State News Questions and Answers

Answer: C

The village is Aandhi.

Aandhi, a village in Jaipur district, is being turned into a zero-waste model with green technology installed under a Department of Science and Technology supported project: an organic waste bio-methanation plant at the government school that makes biogas, vermifiltration of wastewater at the community health centre, constructed wetlands and a resource recovery centre.

Mandawa and Ranakpur are known for painted havelis and the Jain temple respectively, and Bijaypur is not the village of this project.

Answer: A

The conference was organised in Jaipur.

The Department of Official Language under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs holds regional official language conferences to promote the use of Hindi in central government offices, banks and public sector undertakings, and to honour the offices that do best. The 2025 conference for the region was held in Jaipur, the state capital.

Bikaner, Ajmer and Jodhpur are major Rajasthan cities, but none of them hosted this conference.

Answer: A

Akodara is in Gujarat.

Akodara, in Sabarkantha district, was adopted by ICICI Bank and declared India's first digital village in 2015: transactions there, from buying milk to paying at shops, are done through bank accounts, cards and mobile phones rather than cash.

Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Rajasthan have had their own digital village initiatives, but Akodara, the village named in the question, is in Gujarat.

Answer: B

The official final key is (B): both statements are true, but [R] is not the correct explanation of [A]. The Tamil Nadu Government used the Tamil letter in place of the rupee symbol in its 2025-26 budget material.

The reason, widespread development of Tamil Nadu to benefit all, describes the budget's stated aim, not why the symbol was replaced, so it does not explain the assertion. The pen tick on the booklet marked (D), the tentative answer, which the final key replaced.

Answer: B

The Governor was of Mizoram.

In November 2023 the Governor of Mizoram, Hari Babu Kambhampati, appointed Squadron Leader Manisha Padhi of the Indian Air Force as his aide-de-camp, the first woman from the armed forces to serve as an ADC to a Governor in India.

The Governors of Manipur, Meghalaya and Assam made no such appointment.

Answer: C

The State is Goa.

The Mayem Biodiversity Atlas was released by Goa's Chief Minister Pramod Sawant in August 2023, and the Goa Government described it as India's first village atlas. The state also said it planned a biodiversity atlas for each of its 191 village panchayats.

Maharashtra, Kerala and Karnataka have village-level mapping and biodiversity registers, but none of them launched an atlas described as the first of its kind in the country.

Answer: A

India's first 100% digitally literate panchayat is in Kerala.

Pullampara panchayat in Thiruvananthapuram district was declared the country's first fully digitally literate panchayat in 2022, after the 'Digi Pullampara' campaign trained every household to use smartphones and online services.

Tamil Nadu (printed 'Tamil Nade'), Karnataka and Maharashtra do not hold this distinction.

Answer: A

The museum was established at Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu.

India's first Food Security Museum was set up by the Food Corporation of India at Thanjavur and opened in the months before this exam. It traces the story of food in India from the days of famine to self-sufficiency, and the work of procuring, storing and distributing foodgrains under the public distribution system.

Thanjavur was chosen as the centre of the Cauvery delta, long called the rice bowl of Tamil Nadu. Surat, Thane and Faridabad are not where the museum was built.

Answer: C

The literacy rate announced was 94.65%.

After Census 2011 put Tripura's literacy at 87.75%, the state ran a literacy drive and had the result assessed by a survey under the Indian Statistical Institute. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar announced the new rate of 94.65% on International Literacy Day in September 2013, saying Tripura had overtaken Kerala as India's most literate state.

The other figures are traps: 87.75% is Tripura's Census 2011 rate, which the survey replaced, and 93.91% is Kerala's Census 2011 rate, the figure Tripura was compared with. 95.16% is not the announced figure.

Answer: D

The Assam force is Virangana.

Virangana is the all-women commando unit of the Assam Police, raised in 2012 to deal with crimes against women such as harassment in public places. Its members are trained in unarmed combat and patrol markets, schools and other public areas.

The other names are not the Assam unit. Nirbhaya is the name by which the victim of the 2012 Delhi assault became known, later given to a national fund for women's safety, while Sribal and Naribal are not the name of the Assam force.