TRAI Launches Digital Connectivity Rating Platform for Properties

The correct answer is the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. The Digital Connectivity Rating Platform was launched by the telecom regulator, which functions under the Ministry of Communications, and the launch was announced on 25 September 2026. The regulator framed the rules for rating properties in the first place, registers the agencies that carry out an assessment and publishes the ratings, so the platform sits with it alone. The Department of Telecommunications is the executive arm of the ministry, handling licensing and spectrum, and it did not launch this platform. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is a state-owned service provider with no regulatory or rating role in the exercise. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology looks after electronics manufacturing and information technology policy, which is an altogether separate subject. Aspirants should tie the platform to the regulator, to its chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti and to the Ministry of Communications.

The correct answer is 2024. The platform carries out the framework prescribed by the regulator's rules of 2024 on the rating of properties for digital connectivity. Those rules were later amended by a notification issued on 13 May 2026, and the process now followed is the one written into the Rating Manual of 2026, which was brought out on 9 June 2026. So three dates hang together in this story: the parent rules, the amendment and the manual. The other options are years in which no such rating framework was notified by the regulator, and none of them figures in the launch. A careless reading often mixes up the year of the parent regulations with the year of the amendment; remember that the parent rules came first and the amendment and the manual both belong to 2026.

The correct answer is carpet area and the number of parking slots. The rating framework is about how well a building is wired and covered for communication, so its yardsticks are fibre readiness, whether a mobile network is available inside, the connectivity solutions built into the structure and the Wi-Fi the property offers, with benchmarks that differ from one category of property to another. Carpet area and parking belong to real-estate description and have nothing to do with the connectivity assessment. Fibre readiness, mobile network availability and Wi-Fi infrastructure are all part of the framework, which is why options A, B and D are wrong choices for a question that asks what is left out. The purpose of the exercise is to make connectivity a visible and verifiable attribute of a property, so buyers can compare buildings on it.