How many lost or stolen mobile handsets have been blocked through Sanchar Saathi?

The correct answer is 5,000 crore rupees. The Financial Fraud Risk Indicator, built partly from what citizens report on Sanchar Saathi, provides risk-based intelligence on mobile numbers that may be linked to financial fraud, and the ministry credits it with preventing suspected losses of more than 5,000 crore rupees. The intelligence is shared through the Digital Intelligence Platform with banks, payment service providers, telecom operators and law enforcement agencies, who build it into their transaction monitoring so that a suspicious payment can be stopped before the money leaves an account. Options A, B and D are figures that do not appear in the statement. Candidates should keep the two abbreviations apart: the Financial Fraud Risk Indicator is the risk signal itself, while the Digital Intelligence Platform is the channel that carries it to more than 1,600 connected stakeholders.

The correct answer is Chakshu. It is the reporting facility on Sanchar Saathi through which a citizen can flag suspicious calls, SMS or WhatsApp messages, including fake KYC and bill-payment alerts, people impersonating government, police or bank officials, and fraudulent investment, job or loan offers. Chakshu has received 12.80 lakh inputs, which led to action in 59.82 lakh cases and the disconnection of more than 50 lakh mobile connections. Option B, Trusted Contact Details, is a different service that lets a user verify the genuine customer care numbers, email addresses and website links of banks and financial institutions. Option C, the Digital Intelligence Platform, is not a citizen-facing service at all but the secure channel that carries fraud intelligence to banks and the police. Option D, Keep Yourself Aware, is the awareness section on prevailing fraud trends such as fake loan apps and fake traffic challans.

The correct answer is 21. The Sanchar Saathi mobile application is offered in English, Hindi and 21 regional languages, so that a user anywhere in the country can reach the same services in a language of their own, and its total downloads have crossed 2.8 crore. Options A, B and D are plausible but incorrect, and candidates often confuse this count with the number of languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, which is a separate matter entirely. The multilingual app sits alongside the portal, which carries public dashboards and awareness material on telecom safety and fraud prevention. Remember the pairing of the app languages with the download figure, and keep both apart from the portal statistics such as the 30 crore visits recorded since the launch in May 2023.

The correct answer is the Department of Science and Technology. The Technology Development Board, the body that signed the agreement with BigEndian Semiconductors and that administers the Research Development and Innovation Fund, works under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Its Secretary is Rajesh Kumar Pathak, who described semiconductors as the foundation of almost every emerging technology. Option A is the distractor to watch, since the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology also runs chip-related schemes, but it is not the parent of the Technology Development Board. Option C is wrong because the Ministry of Heavy Industries handles capital goods and automobile manufacturing policy, not research funding of this kind. Option D is wrong because the Department of Telecommunications deals with telecom networks and spectrum. For the exam, link three names together: TDB, the RDI Fund and the Department of Science and Technology.

The correct answer is TRL-9. The agreement states that the project must lift the technology from Technology Readiness Level 5, where it stands now, to Technology Readiness Level 9, the stage at which a product has proved itself in actual use rather than in a laboratory. BigEndian Semiconductors will spend the board's money on further development, validation, integration, testing and scale-up precisely in order to make that climb. Options A, B and C each name an intermediate rung the technology will pass through on the way, but none of them is the destination written into the agreement, so each is incomplete rather than merely wrong. The logic behind the target is worth remembering: the Research Development and Innovation Fund is meant for technologies that need heavy investment to travel the last distance from advanced development to commercial deployment, which is exactly the stretch between TRL-5 and TRL-9.