cities.
• The mission targets the development of smart solutions that leverage digital and information technologies, urban planning best practices, public-private partnerships, and policy changes.

Additional Information

• Smart Cities Mission
  • It is an urban renewal and retrofitting program by the Government of India with the mission to develop smart cities across the country, making them citizen-friendly and sustainable.
  • The Smart Cities Mission was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 25, 2015.
  • The goal is to promote sustainable and inclusive cities that provide core infrastructure, a clean and sustainable environment, and give a decent quality of life to their citizens.
  • The mission focuses on sustainable and inclusive development by creating replicable models which act like lighthouses to other aspiring cities.
  • The mission is operated as a centrally sponsored scheme and the central government has allocated Rs. 48,000 crore for the development of 100 smart cities.
• Key Features of Smart Cities
  • Smart Mobility: Efficient and sustainable transport system, smart traffic management, and public transportation.
  • Smart Environment: Sustainable waste management, pollution control, and green spaces.
  • Smart Governance: E-governance, citizen participation, and digital services.
  • Smart Economy: Digital economy, innovation hubs, and entrepreneurship support.
  • Smart Living: High quality of life, health, education, and safety services.
• Implementation Strategy
  • The strategy involves area-based development and city-wide smart solutions.
  • Area-based development includes retrofitting, redevelopment, and greenfield development.
  • City-wide smart solutions involve the application of smart solutions to existing city-wide infrastructure.
  • The implementation of the mission is through Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) created for each city.

Answer: (B) To promote economic empowerment, safety, and security of women through entrepreneurship

Key Points

• She Taxi is a flagship project of the Gender Park, Government of Kerala, initiated as a public-private partnership (PPP).
• It aims at promoting sustainable entrepreneurship among women, ensuring their economic empowerment.
• The project focuses on enhancing safety and security for women both as drivers and passengers.
• It started with five women entrepreneurs in Trivandrum and became fully operational on December 1, 2013.
• The initiative required minimal government investment, leveraging partnerships with private sector agencies.

Important Points

• She Taxi reflects Kerala’s innovative approach to women’s empowerment and safety.
• It encourages women to become entrepreneurs in the transport sector, traditionally male-dominated.
• The service addresses both employment and safety concerns for women in urban transport.
• This model promotes gender inclusivity and economic independence for women.

Answer: (A) Only 1, 2, and 3

Key Points

• Regional Dowry Prohibition Officers are responsible for public awareness campaigns on dowry prohibition.
• They conduct supervision checks and inquiries to detect violations of the Dowry Prohibition Act.
• They maintain detailed registers of complaints, inquiries, and related information.
• They accept complaints from aggrieved persons as well as other persons or organizations, so statement 4 is incorrect.
• They also serve as Member Secretary of the Advisory Board related to dowry prohibition.

Important Points

• Awareness programs help educate the public to reduce dowry practices.
• Maintaining records ensures transparency and accountability in complaint handling.
• Officers play a crucial role in enforcement and prevention under the Dowry Prohibition Act.
• The role extends beyond complaint registration to proactive monitoring and advisory functions.

Answer: (A) Only 1, 2, and 4

Key Points

• Domestic violence is broadly defined to include various forms of abuse (physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, economic) causing harm or danger to the aggrieved person’s health or wellbeing.
• The aggrieved person includes the wife or any sexual partner, regardless of marriage, as well as women related or residing with the respondent.
• Complaints can be lodged by any person with reason to believe domestic violence is occurring, not just the aggrieved person, so statement 3 is incorrect.
• Magistrates have authority to grant residence rights to the aggrieved woman and prevent eviction by the husband.
• Monetary relief and maintenance payments can be imposed by the Magistrate.
• Breach of protection orders can lead to imprisonment up to one year, a fine up to Rs. 20,000, or both.
• Courts must begin proceedings within 3 days of complaint and dispose cases within 60 days for speedy justice.

Important Points

• The Act provides a comprehensive protective framework for women facing domestic violence.
• It recognizes different forms of abuse beyond physical violence, acknowledging emotional and economic harms.
• The provision allowing any person to lodge complaints expands access to justice.
• The speedy trial mechanism ensures timely relief and resolution of cases.
• The Act empowers judicial officers to provide interim and final relief including residence rights and monetary compensation.

Answer: (A) Only 1, 2, and 4

Key Points

• Women empowerment initiatives by the Department of Social Justice focus on economic, social, and political empowerment through varied programmes.
• The Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Policy emphasizes mutual respect and equal access to resources and opportunities for both sexes.
• The policy promotes equal access, not unequal access, making statement 3 incorrect.
• The goal is harmonious coexistence and equal partnership of women and men in all development processes.

Important Points

• Vanithanayam 2024 reflects Kerala’s ongoing commitment to enhancing the status of women socially, economically, and politically.
• Gender sensitization and awareness programmes challenge social norms to empower women.
• Equal participation ensures sustainable and inclusive development benefiting the entire society.
• The policy aligns with national and international commitments on gender equality and women’s rights.

The correct answer is 2003.

Key Points

• The Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) is a national government scheme that attempts to address inequities in the availability of affordable healthcare facilities across the country.
• The scheme was first launched in the year 2003.
• The scheme was approved in March 2006.
• The first phase in the PMSSY consists of two components:

1. Setting up of six institutions in the line of AIIMS.
   • Bihar (Patna).
   • Chattisgarh (Raipur).
   • Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal).
   • Orissa (Bhubaneswar).
   • Rajasthan (Jodhpur).
   • Uttaranchal (Rishikesh) 
2. Upgradation of 13 existing Government medical college institutions.

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is the nodal agency of Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana.

The correct answer is Gujarat.

Key Points

• Gujarat is the first State in India to achieve 100% electrification of households.
• All 18,065 villages of Gujarat state have now access to a three-phase uninterrupted electric supply.
• Jyotigram Yojana is an initiative of the Gujarat government throughout the state.
• Jyotigram Yojana was launched in 2006 by the then Chief minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi.
• Andhra Pradesh is the second state in the country to achieve 100% electrification of households.

Additional Information

• Gurjaram is the old name of Gujarat.
• Gujarat has the longest coastline in India.
• Asia's first commercial wind farm is located at Mandvi in Gujarat.
• Historic sea coast Dandi is located in Gujarat.
• The first four-line express highway in India was established in Gujarat.
• Madhya Pradesh has the largest forest cover in India.
• The longest natural cave in India 'Krem Liat Prah' is in Meghalaya.

The correct answer is August 2021.

Key Points

• National Hydrogen Mission (NHM)
  • Prime Minister launched the National Hydrogen Mission on India’s 75th Independence Day i.e. 15th August 2021.
  • The Mission aims to aid the government in meeting its climate targets and making India a green hydrogen hub.
  • This will help in meeting the target of production of 5 million tonnes of Green hydrogen by 2030 and the related development of renewable energy capacity.
  • Hydrogen and Ammonia are envisaged to be the future fuels to replace fossil fuels.
  • Production of these fuels by using power from renewable energy termed green hydrogen and green ammonia is one of the major requirements for the environmentally sustainable energy security of the nation.
  • The government of India is taking various measures to facilitate the transition from fossil fuel-based feedstocks to green hydrogen / green ammonia.
  • This policy is one of the major steps in this endeavor.
• Significance of the National Hydrogen Mission
  1. This will reduce dependence on fossil fuels and also reduce crude oil imports.
  2. The objective also is for our country to emerge as an export Hub for Green Hydrogen and Green Ammonia. 
  3. The implementation of this Policy will provide clean fuel to the common people of the country.
  4. The production of renewable energy (RE) in the form of RE will be the basic ingredient in making green hydrogen.
  5. This in turn will help in meeting the international commitments for clean energy.

Additional Information

• Type of Hydrogen
  • Grey Hydrogen: It is extracted from hydrocarbons (fossil fuels, natural gas).
  • Blue Hydrogen: It is manufactured from natural gas
  • Brown Hydrogen: It is manufactured using Coal without carbon sequestration.
  • Green Hydrogen: Generated from renewable energy (like Solar, Wind).

The correct answer is option 1.

Key Points

• NAMASTE is National Action for Mechanized Sanitation Ecosystem.
• It was jointly launched by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in 2022.
• It aims to eradicate unsafe sewer and septic tank cleaning practices.
• Union budget 2023-24 has allocated Rs 100 crore for NAMASTE scheme.

Additional Information

• Objectives of Namaste scheme: 
  • All sanitation works performed by skilled workers.
  • Zero deaths in sanitation work.
  • No sanitation worker come in contact with human faecal matters.
  • Strengthening Urban local bodies in protecting the santitation workers.
  • Increase awareness in sanitation workers to seek services from skilled and registered sanitation workers.

The correct answer is SMILE

Key Points

• SMILE - ''support for marginalized individuals for livelihood and enterprise'. 
• About the scheme:
  • ​It is a central sector scheme for Beggars and Transgenders.
  • It provides for the use of existing shelter homes for rehabilitation of the persons engaged in begging.
  • The scheme is formulated by the Ministry of social justice and empowerment.

The correct answer is Odisha.

• Aahar:
  • It is a cheap meal scheme launched by Odisha in 2015.
  • It is a subsidized food program aimed at providing meals at Rs. 5 to the urban poor.
  • The Aahar scheme is being sponsored by Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC) in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar, Odisha Power Generation Corporation (OPGC) in Rourkela, and Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO) in Sambalpur.

Additional Information

• Uttar Pradesh:
  • It shares a boundary with a maximum number of Indian states. 
  • It shares its border with Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar as well as Delhi.
  • Yogi Adityanath is the CM of Uttar Pradesh.
  • Anandiben Patel is the governor of Uttar Pradesh.
• New Delhi:
  • New Delhi is situated on the banks of the River Yamuna.
  • Delhi is surrounded on all sides by Haryana except the east, where it borders Uttar Pradesh.
  • The current Lt. Governor of Delhi is Vinai Kumar Saxena.
  • Arvind Kejriwal is the current CM of Delhi.
• Rajasthan:
  • Jaipur is a famous city and capital of Rajasthan.
  • Ashok Gehlot is the current CM of Rajasthan.
  • Kalraj Mishra is the current governor of Rajasthan.
  • Rajasthan shares its borders with Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh.
• Odisha:
  • Jharkhand, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh are the border states of Odisha.
  • Naveen Patnaik is the current CM of Odisha.
  • Ganeshi Lal is the current governor of Odisha.
  • Bhubaneswar is the capital of Odisha.

The correct answer is 2016.

 Key Points

• ​Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana’ launched in 2016.
• Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) aims to safeguard the health of women & children by providing them with a clean cooking fuel – LPG, so that they don’t have to compromise their health in smoky kitchens or wander in unsafe areas collecting firewood.
• Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana was launched by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on May 1st, 2016 in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh.
• Under this scheme, 5 Cr LPG connections will be provided to BPL families with a support of Rs.1600 per connection in the next 3 years.
• Ensuring women’s empowerment, especially in rural India, the connections will be issued in the name of women of the households. Rs. 8000 Cr. has been allocated towards the implementation of the scheme.
• Identification of the BPL families will be done through Socio-Economic Caste Census Data.

The correct answer is social welfare benefits.

Key Points

• Shri Manoj Joshi, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) launched the ‘SVANidhi se Samriddhi’ program.
• ‘SVANidhi se Samriddhi’, an further program of PMSVANidhi was launched on 4th January 2021 in 125 cities in Phase 1, covering approximately 35 Lakh Street vendors.
• MoHUA has been executing Prime Minister Street Vendors AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi), a Central Sector Scheme since 1st June 2020. The scheme strives to provide an affordable working capital loan to Street Vendors
• ‘‘SVANidhi se Samriddhi’ program was started to provide social safety benefits to street vendors for their holistic development and socio-economic upliftment.

Additional Information

• Union Minister of MoHUA - Shri Hardeep Singh Puri
• Other Important schemes launched by Central and States Govt.
  • AYURSWASTHYA Yojana - - Ministry of Ayush
  • Ladli Laxmi 2.0 - Madhya Pradesh
  • Friends of Library - Tamil Nadu
  • One District One Sport - Uttar Pradesh

The correct answer is 2018.

Key Points

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana from Ranchi in Jharkhand on 23rd September 2018.
• Over two crore people have availed treatment under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana.
• The scheme, which is the world's largest health care program, provides a cover of up to Rs. 5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization to over 10.74 crore poor and vulnerable families.
• It helps to reduce hospital expenditure and mitigate financial risk.
• It provides cashless and paperless access to services for the beneficiaries at the point of service.

Additional Information

• The insurance cost is shared by the centre and the state mostly in the ratio of 60:40.
• There are about 1,400 packaged rates for various medical procedures under the scheme.
• These packaged rates also mention the number of average days of hospitalization for a medical procedure and supporting documents that are needed.
• Under no circumstances can hospitals charge the beneficiary.
• The scheme also has prescribed a daily limit for medical management.
• National Health Agency has been constituted as an autonomous entity under the Society Registration Act, 1860 for effective implementation of PMJAY in alliance with state governments.
• This includes the formulation of PMJAY policies, development of operational guidelines, implementation mechanisms, coordination with state governments, and monitoring and oversight of PMJAY amongst others.

The correct answer is People’s Protected Areas.

Key Points

• People’s Protected Areas:
  • This initiative supports the efforts of local and grassroots NGOs promoting innovative mechanisms to enhance local livelihoods for communities living in and around Protected Areas (PAs).
  • It was launched with the primary objective of biodiversity conservation.
  • It is related to enriching forested areas with medicinal plants.

Additional Information

• Lok Vaniki Mission:
  • The Lok Vaniki scheme aims at empowering the farmers to manage their degraded forestland so as to derive maximum benefits by selling its products, including timber.