PM Launches Chennai Projects, Dedicates New Metro Stretch

The correct answer is Chennai. The Prime Minister addressed a public function in Chennai, where completed works were opened and foundation stones laid for new ones, the whole set valued at thirteen thousand crore rupees, and where a further stretch of the Chennai Metro was dedicated to the public. Option A, Coimbatore, is wrong because no event of this kind was held there; the metro stretch belongs to the Chennai network. Option C, Madurai, is wrong for the same reason, as the city finds no mention in the address. Option D, Tiruchirappalli, is also wrong, since the venue named throughout the address is Chennai and the projects relate to that city and to Tamil Nadu more widely. The Prime Minister also visited the Brain Research Centre at IIT Madras on the same day, which again places the programme in Chennai rather than in any other city of the state.

The correct answer is VOC Port, Thoothukudi. The Prime Minister said the Union Government has recently decided to build this port into a world-class mega container and green energy hub with an investment of about seventeen thousand crore rupees, and that once the work is finished even ultra-large container vessels will be able to reach it, helping Tamil Nadu become a global hub of industry and transport. Option A, Ennore Port, is wrong because it is not the port named in the decision described. Option B, Karaikal Port, is wrong for the same reason and does not appear in the address at all. Option D, Chennai Port, is wrong because the only Chennai facility mentioned for modernisation is the Chennai Fishing Harbour, taken up for fishermen, and not the commercial port. Candidates should link the mega container and green energy hub plan specifically with Thoothukudi.

The correct answer is 25. The Prime Minister said that in 2014 metro trains ran in only five cities of the country, whereas metro services are today operated in twenty-five cities, and that the network itself has grown from roughly two hundred fifty kilometres in that year to more than one thousand one hundred kilometres now. Option A, 15, is wrong because it understates the present spread of the network, which has gone well past that mark. Option B, 20, is wrong for the same reason; it is close to the figure but not the number given in the address. Option D, 30, is wrong because it overstates the position, and no such count was claimed. The expansion was cited to argue that urbanisation should be treated as an opportunity, with public transport as the element that decides how easily city residents, working families, students and senior citizens are able to travel.

The correct answer is IIT Madras. Shortly before the public function in Chennai, the Prime Minister went to the Brain Research Centre at IIT Madras and said that research in this field could create many new opportunities in the field of public health. Option B, IISc Bengaluru, is wrong because the visit described took place in Chennai on the day of the project launch, not in Karnataka. Option C, AIIMS New Delhi, is wrong because no hospital visit figures in the programme, and the centre named is attached to a technology institute rather than to a medical institute. Option D, IIT Bombay, is wrong for the same geographical reason, since the Prime Minister was in Tamil Nadu through the day. He paired the visit with the dedication of a further stretch of the Chennai Metro to describe a country drawing on both science and modern infrastructure.