Consider the following statements and select the correct answer from the options given below: Statement 1: The State Council for Climate Change (SCCC) of Uttarakhand was established in the year 2011. Statement 2: The responsibility of preparing the Uttarakhand Action Plan on Climate Change (UAPCC) was given to the State Revenue Department.
- (a)Only statement 1 is correct
- (b)Only statement 2 is correct
- (c)Both statements are incorrect
- (d)Both statements are correct
Correct — A, Only statement 1 is correct.
Statement 1 is the half the Commission's key upholds: Uttarakhand's State Council for Climate Change (SCCC) dates from 2011. It is the state-level council created to give direction to the State's climate work.
Statement 2 fails on the department it names. Drafting the Uttarakhand Action Plan on Climate Change was not the charge of the State Revenue Department, whose business is land revenue, land records and registration. One sound half beside one unsound half gives Only statement 1 is correct.
Carry away the division of labour, not just the year: a state climate action plan is driven by the state's climate-change council and the environment side of government, while the Revenue Department runs land and land revenue.
- (b)Only statement 2 is correct — This inverts the item. It asks you to throw out 2011 as the Council's starting year and to accept the Revenue Department as the body charged with the plan — the opposite of how the key reads each half.
It would be the right answer to a rewritten pair that misdated the Council and correctly named the department that drew up the plan.
- (c)Both statements are incorrect — Rejecting the pair wholesale throws away a statement that stands. The 2011 origin of the State Council for Climate Change is the part the key accepts, so a blanket 'both wrong' verdict loses a true claim along with the false one.
Both-incorrect is the right answer to a version in which the founding year had also been shifted — to 2008 or 2014, say — alongside the wrong department.
- (d)Both statements are correct — The hazard here is momentum: statement 1 checks out, and statement 2 can then ride along unexamined. In this format each statement carries its own evidence and has to be judged separately.
Both-correct is the right answer to a version whose second statement named the body actually given the Uttarakhand Action Plan on Climate Change, leaving two independently true claims.
A State Action Plan on Climate Change is a State government's own climate document. It sets out how the State is exposed to warming, shifting rainfall and extreme events, then lays down sector-wise action across water, agriculture, forests, energy, health and disaster management.
Around the document sits an institutional frame: a state-level council that gives political direction, and a nodal department that drafts, coordinates and reports. Knowing a State's climate governance means knowing both the plan and the bodies that own it.
India's climate architecture works on two tiers. The National Action Plan on Climate Change, released in 2008, set eight national missions; States were then asked to prepare their own action plans consistent with it, for examination at the Union environment ministry.
Uttarakhand's stake in this is direct. Its glaciers, springs, hill agriculture and forests are the assets exposed to a changing climate, and one of the eight national missions is aimed at sustaining the Himalayan ecosystem.
- The official key to this question treats 2011 as the year Uttarakhand's State Council for Climate Change was established.
- India's National Action Plan on Climate Change was released on 30 June 2008 by the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change.
- The NAPCC carries eight national missions, among them the National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem.
- State governments were asked to prepare State Action Plans on Climate Change in line with the NAPCC, for examination by the Union environment ministry.
- The National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem is coordinated by the Department of Science and Technology.
- A State Revenue Department administers land revenue, land records, registration and revenue courts.
One statement stands and one fails on the department it names, so the verdict is A.
- A statement pair rewards splitting: a correct founding year in one statement settles nothing about the department named in the other.
- The year a council is constituted and the year its plan document is released are separate facts, and either can be swapped into a statement.
- The Revenue Department reads plausible because land administration and relief work sit with it, but land work is not the drafting of a climate action plan.
- Here 2008 belongs to the national plan and 2011 to the State council; sliding a date between the two tiers converts a true statement into a false one.
The idea arrives as a statement pair: an institution tied to a year in one line and to a department or agency in the other, with four verdict options to choose between.
The same content also comes as a plain date question — when a council was constituted, when a plan was released — or as a nodal-agency question asking which department owns a given mission or plan.
UPPSC_2018_PRE_GSI_Q1262018Same hook — the year attached to a climate action plan institution. That item asks when India's first National Action Plan on Climate Change was released; this one turns on the year a State council was constituted, so the tier and the body differ even though the drill is the same.
UPPSC_2023_MAINS_GSVI_Q172023Same layer of the architecture — a State Action Plan on Climate Change — but for Uttar Pradesh, and as a descriptive Mains answer on the missions inside that plan. Here the State is Uttarakhand and the demand is a verdict on a founding year and a department, not an account of missions.
CDS_GK_2023_II_Q752023Same statement-pair device, applied to the national plan: one statement of substance and one that plants a release year of 2014. This UKPSC item runs the device at the State tier, where the year is the sound half and the department named is the unsound one.
- practice — not a real PYQ
India's National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) was released in which year?
- (a)2005
- (b)2008
- (c)2011
- (d)2014
Answerb — 2008. The NAPCC was released on 30 June 2008 by the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change, and its eight national missions date from it.2005 sits before the plan existed. 2011 is the year this UKPSC item attaches to Uttarakhand's State Council for Climate Change, a State body, not the national plan. 2014 is a decoy year planted in statement items; the plan was already in force well before it.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which one of the following is one of the eight national missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change?
- (a)National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem
- (b)National Mission for Clean Ganga
- (c)National Rural Livelihood Mission
- (d)National Health Mission
Answera — National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem. It is one of the eight missions carried by the NAPCC, and it is coordinated by the Department of Science and Technology.The National Mission for Clean Ganga is the implementing arm of the Ganga rejuvenation programme under the water ministry. The National Rural Livelihood Mission is a rural poverty and livelihoods programme, and the National Health Mission is the public-health programme; neither belongs to the NAPCC's set of missions.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Consider the following statements about State Action Plans on Climate Change (SAPCCs) and select the correct answer: 1. They are prepared by State governments to align State-level action with the National Action Plan on Climate Change. 2. The National Action Plan on Climate Change was released before the year 2000.
- (a)1 only
- (b)2 only
- (c)Both 1 and 2
- (d)Neither 1 nor 2
Answera — 1 only. States were asked to draw up their own action plans consistent with the national plan, which is exactly what statement 1 says.Statement 2 misdates the national plan: it was released on 30 June 2008, not before 2000. With one true and one false statement, 'both' and 'neither' are ruled out, and 'only 2' keeps the false half while discarding the true one.