SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 16 September 2025, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 11 of 100

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Who launched the campaign "Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam " in 2024, encouraging citizens to plant trees in honor of their mothers and Mother Earth?

(a)Narendra Modi
(b)Leena Nandan
(c)Bhupender Yadav
(d)Ashwini Vaishnaw

Answer

Why

Correct — A. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam on World Environment Day, 5 June 2024, by planting a peepal tree at Buddha Jayanti Park in New Delhi.

The campaign asks each person to plant a tree in their mother's name, the tribute to mothers and Mother Earth that the stem describes.

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Leena Nandan — Leena Nandan is a civil servant who served as Secretary of the Environment Ministry. The campaign was launched by the Prime Minister, not by an official.
(c)
Bhupender Yadav — Bhupender Yadav was the Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change when the campaign began. The launch itself, on 5 June 2024, was the Prime Minister's.
(d)
Ashwini Vaishnaw — Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister for Railways and for Information and Broadcasting in 2024, did not launch this campaign. The Prime Minister did.

Concept

Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam ("a tree in mother's name") joins a personal gesture to a national planting drive. It began on World Environment Day 2024 with the Prime Minister's own planting in Delhi.

The campaign was carried forward the following year as Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam 2.0.

Key facts

Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam was launched on 5 June 2024, World Environment Day.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched it by planting a peepal tree at Buddha Jayanti Park, New Delhi.
World Environment Day is observed on 5 June each year.

Study next

World Environment Day and its yearly themesMission LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment)Government plantation schemes such as MISHTI for mangroves

Common traps

Choosing the Environment Minister because the campaign is about trees, when the launch was the Prime Minister's.

Launch questions ask who began a campaign, and when. A World Environment Day launch is also the subject of 26 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.17 (Amrit Dharohar, 2023).

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