With reference to Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development (APMCHUD), consider the following statements: 1. The first APMCHUD was held in India in 2006 on the theme Emerging Urban Forms Policy Responses and Governance Structure

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Q: 41 (IAS/2017)
With reference to ‘Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development (APMCHUD)’, consider the following statements:
1. The first APMCHUD was held in India in 2006 on the theme ‘Emerging Urban Forms — Policy Responses and Governance Structure’.
2. India hosts all the Annual Ministerial Conferences in partnership with ADB, APEC and ASEAN.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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Current Affairs

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IAS

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The explanation of the provided answer is as follows:

Option 1 states that the first Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development (APMCHUD) was held in India in 2006 with a theme. This is true as the first conference did indeed take place in India in 2006, but the theme was `A Vision for Sustainable Urbanization in the Asia Pacific by 2020`.

Option 2 suggests that India hosts all the annual ministerial conferences in partnership with Asian Development Bank (ADB), Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). This is not correct. The APMCHUD conference rotates among member countries and is not exclusively hosted by India each year.

Hence, option 4 "Neither 1 nor 2" is correct because both statements given in options 1 and 2 are not correct.