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Special Campaign 6.0 for disposal of pending matters will run from 2 to 31 October 2026, with e-waste collection, segregation and disposal as its special theme.
The Ministry of Coal reported its Campaign 5.0 record: over 1.13 crore sq ft cleared, 14,017 metric tonnes of scrap disposed and Rs 56.85 crore earned.
DARPG rated the Ministry top performer in Space Freed and third in Revenue Earned among all Union Ministries and Departments in Campaign 5.0.
Preparatory meetings for Campaign 6.0 were held on 1 September 2026 with nodal officers of CIL and its subsidiaries, NLCIL, SCCL, CCO and CMPFO.
Institutionalise Swachhata in government offices while clearing pending MP and PMO references, public grievances, parliamentary assurances and State government references.
Key: Run by DARPG every October since 2021 across all Ministries, Departments, attached and subordinate offices, autonomous bodies and PSUs.
Mobilise citizens to volunteer their own time and labour (shramdaan) for cleanliness, treating it as a civic duty rather than a government activity.
Key: First held from 15 September 2017; now observed annually from 17 September to 2 October (Swachh Bharat Diwas), run jointly by MoHUA and the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ministry of Jal Shakti.
Nodal department for the Special Campaign and the central public grievance system; issues the guidelines and the report ranking Ministries on space freed, revenue earned and files weeded.
Maharatna PSU under the Ministry of Coal and India's dominant coal producer; it has eight subsidiaries, including Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (Sambalpur, Odisha) and Western Coalfields Limited (Nagpur, Maharashtra).
Navratna PSU (2011), formerly Neyveli Lignite Corporation; the Ministry of Coal's nodal agency for lignite mining and India's largest lignite producer.
Miniratna Category-I producer and the major coal PSU that is NOT a CIL subsidiary: the Government of Telangana holds 51 per cent and the Government of India the rest.
Subordinate office of the Ministry of Coal handling coal statistics, grading and regulation; offices at Delhi, Kolkata, Dhanbad, Ranchi, Bilaspur, Nagpur, Sambalpur and Kothagudem.
Autonomous body under the Ministry of Coal running coal workers' social security, with about 20 regional offices in coal-producing states.
Notified by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on 2 November 2022 and in force from 1 April 2023, replacing the 2016 rules. Schedule I widened coverage from 21 categories to 106 electrical and electronic items, including solar photovoltaic modules, panels and cells. Producers, manufacturers, refurbishers and recyclers must register on a Central Pollution Control Board portal and meet Extended Producer Responsibility recycling targets - the framework behind Campaign 6.0's theme.
Constitutes the CMPFO, which runs the Coal Mines Provident Fund Scheme 1948, Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme 1976 and Coal Mines Pension Scheme 1998 - a coal workers' regime separate from the EPFO.
EPR makes a producer legally answerable for its product after the consumer discards it. Producers must channel a fixed share of what they placed on the market to registered recyclers and meet annual targets, instead of leaving end-of-life disposal to municipalities.
GS Paper 2 > Governance > Government Policies and Interventions
General Awareness > Government Schemes and Organisations
In India, 'extended producer responsibility' was introduced as an important feature in which of the following?
Answer: The e-Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011
DARPG-run annual October drive, since 2021, to institutionalise office cleanliness and clear pendency in grievances, references and files.
A producer's legal duty to collect and recycle a prescribed share of its products at end of life.
Annual shramdaan drive, 17 September to 2 October, run by MoHUA with the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation since 2017.