How many Critical Care Blocks has the Government of India sanctioned across States and Union Territories under PM-ABHIM?

The correct answer is Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission, shortened to PM-ABHIM. The Union Health Minister said the mission was framed after the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim of strengthening the ability of the health system to answer future pandemics and public health emergencies while routine healthcare continues without disruption. Option A, the National Health Mission, is an older umbrella programme for health services and is not the scheme under which these blocks and laboratories were sanctioned. Option C, the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, deals with digital health records and identifiers rather than physical infrastructure. Option D, Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, is the health assurance arm of Ayushman Bharat that pays for treatment, not the arm that builds critical care blocks. Candidates should keep the three Ayushman Bharat limbs apart in memory: insurance cover, digital records and health infrastructure.

The correct answer is Andhra Pradesh, 41 parameters. Speaking at the inauguration of the new health facilities in the state, the Union Health Minister praised the Sanjeevani programme for carrying healthcare to people's doorsteps and making testing available for this many health parameters. He appreciated the state's approach of bringing screening closer to communities, said such initiatives are valuable models for strengthening primary healthcare, and expressed interest in examining whether the model could be replicated at the national level. Options A, C and D pair a neighbouring state with a different count of parameters, and each is plausible enough to catch a candidate who remembers the name of the programme but not the state or the number. The safe way to hold this fact is to attach Sanjeevani to Andhra Pradesh, the same state where the Critical Care Blocks and laboratories were opened on the same day.

The correct answer is 43.4 per cent. The Minister cited the decline in out-of-pocket expenditure as an indicator of the growing financial protection available to citizens, and listed it alongside other outcomes of the health-system transformation. Out-of-pocket expenditure is the share of health spending that a household pays directly from its own pocket at the time of treatment, rather than through insurance or government funding, so a falling share signals that public schemes are absorbing more of the cost. In the same address he noted that institutional deliveries have crossed ninety per cent, that more than 1.75 lakh Ayushman Arogya Mandirs are working across the country, and that 16 new AIIMS have been set up in twelve years, taking the total to 23. The other options are nearby percentages of the kind used as distractors, and only the exact figure earns the mark.

The correct answer is CPENGRAMS. The release records that, besides the target cases identified by ministries, grievance cases pending on the CPENGRAMS portal for more than one month were also taken up for redressal during the preparatory phase. It further notes that most resolved cases pertain to pensioners and family pensioners living in rural areas, and that the arrival of grievances from rural areas in online mode through CPENGRAMS and other ministry portals is bridging the digital divide. Option A, CPGRAMS, is the strongest distractor of the four, because the two names differ by only three letters and CPGRAMS is the wider public grievance portal, while the one named here is the pension-specific system. Option C, Bhavishya, and option D, Anubhav, are genuine initiatives connected with pensioners, which is exactly why they are placed here, but neither is the portal named in this release. Read such acronyms letter by letter before answering.

The correct answer is 7 July 2026 to 31 August 2026. The Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare started Special Campaign 3 on the earlier of those dates, for the timely and qualitative redressal of long-pending pension grievances, claims and issues, and the campaign concluded on the later one. It had a preparatory phase, in which pending cases were identified, and an execution phase, in which the department coordinated with ministries and held two mid-campaign review meetings. Option A and option C offer neat round periods of the kind that campaigns often use, which is why they feel plausible to a student recalling only the season. Option D stretches the start back to the beginning of the financial year while keeping the correct end date, and is the trap for anyone who remembers only one of the two dates. Note that annual campaigns of this kind have been organised since 2024, and this was the third edition.