Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I | List-II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (Environmental institute) | (Headquarters) | ||
| (A) | Arid Forest Research Institute | (I) | Jorhat |
| (B) | Forest Research Institute | (II) | Dehradun |
| (C) | Central Pollution Control Board | (III) | Jodhpur |
| (D) | Rain Forest Research Institute | (IV) | New Delhi |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
Each body is placed where its work is: the forestry institutes sit in the forest zone they study, and the national pollution regulator sits in the capital.
(A) Arid Forest Research Institute — this matches (III) Jodhpur. An institute of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), it works on forests and tree-planting in the hot dry zone of Rajasthan and Gujarat, at the edge of the Thar Desert.
(B) Forest Research Institute — this matches (II) Dehradun. Set up in 1906 as the Imperial Forest Research Institute, it is the oldest forestry institute of India and is now a deemed university in Uttarakhand.
(C) Central Pollution Control Board — this matches (IV) New Delhi. A statutory body set up in 1974 under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, it works under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
(D) Rain Forest Research Institute — this matches (I) Jorhat. Another ICFRE institute, it studies the tropical rain forests of north-east India from Jorhat in Assam.