Arrange the following events in chronological order (oldest to latest)
(A) Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA)
(B) Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY)
(C) Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)
(D) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (C), (A), (B), (D)
Each item is a step taken by the Indian government or the United Nations to protect the environment or to improve the lives of the rural poor. The year in which each step was taken fixes its place in the order.
(C) Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) — 1974. The government set up the CPCB in 1974 to deal with two major environmental concerns, water and air pollution; the states then set up their own boards.
(A) Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) — 2005. The Act promises 100 days of guaranteed wage employment to every rural household whose members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
(B) Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) — 2014. Introduced in October 2014, the scheme asks each Member of Parliament to identify one village in the constituency and develop it into a model village.
(D) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — 2015. In 2015 the United Nations formulated 17 Sustainable Development Goals, to be achieved by the year 2030.
Shortcut: The CPCB, set up in the 1970s, is decades older than the other three, so the order must begin with (C), and Option (4) is the only option that does.