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UPPSC 2011 GS-1 Environment & Ecology
Question

In India Project Elephant was launched in the year-

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option D: 1992

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “1992”.
The Government of India launched Project Elephant in February 1992 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

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