President Murmu Attends First Convocation of AIIMS Bilaspur

The correct answer is the President. President Droupadi Murmu conferred degrees on the first graduating batch of AIIMS Bilaspur at the institute first convocation and also presented gold medals to meritorious students across disciplines. Option A is wrong because the Prime Minister did not attend this ceremony, although he was present when the institute was formally inaugurated earlier. Option C is wrong because the Vice-President had no role in this convocation. Option D is wrong but close: the Governor of Himachal Pradesh, Kavinder Gupta, was present on the occasion and addressed the graduates, yet the degrees were conferred by the President. Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda also spoke, and the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, extended his best wishes to the graduating students.

The correct answer is Rs 5 lakh. Speaking at the convocation, the President said that eligible beneficiaries receive health cover of that amount per family per year under the scheme, which reduces the financial burden of treatment for economically vulnerable families. She added that more than Rs 2 lakh crore has already been spent on the treatment of beneficiaries, and asked everyone concerned to make sure that information about such health protection reaches people living in far-flung areas. Options A and B are wrong because the cover is larger than either figure. Option D is wrong because the annual cover per family under the scheme is smaller than that amount. Candidates should remember the per-family annual cover together with the cumulative spending figure, since questions pair the two.

The correct answer is 1.42 lakh. The Union Health Minister said that undergraduate medical seats have risen to that number, while the count of medical colleges has gone up from 384 to more than 800. Option A is wrong because that is the earlier figure from which undergraduate seats grew, so it is the starting point rather than the present number. Option C is wrong because no such figure was given for present seats. Option D is wrong but is a careful distractor: that is the number of additional undergraduate and postgraduate seats the government aims to add by 2029, and it includes an allocation of Rs 15,000 crore for 10,000 more MBBS and postgraduate seats. The Minister also noted that 16 new AIIMS have been established in the last 12 years, against a single one for several decades earlier.