SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 23 September 2025, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 10 of 100

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Consider the following statements regarding NADA India’s Education Plan objectives: 1) It aims to promote values of sportsmanship and fair play within India’s sports ecosystem. 2) It focuses on penalizing athletes caught doping rather than education. 3) It provides accurate and timely anti-doping information to all stakeholders. Which of the statements is/are correct?

(a)Only 1 and 2 are Correct
(b)Only 2 and 3 are Correct
(c)Only 1 and 3 are Correct
(d)1, 2 and 3 are Correct

Answer

Why

Correct — C. NADA India's website lists the Education Plan's objectives. They include 'Promoting values associated with sports and fair play amongst the sports ecosystem in India' and 'Providing accurate and timely anti-doping information to all stakeholders'.

That confirms statements 1 and 3. Statement 2 inverts the plan: an education plan exists to prevent doping, not to punish it → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Only 1 and 2 are Correct — Statement 2 is false. NADA's objectives for the plan centre on awareness and information. Penalties are handled under the anti-doping rules and disciplinary panels, not by the education plan.
(b)
Only 2 and 3 are Correct — Statement 1 is true, and this option leaves it out. NADA lists promoting fair play among the Education Plan's objectives, and statement 2 is false.
(d)
1, 2 and 3 are Correct — Not all three hold. Statement 2 turns an education plan into a punishment scheme, the opposite of the objectives NADA lists for it.

Concept

The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) India was set up on 24 November 2005 and now works under the National Anti-Doping Act, 2022. It adopts and implements anti-doping rules that conform with the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Beside testing and sanctions, it runs an education programme. Its Education Plan aims to prevent doping by raising awareness, sensitising athletes and their support personnel, and informing every stakeholder.

Key facts

NADA India was set up on 24 November 2005.
NADA works under the National Anti-Doping Act, 2022.
NADA's Education Plan objectives include promoting fair play and giving all stakeholders accurate, timely anti-doping information.
NADA's rules are framed to conform with the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Study next

WADA and the World Anti-Doping CodeThe National Anti-Doping Act, 2022The National Dope Testing Laboratory

Common traps

Accepting statement 2 because NADA does sanction athletes — sanctions are real, but they are not the Education Plan's focus.
Dismissing statement 3 as too vague — it is nearly word for word from NADA's list of objectives.

Here a statement set tests an agency's purpose by slipping in one statement that inverts it. The words 'rather than education' in statement 2 are the tell.

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