India hosted the first edition of this regional housing conference in 2006. Exam questions like to swap in the wrong theme and overstate India’s hosting role.
✊ Must Know
The First Conference
- Where and when India held the first APMCHUD.
- Details It happened in New Delhi, in December 2006.
- Real theme Its actual theme was Sustainable Urbanization in the Asia-Pacific by 2020. A different theme belonged to a later, 2016 edition.
Who Hosts It
- Not always India India does not host every APMCHUD edition. Different member countries have hosted successive conferences.
💡 Good to Know
What APMCHUD Does
- Purpose APMCHUD is a ministerial forum.
- Scope It brings together housing and urban-development ministers from across the Asia-Pacific region.
India’s Repeat Hosting
- 2016 edition India hosted APMCHUD again in 2016, in New Delhi. That made it a two-time host, not the sole permanent host.
Test Yourself
🌟 Great to Know
A Two-Part Trap
- Pattern This question mixes two errors.
- Both parts The theme attached to the first conference is wrong, and the claim that India hosts every edition is also wrong.
- Related Body For the UN body with a broader housing/urban mandate, see IntlRel0126 — UN-Habitat.
📝 Previous Year Questions
UPSC CSP 2017 — Facts About the First APMCHUD
- UPSC 2017 The correct answer is (d) Neither 1 nor 2. The first APMCHUD’s actual theme differs from the one in Statement 1. India does not host every edition. See UPSC CSP 2017 GS Paper I, Q41.
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