Vice-President Addresses Second Convocation of Sanskrit University

The correct answer is A++, which is the highest grade the National Assessment and Accreditation Council awards. The Vice-President praised the university for securing it and for carrying out research across the many domains of the Indian knowledge tradition, and he urged the institution to go further and become a leading international centre of excellence for Sanskrit studies. Options A and B are wrong because each names a lower rung of the same scale, and a candidate who recalls only that the grade begins with the letter A will not be able to separate them. Option D is wrong because it belongs to a different band altogether. Alongside the grade, remember the university’s other distinctions mentioned on the occasion, among them the publication of the Vidyapeeth Panchang for forty-four years and the teaching of Prakrit and Vastu Shastra.

The correct answer is Rs 500 crore. The mission is meant to preserve and document India’s manuscript heritage and to bring it within reach of readers in the country and abroad, and the Vice-President cited it while asking teachers and students to seek out unpublished Sanskrit manuscripts, preserve them, edit them critically and publish them. Options A, B and D are wrong because none of those sums has been announced for the mission; they are the kind of round figures a candidate guesses at when the actual number has slipped. Keep this corpus separate in your mind from the other initiatives named in the same address, the National Education Policy 2020 and the Ashtadashi scheme, neither of which was given a figure here.

The correct answer is Lal Bahadur Shastri, the former Prime Minister after whom the university is named. The Vice-President traced the institution’s journey from a Sanskrit Vidyapeetha to a Central University and said the time had come for it to fulfil its founder’s vision by establishing itself as a leading international centre for Sanskrit studies. He also paid tribute to Shastri, saying that the call of Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan expressed the country’s determination to protect its borders and secure its food. Option A is wrong because, although the first Prime Minister founded many institutions, this one does not carry his name or his vision. Option C names a former President and philosopher and option D a former Education Minister; neither is connected with the founding of this university.