Which of the following State governments has launched a scheme ‘Ankur’ in May 2021 to promote planting of trees in public, wherein people will be awarded for planting and taking care of the saplings?

Correct — D. Ankur is a Madhya Pradesh government scheme, announced in May 2021 for the monsoon planting season.

Citizens register on the state's Vayudoot app, upload a photograph while planting a sapling, and upload a second photograph after looking after it for 30 days.

Entries are then verified and selected participants from each district are given the Pranvayu Award. That reward-for-planting design is exactly what the stem describes, and it belongs to option (d).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  West Bengal — Nothing named Ankur belongs to West Bengal. The scheme's two identifiers, registration on the Vayudoot app and a district-level Pranvayu Award, are Madhya Pradesh's.
• (b)
  Bihar — Bihar runs its own large environment and tree-planting drive under the Jal-Jeevan-Hariyali campaign. Ankur, with its app registration and Pranvayu Award, is a separate Madhya Pradesh programme.
• (c)
  Uttarakhand — Uttarakhand attracts tree-related guesses because of the Chipko movement, but Chipko was a 1970s forest-protection agitation, not a state award scheme, and Ankur is Madhya Pradesh's.

State schemes are recall items, and the handle that works is the package of names each one carries: the scheme, the app and the award.

Ankur, launched by Madhya Pradesh in May 2021, is built on public participation. Plant a sapling during the monsoon, register on the Vayudoot app, photograph the planting, and photograph the sapling again after 30 days of care.

Verified planters from each district then receive the Pranvayu Award. The design puts the burden of proof on the citizen rather than on a forest department target.

Key facts

• Ankur was launched by the Madhya Pradesh government in May 2021 to reward citizens for planting trees during the monsoon.
• Participants register on the Vayudoot app and upload one photograph at planting and another after 30 days of care.
• Selected participants from each district of the state receive the Pranvayu Award.
• Madhya Pradesh has the largest forest cover by area among Indian states.

Common traps

• Attaching the scheme to a Himalayan state simply because the subject is trees
• Remembering the award name, Pranvayu, without the state that gives it

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