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WBCS Main Examination 2023 — Paper IV: General Studies II · Question 12 of 200

Q12
General ScienceEnvironment & Ecology
The year in which NCEPC was set up is
  1. a.1970
  2. b.1972
  3. c.1974
  4. d.1980

Answer: (B) 1972

The National Committee on Environmental Planning and Coordination (NCEPC) was set up in 1972, the year of the Stockholm Conference, as India's first apex environmental body. It was later succeeded by the Department of Environment (1980), so 1980 is the wrong date, as are 1970 and 1974.

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