How many traffic corridors of Delhi will the Intelligent Traffic Management System cover?

The correct answer is Rs 1,789.52 crore, the estimated cost inclusive of taxes for the project the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared for implementation by Delhi Police. Options A, B and D are wrong because each alters the figure while keeping its shape, a common way of setting a distractor in an examination. The money buys a system that covers 42 identified traffic corridors, with 1,092 Adaptive Traffic Control System installations and 1,029 enforcement locations. Implementation runs in three phases over 24 months and is followed by five years of operation and maintenance, each phase beginning only after the earlier one has been judged against prescribed testing, commissioning, acceptance and performance parameters. Delhi Police will carry out the work through a Master System Integrator selected by competitive bidding.

The correct answer is C-DAC. It will provide technical support as Project Management Consultant, which covers technical scrutiny, monitoring, validation and acceptance both while the system is being installed and later during operation and maintenance. Options B, C and D name other well-known public technical bodies and are wrong, because none of them was given this role in the approval. The distinction worth holding on to is between the two agencies in the project: Delhi Police is the implementing force and will get the work done through a Master System Integrator selected by competitive bidding, while C-DAC sits alongside as the consultant that checks the technology. The system itself is to follow open standards and application programming interfaces so that it can be integrated and scaled up later.

The correct answer is 1,092. That is the number of Adaptive Traffic Control System installations the project will put in place. Option A, 1,029, is the trap in this question: it is the number of enforcement locations, a closely similar figure in the same approval, and the two are easily swapped. Options C and D are wrong because neither number belongs to the project. Adaptive control is the heart of the scheme: instead of fixed timings, signals adjust to the traffic of the moment and are coordinated along a corridor, which cuts avoidable stoppages and delays. The enforcement locations do separate work, catching red-light and stop-line offences, speeding, wrong-way driving, helmet and seat-belt violations, illegal parking and mobile phone use at the wheel.

The correct answer is the Food Corporation of India. The Department said that its attached and subordinate offices and public sector undertakings are taking part, and it named the Food Corporation of India, the Central Warehousing Corporation and the Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority among them. All three work in the field of foodgrain procurement, storage and warehousing regulation, which is why they sit under this Department. Option A, the National Highways Authority of India, works under the road transport ministry. Option C, the Airports Authority of India, comes under civil aviation. Option D, the Indian Space Research Organisation, is the national space agency under the Department of Space. None of these three falls within the food and public distribution portfolio, so they are not part of this departmental drive.

The correct answer is the collection, segregation and disposal of e-waste. The Department said that this year special focus is being given to electronic waste, along with the standing objectives of cleanliness, disposal of pending matters and better use of office space, and it identified a specific number of e-waste items for disposal during the preparatory phase. Option B is wrong because nodal officers were not recruited for the drive; they already exist and are being used to review progress in regular meetings. Option C is wrong because building warehouses is not part of this administrative drive, even though warehousing organisations are participating in it. Option D concerns agricultural price policy, which has nothing to do with a campaign on pendency, record management and waste disposal.