“Shoonya campaign”, recently launched by NITI Aayog in association with RMI, a non-profit organization, is related to?
Promotion of pollution-free delivery vehicles.
Correct AnswerElimination of outflow of Industrial water waste into water channels.
Incorrect AnswerReducing the rise in number of water borne diseases in India.
Incorrect AnswerPromoting zero food wastage in India by integrating food-value chains.
Incorrect AnswerExplanation:
Correct Option: (a) Explanation: Option (a) is correct Supplementary notes: Shoonya Campaign Recently NITI Aayog, in association with the RMI India (an independent non-pro fi t organization), launched Shoonya campaign. Shoonya campaign is an initiative to work with consumers and industry in order to promote pollution-free delivery vehicles. This campaign was launched with the aim of accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in urban delivery segment and raise consumer awareness regarding the bene fi ts of pollution-free delivery. Industry stakeholders like e-commerce companies, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), fl eet aggregators and logistics companies are expanding their efforts on electrifying last mile deliveries. Under the campaign, a corporate branding and certi fi cation program has been launched in order to recognize and facilitate industry’s efforts of shifting towards EVs for fi nal mileage delivery. Online tracking platform shares the impact of this campaign by providing data like kilometers of electri fi ed vehicles, standard pollutant savings, carbon savings and other bene fi ts from clean delivery vehicles. The main purpose of the campaign is to eliminate pollution from urban freight sector. For this purpose, e-commerce companies, automakers, and logistics fl eet operators have been asked to recognize the opportunity. Urban freight vehicles account for 10% of India’s freight-related CO2 emissions. These emissions are expected to rise by 114% by 2030.
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