SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 16 September 2025, Shift 3 · General Awareness · Question 11 of 75

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Which campaign did Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan promote on World Environment Day 2025?

(a)Plastic-Free India Campaign
(b)Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam 2.0 tree-planting
(c)Clean Ganga Youth Movement
(d)National Coastal Cleanup Drive

Answer

Why

Correct — B. On 5 June 2025, World Environment Day, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam 2.0.

It is the second edition of the tree-planting campaign PM Narendra Modi launched in 2024, which asks people to plant a tree in their mother's name → option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Plastic-Free India Campaign — Ending plastic pollution was the global theme of World Environment Day 2025, which makes this tempting. The campaign Pradhan launched that day was a tree-planting drive.
(c)
Clean Ganga Youth Movement — A Ganga youth movement was not what Pradhan launched on 5 June 2025. His launch that day was Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam 2.0, a tree-planting drive.
(d)
National Coastal Cleanup Drive — A coastal cleanup is not what the Education Minister launched on World Environment Day 2025. His campaign was about planting trees, one in each mother's name.

Concept

Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam, plant a tree in your mother's name, was launched by PM Narendra Modi in 2024.

On World Environment Day 2025 the Education Minister launched its 2.0 edition, a second round of the same tree-planting drive.

The theme of World Environment Day 2025 was ending plastic pollution, with South Korea as host. The question asks what the minister promoted, not the day's theme.

Key facts

PM Narendra Modi launched Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam in 2024.
Dharmendra Pradhan launched Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam 2.0 on World Environment Day, 5 June 2025.
World Environment Day 2025 was hosted by South Korea on the theme of ending plastic pollution.

Study next

Mission LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment)World Environment Day themes and hosts, 2023 to 2025Namami Gange and other river-conservation programmes

Common traps

Picking the plastic option from the 2025 theme. The minister's campaign was tree planting.
Mixing up the 2024 launch of Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam by PM Modi with the 2.0 edition promoted in 2025.

The 2024 launch of the same campaign is asked at 16 Sep 2025, 12:30, GA Q.11 (who launched it), and a World Environment Day scheme at 26 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.17 (Amrit Dharohar, 2023).

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