Every year, a monthlong ecologically important campaign/festival is held during which certain communities/tribes plant saplings of fruit-bearing trees. Which of the following are such communities/tribes?
- (a) Bhutia and Lepcha
- (b) Gond and Korku ✓ UPSC's answer
- (c) Irula and Toda
- (d) Sahariya and Agariya
Why the answer is (b)
• The official key identifies the Gond and Korku — tribes of central India (Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra) — as the communities that hold this month-long campaign of planting saplings of fruit-bearing trees — option (b).
• Bhutia and Lepcha (a) are Sikkim tribes; Irula and Toda (c) are Nilgiri tribes; Sahariya and Agariya (d) are central Indian tribes without this specific festival.
• Hence option (b).
Why the other options are wrong
- (a) Bhutia and Lepcha
- Bhutia and Lepcha do not observe this planting festival.
- (c) Irula and Toda
- Irula and Toda do not observe it.
- (d) Sahariya and Agariya
- Sahariya and Agariya do not observe it.
Asked in the GS Paper I of the UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Examination 2014, held on 24 August 2014. Question and answer key: Union Public Service Commission. Explanation: UPSC Answer Check.