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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency. The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) has launched a ‘whistle-blower Portal’, as a part of ‘Vigilance Awareness Week 2021’.

Detailed explanation-2: -The “sycoDOCS Whistleblower Portal” is a web-based system provided by an external service provider (sycoDOCS GmbH) for reporting compliance violations to companies. The system is used to record, process and document tips. Evidence to support the reports can be uploaded as an attachment.

Detailed explanation-3: -Along with Third Lieutenant Richard Marven, midshipman Shaw was a key figure in the passage of the first whistleblower law passed in the United States by the Continental Congress.

Detailed explanation-4: -Concerns that count as whistleblowing a criminal offence, for example fraud. someone’s health and safety is in danger. risk or actual damage to the environment. a miscarriage of justice.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Act was approved by the Cabinet of India as part of a drive to eliminate corruption in the country’s bureaucracy and passed by the Lok Sabha on 27 December 2011. The Bill was passed by Rajya Sabha on 21 February 2014 and received the President’s assent on 9 May 2014.