UPSC Prelims 2014 · Question 6 of 100
UPSC Prelims 2014 question on Tribal Sapling Planting Festival
- ExamUPSC CSE
- Year2014
- PaperGeneral Studies Paper I
- SubjectArt and Culture
- TopicIndian Culture
- DifficultyHard
- TypeDirect
Every year, a month long 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?
Show answer
Answer: B. Gond and Korku
Verdict
The answer is Gond and Korku. The month long festival in which saplings of fruit bearing trees are planted is a community practice of these central Indian tribes.
Analysis
This is a direct question resting on a single news linkage. The Gond and Korku are neighbouring tribal communities of the Satpura belt across Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, and the campaign reported in the press involved them planting and protecting fruit bearing saplings over a month. The closest distractor is Bhutia and Lepcha, which is tempting because both are well known tribal names, but they belong to Sikkim and the eastern Himalayas and the reported campaign was not theirs. Irula and Toda are Nilgiri communities, and Sahariya and Agariya are central Indian groups better known respectively for forest dependence and iron smelting.
Source
The Hindu report on a community led green initiative.
How to crack it
This tracks a single newspaper feature, so the reusable move is in how you read the paper. When a report names a tribe alongside a practice, log the pairing of community, state and practice as one unit rather than the story. UPSC turns exactly those triplets into options. Building a running tribe to state to practice table through the year is what makes questions like this recoverable a year later.