Consider the following statements : 1. Animal Welfare Board of India is established under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986. 2. National Tiger Conservation Authority is a statutory body. 3. National Ganga River Basin Authority is chaired by the Prime Minister. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Directly states the Animal Welfare Board of India was set up in 1962 in accordance with Section 4 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.

Knowing the Board's 1962 origin, a student can note it predates the 1986 Environment (Protection) Act and so likely was not established under that later Act.

Gives an example of a statutory body (Central Ground Water Authority) that was explicitly set up under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (in 1997).

A student can use this pattern—bodies established under the EPA are dated after 1986—to check whether the AWBI's establishment date fits that pattern.

Describes the EPA (1986) as an enabling law that allowed creation of bodies and delegated powers to the Centre (e.g., MoEF created under EPA).

A student can apply the rule that EPA-based bodies and ministries emerged after 1986, so an organization founded in 1962 would not be an EPA creation.

Explains the scope and empowering nature of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986—empowering the Central Government to take measures and create machinery for environmental protection.

A student can infer that bodies whose mandate is explicitly environmental and created after 1986 might be under EPA, while older non-environment-specific boards likely originate from earlier Acts.

Summarizes that many environmental laws were subsumed under the Environmental Protection Act (1986) and that major environmental legislation dates are listed (e.g., 1972, 1986).

A student could use these dates as a timeline: if AWBI is dated 1962, it falls outside the cohort of EPA-era creations.