According to the Jal Seva Adhayan findings presented at the meeting, what is the leading cause of rural water supply disruption?

The correct answer is more than 15.96 crore. At the regional review of Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0, the Secretary of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation said that rural drinking water access has been transformed, with more than 15.96 crore rural households now holding tap water connections. Option A is wrong because 3.27 crore is the number of households that had tap connections when the Mission was launched, that is the base figure rather than the present one. Option B is wrong because no such intermediate figure was placed before the meeting. Option D is wrong because it overstates the coverage reported. The pair of numbers is what matters for the examination: 3.27 crore at the start and more than 15.96 crore now, which together show the scale of the change claimed.

The correct answer is IIM Bangalore. The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation of the Ministry of Jal Shakti organised the regional review meeting at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, where Professor Gopal Naik, who holds the JJM Professor Chair at that institute, also presented a study on power cost optimisation in Mission schemes. Option B is wrong because no meeting is reported at Ahmedabad. Option C is wrong because the venue was a management institute and not an institute of technology. Option D is wrong because the Kozhikode campus had no role in this review. Aspirants should link the institute to the JJM Professor Chair and to the study comparing grid-based and solar-powered water supply configurations and their effect on life-cycle costs.

The correct answer is Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the Union Minister of Rural Development and of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. He addressed the Chintan Shivir and pressed for wider use of digital technologies, GPS-based monitoring and artificial intelligence in field verification, monitoring and timely decision-making, while also seeking faster preparation of Detailed Project Reports, better construction quality and stronger accountability. Option A is wrong because the road transport portfolio is separate and that minister is not named here; PMGSY is run by the Ministry of Rural Development. Option C is wrong because Kamlesh Paswan is the Minister of State for Rural Development, who spoke about delayed works and the five-year maintenance period. Option D is wrong because Rohit Kansal is the Secretary, Rural Development, an officer rather than a minister.

The correct answer is 25,000. The current phase of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana is designed to provide connectivity to 25,000 eligible unconnected habitations, and to do so it targets roughly 62,500 km of all-weather roads with an outlay of Rs 70,125 crore. Option A is wrong because no such halved figure is mentioned anywhere in the scheme review. Option C is wrong because 62,500 is the kilometre target of road length and not a count of habitations. Option D is wrong because it is simply not the figure announced for this phase. Aspirants should also note the long-run achievement quoted at the Chintan Shivir, namely about 8 lakh km of rural roads built under the different phases of PMGSY over the past 25 years.

The correct answer is Rs 70,125 crore. Under PMGSY-IV, with this outlay, about 62,500 km of all-weather roads are targeted so that 25,000 eligible unconnected habitations receive connectivity. Option A is wrong because 62,500 is the road length in kilometres under this phase, not the money allotted, and the two figures are easy to confuse in a hurry. Option C is wrong for the same reason: 25,000 is the number of habitations to be connected, not a rupee figure. Option D is wrong because no such round figure appears in the review of the scheme. These three numbers were put out together at the PMGSY Chintan Shivir held at Bharat Mandapam on 5 and 6 October 2026, and they should be memorised as a set, along with the roughly 8 lakh km of rural roads already built over 25 years.