Which one of the following has launched the environmental project ‘Shaheed-e-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh Hariawal Lehar’?

Correct — C, Punjab. The Hariawal Lehar is a Punjab government campaign — the name is Punjabi, hariawal meaning greenery and lehar a wave, so the title reads as a green wave in the name of Bhagat Singh. It was launched to drive a large sapling-planting drive across the state, with targets set constituency by constituency and departments, schools and panchayats enlisted to plant and then look after the trees. Naming an environmental programme after Shaheed-e-Azam is itself the clue: Bhagat Singh is Punjab's own martyr, born at Banga in Lyallpur district to a family from Khatkar Kalan in Nawanshahr, and Punjab governments of every party have attached his name to state initiatives.

• (a)Uttar Pradesh — Uttar Pradesh runs its own large plantation drives, usually announced as single-day record attempts under the Van Mahotsav banner, and they do not carry this Punjabi title.
• (b)Madhya Pradesh — Madhya Pradesh's flagship greening effort has been the Narmada catchment plantation drive. Neither the name nor the language of this campaign belongs to the state.
• (d)Delhi — Delhi's environmental programmes are framed around air quality — the Graded Response Action Plan, anti-dust campaigns and its own tree-plantation drives — and are not named in Punjabi.

State-level environmental branding is a recurring source of one-line current-affairs questions, and the giveaway is almost always linguistic or biographical. A programme whose name is in Punjabi and honours Bhagat Singh belongs to Punjab; one named for the Narmada belongs to Madhya Pradesh; one built around particulate matter belongs to Delhi. Reading the name is faster than recalling the press release.

Punjab's forest cover is among the lowest of the Indian states as a share of area, a consequence of intensive irrigated agriculture across almost the whole of the plain, so plantation campaigns there are a standing policy priority rather than a one-off gesture. Anchor the answer to the exam: this was a live state campaign at the time of the 2025 paper. Targets and totals announced for such drives change from season to season, so it is the ownership of the campaign, not any particular sapling figure, that is worth carrying into the hall.

• Hariawal Lehar is a Punjab government environmental campaign named for Shaheed-e-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh.
• In Punjabi, hariawal means greenery and lehar means wave.
• The campaign is a state-wide sapling plantation drive with targets set for each assembly constituency.
• Bhagat Singh's ancestral village is Khatkar Kalan in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab.
• Punjab has one of the lowest shares of forest cover among Indian states, which is why plantation drives are a standing priority there.

• Ignoring the language of a scheme's name, which usually identifies the state.
• Assuming any campaign honouring a national figure must be a central government one.
• Carrying a sapling target as a fact; those numbers are revised every season.

A scheme-to-state item where the name itself carries the answer for anyone who reads it.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The ancestral village of Bhagat Singh, Khatkar Kalan, is in which state?

  • (a)Haryana
  • (b)Punjab
  • (c)Himachal Pradesh
  • (d)Rajasthan

  Answer(b) Punjab — in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district, formerly Nawanshahr.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The India State of Forest Report, which records forest cover state by state, is published by

  • (a)the Forest Survey of India
  • (b)the Botanical Survey of India
  • (c)the National Green Tribunal
  • (d)the Wildlife Institute of India

  Answer(a) the Forest Survey of India — a Dehradun-based organisation under the environment ministry.