ICMR to Get First High Altitude Medicine Centre at Keylong

The correct answer is Keylong, Himachal Pradesh. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said that the centre will come up at Keylong in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, and that the Union Health Minister will lay its foundation stone there. The district was chosen because it is a high-altitude, tribal and strategically significant border area, which makes it suitable for long-running field studies on mountain populations. Option A, Leh in Ladakh, is wrong because, although it is also a high-altitude town, the centre announced is not located there. Option C, Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, is wrong for the same reason and does not appear in the announcement. Option D, Munsiyari in Uttarakhand, is wrong as well, since no site in that state has been named. Candidates should tie the centre to Lahaul and Spiti in Himachal Pradesh.

The correct answer is the Indian Council of Medical Research. The centre is being established by the ICMR under the Department of Health Research in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and the announcement describes it as the first dedicated centre of the ICMR for high-altitude medicine and public health research. Option A is wrong because the Defence Research and Development Organisation is a defence research agency and is not the body setting up this centre, although the Armed Forces Medical Services are named as a collaborating institution. Option B is wrong because the All India Institute of Medical Sciences is a medical institute and does not figure as the promoter of the centre. Option D is wrong because the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research works under a different department and has no role in this project. Note the parent department as well, since that pairing is often tested.

The correct answer is the Green ICMR Campus Initiative. The Ministry has said that after the Bhumi Pujan, the ceremonial groundbreaking and the unveiling of the foundation stone at Keylong, native Himalayan saplings will be planted under this initiative, and that the ceremony will also include a scientific exhibition, the launch of the institutional video and website of the centre, a presentation of the building layout and the release of a commemorative postal special cover by the Union Health Minister. Option B is wrong because no programme of that name is mentioned in the announcement. Option C is wrong because it refers to a different hill region altogether and finds no place in the plan. Option D is wrong because the activity described is tree planting on the campus of a research centre and not a cleanliness drive. Small naming details of this kind are a favourite with paper setters.