Correct Answer: (b) To improve transparency and track compliance efficiently

• (a) Incorrect: The new platform is not about centralizing stock trades to one exchange.

• (b) Correct: SEBI’s platform enables brokers to submit compliance documents easily and allows the regulator to monitor and track compliance, ensuring transparency.

• (c) Incorrect: The system does not aim to ban high-frequency trading.
• (d) Incorrect: The regulation is for all brokers, not just government-approved ones.

Correct Answer: (b) Severe urban flooding and escalating heatwaves

• (a) Incorrect: The focus of the report is urban, not rural, employment decline.

• (b) Correct: The World Bank warns Indian cities could suffer $5 billion annual losses from floods and face more heatwave emergencies as urbanization intensifies.

• (c) Incorrect: While groundwater depletion is serious, the report emphasizes floods and heat.
• (d) Incorrect: Urban wildlife is not the central climate risk in this context.

Correct Answer: (c) Universal screening of high-risk populations in affected districts

• (a) Incorrect: There is currently no universal vaccine; the focus is on screening, counseling, and medication.

• (b) Incorrect: Hospitals in metros are important, but mission targets vulnerable rural and tribal populations.

• (c) Correct: The mission prioritizes screening people, especially in tribal/affected regions, to find and treat cases early.
• (d) Incorrect: Genetic engineering is not the main approach under the mission.

Correct Answer: (c) Establishment of India’s first Centre of Excellence for Hornbill Conservation

• (a) Incorrect: No announcement about new resorts in protected forest areas.

• (b) Incorrect: The focus is not on culling but on conservation and rehabilitation.

• (c) Correct: The new centre will lead research, rehabilitation, and community-based hornbill conservation.

• (d) Incorrect: Legalizing pet trade in native birds is not a conservation initiative.