Vice-President Addresses Second Convocation of AIIMS Deoghar

The correct answer is Jharkhand. Deoghar lies in the Santhal Pargana region of Jharkhand, and the Vice-President described the convocation as a celebration of that region's aspirations, speaking of what the institute means for tribal and rural communities around it. Option A, Bihar, is wrong, though it is an understandable error: Deoghar was part of undivided Bihar before Jharkhand was carved out, and the two states share the Santhal Pargana cultural region along their border. Option C, Odisha, is wrong; Odisha has its own All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Bhubaneswar. Option D, West Bengal, is wrong as well; its institute of this family is at Kalyani. A further confirmation inside the event itself is the list of those present, which included the Governor of Jharkhand, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, and the state's Minister for Health and Medical Education, Dr. Irfan Ansari.

The correct answer is 132 of 173. The Vice-President pointed to this with satisfaction, saying that it showed the country moving from the empowerment of women towards development led by women, and that it showed how education allows women to realise their potential. Option A keeps the right total but halves the number of women, which would make the batch almost evenly divided and would remove the very point the Vice-President was making. Option C keeps the right number of women but inflates the size of the batch, which would reduce their share to little more than half. Option D changes both figures and matches nothing at the ceremony. In examinations a pair of figures like this is usually tested as a ratio, so it helps to hold the fact in the form of a sentence: women were a clear majority, 132 out of a batch of 173 doctors, nurses and health professionals.

The correct answer is 846. Speaking about the expansion of medical education and health infrastructure, the Vice-President said the country had 387 medical colleges before 2014 and now has 846, and he presented institutions such as AIIMS Deoghar as proof of development that is balanced and inclusive. Options A, B and D — 648, 706 and 912 — are all plausible-looking figures of the same order but none of them is the one cited. The safest way to remember the fact is as a pair with its base year: 387 before 2014, and 846 now. Candidates should also link the figure to the wider claim the Vice-President made with it, namely that quality health care and higher education must reach every state, district and village if the goal of a Viksit Bharat by 2047 is to be achieved.

The correct answer is option A. The Vice-President recalled the legacy of Birsa Munda, Sidho-Kanhu and Tilka Manjhi, all of them figures of tribal resistance closely associated with the region around Deoghar, and used their memory to ask the graduates to carry their knowledge into villages, tribal communities and the remotest parts of the country. Option B names Rani Gaidinliu of the north-east along with Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem, who are remembered chiefly in the Telugu-speaking regions, so the grouping does not fit this ceremony. Option C names tribal leaders connected with central and western India, and although Budhu Bhagat belongs to the Chhotanagpur area the set as a whole was not the one cited. Option D lists further tribal leaders of the eastern belt who were likewise not named in the address. The Santhal Pargana link is the clue: Sidho and Kanhu led the Santhal uprising and Tilka Manjhi is remembered in the same region.