503-Member Indian Contingent Sent Off for Asian Games 2026

The correct answer is 503. At the send-off ceremony in New Delhi on 8 September 2026, the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports said that a contingent of this size, made up of athletes together with support staff, is going to the Asian Games in Japan. Options A, C and D are near numbers of the kind a paper setter places around the real figure to catch a candidate who remembers the story but not the count. None of them appears in the announcement of the send-off. A second figure from the same story is often paired with this one in the examination hall: more than three hundred of the athletes in the contingent are going to the Asian Games for the first time, which the minister presented as proof of new talent and of the bench strength of Indian sport. Learn the two numbers together and the question becomes easy.

The correct answer is Sahdev Yadav. At the send-off he unveiled the official jersey of the contingent along with three other office bearers, and the release identifies him as the Chef de Mission, the person who leads the contingent at the Games themselves. Option A is wrong because Dr P. T. Usha is the President of the Indian Olympic Association; she spoke at the ceremony and said a sporting journey is measured by dreams and not only by medals. Option B is wrong because Hari Ranjan Rao is the Secretary (Sports), an officer of the government rather than the contingent's leader at the Games. Option D is wrong because Dr Mansukh Mandaviya is the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, who presided over the send-off. These four names and their four posts are the most examinable part of this story, so revise them as one set.

The correct answer is 2036. Speaking at the send-off of the Asian Games contingent, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya said the target is that year, by which India hopes to host the Olympic Games and to be firmly established on the world stage, and he described a ten-year plan with more than thirty six thousand crore rupees allocated to improve sports infrastructure. Option A and option B are years that do not figure in his statement at all, though an aspirant may associate them with other Olympic editions. Option D is a decade that is simply not part of the plan he set out. Note how the figures in this story hang together: the money is for sports infrastructure, the plan runs for ten years, and the year named as the goal is the one in which India hopes to be the host nation.