Which one of the following National Mission was not included in the National Climate Action Program ?
- (1)National Solar Mission
- (2)National Sustainable Habitat Mission
- (3)National Water Mission
- (4)National Health Mission
Correct — option (4), National Health Mission. The programme the question calls the 'National Climate Action Program' is India's National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC), released by the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change on 30 June 2008. NAPCC is built around exactly eight National Missions, and the question tests whether a candidate can recite that closed list precisely rather than assume any plausible-sounding 'National X Mission' belongs to it. The eight are: the National Solar Mission, the National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency, the National Mission on Sustainable Habitat, the National Water Mission, the National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem, the National Mission for Green India, the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture, and the National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change. Options (1), (2) and (3) — the National Solar Mission, the National Mission on Sustainable Habitat, and the National Water Mission — are three of these eight and are genuinely part of NAPCC. The National Health Mission, by contrast, is an entirely separate government programme: it is the umbrella health-sector scheme (bringing together the National Rural Health Mission launched in 2005 and the National Urban Health Mission launched in 2013) run under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to strengthen public healthcare delivery, and it has no place among NAPCC's eight climate missions. Because it shares the 'National ... Mission' naming pattern with the genuine NAPCC missions, it is an effective distractor for anyone who has only a vague sense of what NAPCC contains rather than the actual list of eight.
- (1)National Solar Mission — The National Solar Mission is one of the genuine eight NAPCC missions, aimed at promoting solar energy for power generation and other uses and at making India a leader in solar technology. Since it is actually part of NAPCC, it does not answer a 'which one was NOT included' question — including it as the answer would be selecting a mission that plainly belongs on the list.
- (2)National Sustainable Habitat Mission — This is the National Mission on Sustainable Habitat, one of the eight NAPCC missions, focused on improving energy efficiency in buildings, managing urban waste and promoting sustainable transport in cities. It is a genuine NAPCC mission, so it cannot be the 'not included' answer the question is asking for.
- (3)National Water Mission — The National Water Mission is likewise one of the eight NAPCC missions, aimed at conserving water, minimising wastage and ensuring more equitable distribution both across and within states through integrated water resource management. Being an actual member of the NAPCC list, it fails a 'which was NOT included' test just as (1) and (2) do.
The National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) is India's foundational domestic climate policy document, released on 30 June 2008 by the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. It set out a strategy built on eight National Missions, each assigned to a nodal ministry, spanning solar energy, energy efficiency, sustainable habitats, water conservation, protection of the Himalayan ecosystem, afforestation, sustainable agriculture, and climate knowledge-building. NAPCC was India's response to the need for a coordinated national framework ahead of international climate negotiations, and it remains the reference point against which India's later climate commitments — including its Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement — are often discussed.
MPSC frequently tests government schemes and missions by naming a plausible-sounding programme and asking whether it belongs to a specific list, which rewards memorising the exact composition of flagship policy documents rather than a general sense of 'climate-related' or 'national' programmes. The National Health Mission is a good example of the trap: it genuinely exists, genuinely operates at national scale, and genuinely uses the words 'National' and 'Mission', but it sits under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare addressing healthcare delivery, not under the climate policy architecture of NAPCC. Recognising that a scheme's subject-matter ministry does not match the list being tested is the key skill here.
- NAPCC was released on 30 June 2008 by the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change and comprises exactly eight National Missions.
- The eight NAPCC missions are: National Solar Mission, National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency, National Mission on Sustainable Habitat, National Water Mission, National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem, National Mission for Green India, National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture, and National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change.
- The National Health Mission is a separate scheme under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, formed by bringing the National Rural Health Mission (2005) and the National Urban Health Mission (2013) under one umbrella; it is not one of NAPCC's eight missions.
- Each NAPCC mission is coordinated by a designated nodal ministry — for instance, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy for the National Solar Mission and the Ministry of Water Resources for the National Water Mission.
Three are genuine NAPCC missions; only the Health Mission belongs to a different ministry.
- Assuming every scheme with 'National' and 'Mission' in its name belongs to the National Action Plan on Climate Change
- Confusing NAPCC's eight climate missions with unrelated flagship social-sector missions that share similar naming conventions
- Not knowing the exact count of eight missions and therefore being unable to spot which listed option is the odd one out
MPSC's environment and current-affairs section commonly lists three or four genuine components of a scheme alongside one plausible but unrelated programme and asks which one does not belong, which is exactly this question's format. The National Action Plan on Climate Change and its eight missions are a recurring reference point across MPSC and UPSC environment questions, so a precise, memorised list is high-value preparation.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which of the following is one of the eight National Missions under India's National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) ?
- (a)National Mission for Clean Ganga
- (b)National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem
- (c)National Digital Health Mission
- (d)National Livestock Mission
Answer(b) National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem — one of NAPCC's eight missions, aimed at conserving Himalayan biodiversity, glaciers and the mountain ecosystem in the face of climate change; the other three options are genuine schemes but are not part of NAPCC's eight-mission list.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) was released by the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change in which year ?
- (a)2005
- (b)2008
- (c)2010
- (d)2015
Answer(b) 2008 — NAPCC was released on 30 June 2008, setting out the eight National Missions that remain India's core domestic climate policy framework.