Ministry of Jal Shakti MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

Assertion (A) is true: Shri C R Patil, Union Minister of Jal Shakti, will chair the conference, while Shri Raj Bhushan Choudhary, Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti, and Shri V.L. Kantha Rao, Secretary (DoWR, RD & GR), will co-chair it. Reason (R) is also true: participation extends to the Ministry's organisations and attached and subordinate offices such as the CWC, the NDSA and the NWM, besides senior officials of all State and UT Water Resources Departments. However, R does not explain A. Who presides over the conference follows from the ministerial and administrative hierarchy of the Ministry of Jal Shakti; it is not determined by which technical bodies attend. R merely describes the range of participants. Hence both are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

Statement 1 is correct: the Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation (DoWR, RD & GR) will convene the conference on 13 July 2026 at Chanakya Hall, Sushma Swaraj Bhawan, New Delhi, and Shri C R Patil, Union Minister of Jal Shakti, will chair it (Shri Raj Bhushan Choudhary, Minister of State, and Shri V.L. Kantha Rao, Secretary, will co-chair). Statement 2 is incorrect only in its deadline: the completion of the Comprehensive Dam Safety Evaluation (CDSE) under the Dam Safety Act, 2021 is indeed one of the eight priority agenda items, but the target date is December 2026, not December 2025. Hence only statement 1 is correct.