UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Government Strengthens Anti-Doping Framework with Enforcement of National Anti-Doping Act, 2022 and Amendment Act, 2025

Q1. The National Anti-Doping Act, 2022 confers statutory status on which single body, converting it from an earlier registered-society/executive arrangement into a statutory authority for regulating anti-doping in sport?

  • A. National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA)
  • B. Sports Authority of India (SAI)
  • C. National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL)
  • D. National Sports Development Fund (NSDF)

Q2. Under which enactment did the National Anti-Doping Agency acquire its statutory legal standing (as opposed to its earlier status as a registered society)?

  • A. National Anti-Doping Act, 2022
  • B. National Sports Governance Act, 2025
  • C. National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Act, 2025
  • D. Sports Authority of India Act, 1984

Q3. The commencement of the National Anti-Doping Act, 2022 and its 2025 Amendment was brought into force through a notification issued by which authority?

  • A. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
  • B. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
  • C. National Anti-Doping Agency, acting on its own
  • D. World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)

Q4. In the legislative history of India's anti-doping law, which of the following was the earliest milestone?

  • A. Introduction of the National Anti-Doping Bill in the Lok Sabha (December 2021)
  • B. Passage of the National Anti-Doping Act by Parliament (July 2022)
  • C. Passage of the National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Act (August 2025)
  • D. Notified commencement of both Acts (July 2026)

Q5. By enacting which of the following did India join the select group of about 30 countries that have their own dedicated national anti-doping statute?

  • A. National Anti-Doping Act, 2022
  • B. The 2009 establishment of NADA as a registered society
  • C. National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Act, 2025
  • D. National Sports Governance Act, 2025

Q6. Besides NADA, the National Anti-Doping Act, 2022 gives statutory legal sanctity to which testing institution?

  • A. National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL)
  • B. National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
  • C. Central Drugs Laboratory (CDL)
  • D. National Institute of Sports (NIS)

Q7. India's anti-doping law is framed to align the country with how many principal international anti-doping instruments — namely the World Anti-Doping Code and the UNESCO International Convention against Doping in Sport?

  • A. Two
  • B. One
  • C. Three
  • D. Four

Q8. Which of the following is the only international treaty against doping in sport, providing the legal framework through which governments give effect to the World Anti-Doping Code?

  • A. UNESCO International Convention against Doping in Sport
  • B. The World Anti-Doping Code
  • C. The Copenhagen Declaration on Anti-Doping in Sport
  • D. The Olympic Charter

Q9. Under the National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Act, 2025, which authority is now vested with the power to constitute the National Anti-Doping Appeal Panel?

  • A. The Central Government
  • B. The National Board for Anti-Doping
  • C. The Director General of NADA
  • D. The World Anti-Doping Agency

Q10. The anti-doping law, as clarified by the 2025 Amendment, provides for results-management adjudication through how many panels — a Disciplinary Panel and an Appeal Panel?

  • A. Two
  • B. One
  • C. Three
  • D. Four

Q11. For strengthening regional anti-doping cooperation across South Asia, NADA India signed a Memorandum of Understanding with which organisation?

  • A. South Asia Regional Anti-Doping Organization (SARADO)
  • B. SAARC Anti-Doping Council
  • C. Asia/Oceania Regional Anti-Doping Organization
  • D. Commonwealth Anti-Doping Alliance