How many States and Union Territories sent participants to the National Workshop on SDG Budgeting?

The correct answer is the State Support Mission, the initiative under which NITI Aayog works with states on planning and budgeting, and under which this workshop was held with the Government of West Bengal and technical support from the United Nations Development Programme. Option A names the programme that tracks development indicators in selected districts, a different vehicle altogether. Option C is the innovation and entrepreneurship arm of NITI Aayog and has no part in budget tagging. Option D is the evaluation office within the body, which assesses programmes rather than running state support engagements. Candidates should remember the three-part arrangement here: NITI Aayog as organiser, the state government as host and partner, and UNDP as the source of technical support. The venue was Kolkata and the date was the twenty-ninth of September in the year 2026.

The correct answer is NITI Aayog, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India and the United Nations Development Programme. The guide was taken up at the workshop as a working framework for aligning state budgets with the Goals, and the presence of the national auditor among its authors is the detail that gives the question its edge: tagging expenditure is not only a planning exercise but also one that must stand up to reconciliation, quality assurance, reporting and performance audit. Option B replaces the auditor and the development programme with a commission, the central bank and a multilateral lender, none of which authored it. Option C swaps in the statistics ministry and the markets regulator, both of which merely attended. Option D names the wrong United Nations agency, since UNESCO deals with education, science and culture rather than development budgeting.

The correct answer is Haryana, Odisha, Meghalaya and West Bengal, the four states whose government representatives described how they have implemented and institutionalised SDG budgeting. The host state added a specific claim worth remembering: its Additional Chief Secretary for Finance said West Bengal has for the first time mapped its budget to the goal level of the Goals and has built the exercise into its Integrated Financial Management System. The other three options are lists of states that did not present at this workshop. In questions of this kind the host state is almost always on the correct list, which gives a candidate a useful first filter, and the remaining names then have to be recalled as a set rather than guessed one by one.

The correct answer is Peak. Ten of the twenty-eight entries are listed as peaks, namely Atisha Giri, Kanishka Peak, Martand Giri, Zorawar Peak, Rinchen Zangpo, Sakyasri Giri, Marpa Lotsava Ri, Milarepa Kangri, Shiva Ri and Maheshvara Ri, which is more than any other feature type on the list. Option C, land area, is the second largest group with seven entries, namely Brangsa, Kuksel, Dehra Compass, Gogra, Kumarayana Point, Panglung and Shamal Lungpa, so it is close but not the answer. Option A, pass, covers only two entries, Chapchingal Pass and Shachmirk Pass. Option B, glacier, also covers only two, Skamri Glacier and Parpik. The remaining entries are three mountains and one each of valley, river, lake and water body, which is why peaks remain the single largest category in this set of names.

The correct answer is the Survey of India. The twenty-eight places and features were marked with their standard names on the Survey of India's official map of the Union Territory of Ladakh, and that map, along with further places and features, can be seen in the state maps section of the Survey of India website. Option A, the Geological Survey of India, is a different body and had no part in this naming exercise as announced. Option C, the Indian Space Research Organisation, is the national space agency and was not named in the announcement at all. Option D, the National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation, also produces maps, but the announcement is specific that the official map in question is the Survey of India's map of the Union Territory. The naming itself was done by the Centre in consultation with the Union Territory of Ladakh, and the Ministry of Home Affairs made it public.