CDS Opens Project Seabird Phase IIA Housing at Karwar

The correct answer is General NS Raja Subramani, Chief of Defence Staff. He is also Secretary of the Department of Military Affairs, and he opened the new housing for senior sailors and naval defence civilians, along with trunk utility and amenity infrastructure, at the Karwar base. Option A is wrong because the Chief of the Naval Staff is not named in connection with this inauguration at all. Option C is wrong because the Defence Minister did not perform the ceremony; the announcement came from the Ministry of Defence, but the inauguration was done by the Chief of Defence Staff. Option D names an officer who was indeed present, Vice Admiral Vivek Dahiya, the Director General Seabird, but he attended the ceremony along with other senior officers rather than inaugurating the facilities. Candidates should link Project Seabird with Karwar and with the Chief of Defence Staff for this event.

The correct answer is about 10,000. The base at Karwar, when the work is finished, will house roughly 10,000 uniformed and civilian personnel together with their families, and the Ministry expects this to strengthen the local economy, industry and tourism and to generate direct and indirect jobs across the Uttara Kannada region. Options A, B and D give figures that do not match the strength stated for the base; they are plausible only because large naval stations vary widely in size. Remember the related numbers from the same handover, since paper setters mix them up: two towers of 60 dwelling units each, one for married senior sailors and one for naval defence civilians, inliving accommodation for 156 Defence Security Corps personnel, and one kindergarten school, all at East of Manzil Creek and Amadalli inside the base.

The correct answer is IGBC Gold. The project is being built to the norms of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and of the Indian Green Building Council, and on completion it is to be rated IGBC Gold. Option B is wrong because the rating stated is Gold and not Platinum, which is the higher grade of the same council. Options C and D name rating systems other than the Indian Green Building Council, so they are not the rating mentioned for this project. The same part of the announcement also records the indigenous content of the work: more than 90 per cent of the materials and equipment has been sourced within India, which the Ministry presents as an example of Aatmanirbhar Bharat in military infrastructure. Both facts are easy one-mark questions.