Which of the following is NOT correctly matched?
Institute - Location

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Correct — C is the pair that is NOT correctly matched. The Central Agroforestry Research Institute (ICAR-CAFRI, formerly the National Research Centre for Agroforestry) is located at Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh, not at Banda — so 'Central Agro-Forestry Research Institute — Banda' is the wrong match. The other three pairs are correct: the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF / World Agroforestry Centre) is headquartered in Nairobi; the Indian Institute of Forest Management is at Bhopal; and the Tata Energy Research Institute (now The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI) is at New Delhi.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Correctly matched, so not the answer — the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (World Agroforestry Centre) is indeed headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.  (b) Correctly matched — the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) is located at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.  (d) Correctly matched — the Tata Energy Research Institute (now The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI) is headquartered at New Delhi.

Concept: This is a 'find the odd pair' item on where research institutes are located. Anchor on agroforestry — integrating trees with crops and livestock: it has a global centre (ICRAF, the World Agroforestry Centre, at Nairobi) and India's national institute, ICAR-CAFRI at Jhansi (UP), which was set up as the National Research Centre for Agroforestry in 1988 and upgraded to CAFRI in 2014.

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