According to the Vice-President, the number of medical colleges in India has grown from 387 before 2014 to what figure?

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 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.

The correct answer is Bengaluru. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs began this round of regional reviews there, taking up the southern States, and the Kolkata meeting a month later was the second in the series and covered eight eastern and central States. Option A, Hyderabad, is a plausible distractor because Andhra Pradesh figured prominently at the Kolkata conference as a guest State sharing its practices on digitisation of titles, but the State was not the host of either meeting. Option C, Chennai, is wrong: no conference of this series was held there, although Tamil Nadu falls in the southern group that the first meeting covered. Option D, Guwahati, is wrong too, and the clue is that Assam was named at Kolkata as one of the States holding a large share of pending claims, which makes it a participant rather than a host. Remember the order of the two venues.

The correct answer is about 25 lakh. The Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs gave the national position as on 31 August 2026, and that is the number of titles handed over to forest dwellers so far. Option D, about 54 lakh, is the number of claims received in all, which is the figure candidates most often swap with the titles figure. Option A, about 11 lakh, is the number of claims still waiting for a decision at one stage or another, concentrated in a few districts of Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Assam. Option B, about 18 lakh, is the number of claims that have been rejected, and the conference asked States to look at those rejections again under the Act and its Rules. Learn the four numbers as one set, claims received, titles given, claims pending and claims rejected, because a question can be set on any one of them.