According to the National Household Travel Survey, which is the leading primary mode of transport for workers commuting to a workplace?

The correct answer is the National Statistics Office. The NSO, which works under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, carried out the first all-India National Household Travel Survey between July 2025 and June 2026 and released its key indicators through a factsheet. Option A, NITI Aayog, is the government’s policy think tank and publishes indices of its own, but it does not run large household sample surveys of this kind. Option C, the Reserve Bank of India, conducts surveys on consumer confidence, inflation expectations and bank credit, not on travel behaviour of households. Option D is incorrect because the Census Commissioner conducts the decennial population census rather than sample surveys on commuting. Aspirants should link NSO and MoSPI with household surveys such as this one, remembering also that the survey additionally served the data requirements of the Ministry of Railways.

The correct answer is ₹785. The survey put the average monthly outlay on commuting to a fixed workplace at ₹785 for each worker, and the figure hides a sharp divide: urban workers spend ₹1,044 a month while rural workers spend ₹612. Option A is the average monthly spend of students on travel to their educational institution, not of workers. Option B is the rural worker figure alone, so it understates the national average. Option D is the urban worker figure, which is higher than the national average rather than equal to it. There is also a gender gap worth remembering, with male workers spending ₹835 a month against ₹533 for female workers. Questions on this survey are likely to swap the student and worker numbers or the rural and urban ones, so fix all four in memory together.

The correct answer is buses and inter-city railways. The survey reported that buses carry 55.8% of household overnight trips and inter-city railways another 17.7%, which together make up roughly three-quarters of such travel. Cars follow at 15.1% and two-wheelers at 8.8%, so option A describes the next tier rather than the leading pair. Option C is wrong because air travel does not figure among the leading modes for overnight household journeys in the survey’s findings. Option D is incorrect since auto-rickshaws serve short within-day trips rather than overnight ones. It is also worth noting that rail use for overnight trips is about 22.7% among urban households against about 14.0% among rural households, and that socialising, communication and religious activity drive 70.2% of all overnight household travel.

The correct answer is Rs 180.73. TRAI reports monthly ARPU for wireless service at that level in 2025-26, a rise of 3.59 per cent over the year. Option A is wrong because Rs 174.46 was the ARPU of the previous year, 2024-25, and the report gives it only for comparison. Option C is wrong because Rs 190.66 is the ARPU of prepaid service alone, while the figure for postpaid service was lower at Rs 119.76; the overall wireless ARPU blends both. Option D is wrong because Rs 245.66 is the average revenue from wireless data for every data subscriber in a month, a data specific measure and not the ARPU of wireless service as a whole. Two related data figures worth remembering are average use of 25.51 GB a month for every wireless data subscriber and average realisation of Rs 8.02 for every GB of data.

The correct answer is 93.26 per cent. TRAI's annual report records overall tele-density rising to that level at the end of March 2026 from 85.04 per cent a year earlier, which is why option A is wrong, as it is the figure for the end of March 2025 and not the one being asked. Option B is wrong because 89.88 per cent is the wireless tele-density covering mobile and fixed wireless access connections, a narrower measure that leaves out wireline connections. Option D is wrong because 151.47 per cent is the urban tele-density alone, a figure above hundred because many urban users hold more than one connection; the matching rural figure is 60.46 per cent. Tele-density means telephone connections for every hundred people, so the overall number sits between the urban and rural ones. Candidates should keep the four figures of overall, wireless, urban and rural tele-density clearly apart.