Mata Amritanandamayi's 73rd Birthday Marked as Vishwa Seva Dinam

The correct answer is 1,200. Speaking at the 73rd birthday celebrations at Kollam, the Union Home Minister said that he first saw Mata Amritanandamayi's compassion at work during the devastating earthquake that struck Gujarat in 2001, when she put up 1,200 houses and settled an entire village. She did not stop at the houses: the settlement was given a town hall, a place of learning and a hospital for health care, and it is known today as Amma's Village. Option A, 800, is lower than the figure stated and does not match any number connected with the settlement. Option C, 1,500, and option D, 2,100, are both higher than the true figure and are the kind of round numbers a candidate may guess when the exact count is not remembered. The number to carry into the examination hall is 1,200 houses, built after the Gujarat earthquake of 2001, in the village that now carries Amma's name.

The correct answer is Civil-20. The Union Home Minister recalled that when India held the G-20 presidency, it was Mata Amritanandamayi who presided over Civil-20, the grouping through which civil society organisations put their concerns before the G-20 process. That role is the one named in connection with her, and it sits naturally alongside the service work of five decades for which she is known. Option A, Business-20, speaks for industry and commerce and was not the group she led. Option B, Youth-20, carries the voice of young people and is also not connected with her in this context. Option D, Labour-20, represents trade unions and workers' bodies. All three are real G-20 engagement groups, which is what makes them plausible distractors, but only Civil-20 was presided over by Mata Amritanandamayi during India's presidency of the G-20.

The correct answer is Kollam. Mata Amritanandamayi was born on 27 September 1953 into a family of very modest means in the village of Parayakadavu, which lies in Kollam district. The same district hosted the 73rd birthday celebrations at which the Union Home Minister was the chief guest, so the place of birth and the place of the celebration are the same district, and that link is worth remembering. Option A, Thrissur, and option D, Kozhikode, are other districts of the state but are not connected with her birth. Option C, Wayanad, is a tempting choice because the landslide there was named among the disasters in which she and her followers carried out relief work, but a place of relief work is not a place of birth. Candidates should fix three details together: the date 27 September 1953, the village Parayakadavu and the district Kollam.

The correct answer is 86. The Union Home Minister told the gathering that there are at present 86 Amrita Vidyalayas working across the country, and he placed that figure beside the other measures of her institutional work: over a million trees planted, sustained effort in health, education and livelihoods, and 101 villages made completely self-reliant. Option A, 64, and option B, 72, are smaller counts that do not match what was stated. Option D, 110, is larger and may attract a candidate who confuses the school count with the number of self-reliant villages or simply rounds upward. The safest way to hold these numbers apart in memory is to pair them: 86 for the Amrita Vidyalayas and 101 for the self-reliant villages, with over a million trees planted and 365 days of service in a year as the remaining figures from the same speech.