Asia's First Telecom Manufacturing Zone Comes Up in Gwalior

The correct answer is Gwalior. The zone is coming up at the Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Counter Magnet City, known as SADA, inside Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, and the state government has given about 170 acres of land free of cost for it. The ground-breaking ceremony has been fixed for 29 October 2026, when the Union Home Minister will join more than 24 companies of the telecom trade. Option A, Indore, is wrong: although it is the largest city of Madhya Pradesh by commerce, no telecom zone of this kind has been announced there. Option C, Bhopal, is wrong: it is the state capital and the seat of the government that gave the land, but the project itself sits elsewhere. Option D, Jabalpur, is wrong: it has no role in this announcement. Candidates should link the superlative, Asia’s first such zone, with Gwalior and with the Gwalior-Chambal belt of Madhya Pradesh that the project is expected to lift.

The correct answer is Rs 493 crore. The Government of India is bearing the entire cost of building infrastructure in the first phase of the zone, and that figure is a full grant rather than a loan or a shared contribution. Alongside it the Madhya Pradesh government has handed over roughly 170 acres of land without charge, and a Special Purpose Vehicle has been formed in which the state holds the larger share of equity and the Department of Telecommunications the smaller. Options B, C and D are wrong because each rearranges the same digits into a sum that was never announced for the project, a common trap in examinations where a candidate remembers the digits but not their order. Note also the separate figures: investment proposals of over Rs 5,500 crore and an employment potential of more than 18,000, which are the money brought by industry, not by the Centre.

The correct answer is state 51 per cent, Department of Telecommunications 49 per cent. The vehicle set up to build and run the zone gives the Madhya Pradesh government the controlling share and the Department of Telecommunications the rest, which makes the project an example of a Centre-state partnership where the state leads on the ground while the Centre funds the first phase. Option A reverses the two partners and is therefore wrong. Option C is wrong because an equal division would leave neither partner with control, and that is not the structure announced. Option D is wrong because no such ratio figures anywhere in the plan. Remember alongside this that the state also gave the land free, the Centre is paying the whole first-phase infrastructure bill, and the zone follows a plug-and-play model similar in working to a Special Economic Zone.