According to Dr Jitendra Singh, what is the present size of India's space economy?

The correct answer is 100 GW by 2047. The minister referred to this target together with the opening of the nuclear sector to private participation, and described nuclear power as an important clean-energy source for future requirements, among them the demand created by artificial intelligence and data centres. Options A, B and D pair plausible capacity figures with plausible years, which is exactly how such questions are built, so both halves of the answer must be remembered. The year 2047 matters because it marks a century of independence and is the horizon for several national targets, so a candidate who recalls the year can often reason to the right option. The capacity figure of 100 GW should be stored alongside the space economy numbers from the same address.

The correct answer is the National Supercomputing Mission, which the minister did not name in this address. The initiatives he cited as creating capability in emerging fields were the Deep Ocean Mission, the Quantum Mission, artificial intelligence, cyber security and the Anusandhan National Research Foundation, so options A, B and C all appear on that list. On the Deep Ocean Mission he said India is only beginning to explore the scientific and economic potential of its oceans, including resources that remain largely unexamined. In biotechnology he separately pointed to a framework built around biotechnology for economy, environment and employment, the world’s first DNA vaccine against COVID-19 and the Genome India initiative. Chandrayaan-3 was his example of running a sophisticated mission at remarkably low cost.

The correct answer is Airtel and Reliance Jio. Airtel dropped none of the 279 calls it successfully set up and Jio dropped none of its 278, while BSNL recorded three drops out of 281 calls and Vodafone Idea three out of 248, which rules out options A, C and D. On the related measure of coverage gap, counted as samples of poor signal strength out of all samples gathered in auto-selection mode, Airtel showed the fewest weak samples at 178 out of 31329, ahead of Jio at 295 out of 30439, Vodafone Idea at 820 out of 31163 and BSNL at 1575 out of 31183. Call silence instances lasting more than three seconds were lowest for Airtel at one out of 268 calls and highest for Vodafone Idea at six out of 272.

The correct answer is 184.6 km. Along with the city drive, the appointed agency carried out a walk test of 1.9 km and tested six hotspot locations across Fazilka city and the areas adjoining it, all between 5 and 7 August 2026. Options A, B and D give distances that were not reported. The route took in Abohar, Jalalabad, Khui Khera, Ghubhaya, Ladhuka and several other settlements besides Fazilka town. During such a test, live voice and data sessions are established on the SIM cards of every service provider over 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G networks using multiple advanced handsets, and the sessions are monitored and analysed in real time. The parameters measured include coverage gap, call setup success rate, call drop rate, call silence instances, speech quality, latency, jitter, packet loss and download and upload throughput.

The correct answer is Reliance Jio, which averaged 271.44 Mbps on download in the Fazilka drive test. Option A, Airtel, came second at 204.39 Mbps, so it is a close but wrong choice; Airtel did, however, top the upload table at 23.52 Mbps. Option D, Vodafone Idea, averaged 17.19 Mbps on download and 15.10 Mbps on upload. Option B, BSNL, was lowest on download at 15.59 Mbps and on upload at 6.39 Mbps, and also recorded the highest packet loss, at 2.68 per cent on the downlink and 2.90 per cent on the uplink. Candidates should remember that the exercise was an Independent Drive Test in the Punjab Licensed Service Area, carried out from 5 to 7 August 2026 and supervised by the regulator’s regional office at Jaipur, with the findings published in October.