Arrange the sequence of national events in the order of their occurrence.
(A) Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan
(B) Mars Orbiter Mission
(C) Right to Information Act
(D) Economic Liberalization
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (D), (C), (B), (A)
Each event is placed by the year it took place.
(D) Economic Liberalization — 1991. Facing a balance-of-payments crisis, the government of P.V. Narasimha Rao, with Manmohan Singh as Finance Minister, opened the economy through the reforms of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation.
(C) Right to Information Act — 2005. It received the President’s assent on 15 June 2005 and came into force on 12 October 2005; it gives citizens the right to ask public authorities for information.
(B) Mars Orbiter Mission — launched by ISRO on 5 November 2013; the spacecraft (Mangalyaan) entered orbit around Mars on 24 September 2014.
(A) Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan — launched on 2 October 2014, Gandhi Jayanti, for a clean and open-defecation-free India. It came after the Mars mission, whether the launch or the orbit date of the mission is taken.