VIMARSH 2026: DRDO Hands Nine Technology Transfer Licences

The correct answer is Varta se Vikas, the theme named by the Defence Secretary and DRDO Chairman while describing how the meet was designed. The phrase captures the purpose of the gathering, which was to turn conversation between the laboratories and private manufacturers into concrete development work. Option B is wrong because no such theme is attached to this meet in the release. Option C is wrong for the same reason, though it sounds plausible for a research event. Option D is a generic slogan and is not the theme here. An aspirant should tie the theme to the other identifying facts of the event: the name VIMARSH, the date of 15 September 2026, the venue of New Delhi, and the presence of Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh, who unveiled the new policy initiatives for MSMEs and deep-tech start-ups.

The correct answer is nine agreements to 13 partners. The release records that nine Licensing Agreements for Transfer of Technology, written in short as LAToTs, were handed over to that many manufacturing partners in the presence of the Raksha Mantri, so that they may take up commercial production of the systems involved. Option C reverses the two numbers and is the trap most likely to catch a hurried reader, so note the order carefully: the count of agreements is the smaller of the two. Option A understates the number of agreements. Option D invents both figures. Remember also that one agreement can cover more than one partner, which is why the number of partners is larger than the number of licences signed at this meet.

The correct answer is the Quality Council of India. DRDO signed a contract with it for the System for Advance Manufacturing Assessment and Rating, whose second version will benchmark how mature the manufacturing capability of domestic defence enterprises really is. Option A is wrong because the standards body was not named as the partner for this contract. Option C is wrong for the same reason, even though accreditation of laboratories sounds close to the subject. Option D is the trap: strategic memoranda of understanding were indeed exchanged with the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers and with Laghu Udyog Bharati at the same event, but those were outreach agreements, not the SAMAR contract. Keep the three agreements separate in memory, because a question can be set on any one of them.