In which district is Sakaria Gram Panchayat, which reported collecting a monthly user charge of Rs 150 for drinking water?

The correct answer is the eleventh edition. The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, which works under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, organised the eleventh Sujal Gram Samvad as a virtual multilingual dialogue with Gram Panchayat representatives and village communities on operating and maintaining rural drinking water systems. Options A, B and D are wrong because the edition announced was the eleventh, not the ninth, tenth or twelfth; the dialogue is a running series and each edition takes up a fresh set of villages. This edition featured grassroots interactions across four Gram Panchayat headquartered villages, in Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh, Alipurduar in West Bengal, Bokaro in Jharkhand and Nubra in Ladakh, and it was chaired by the Secretary of the Department, Ashok K. K. Meena, with the Mission Director of the National Jal Jeevan Mission also taking part.

The correct answer is the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, known as DDWS, which functions under the Ministry of Jal Shakti and runs the Jal Jeevan Mission. The Samvad is its platform for speaking directly to Gram Panchayat representatives, Village Water and Sanitation Committee members and villagers about keeping rural water supply schemes working. Option A is wrong because rural development handles a different set of programmes and was not the organiser here. Option C is wrong because that department deals with river development and water resources rather than household drinking water service delivery, although it also sits under the Ministry of Jal Shakti. Option D is wrong because Panchayati Raj institutions were the participants in this dialogue, not its organiser; the Secretary of DDWS chaired the session and stressed that Panchayats must own operation and maintenance, collect user charges and protect their water sources.

The correct answer is 318. The VGPP framework identifies that many types of permissible works, spread over the four thematic areas of the mission. A Viksit Gram Panchayat Plan is prepared with the participation of the Gram Sabha, which also recommends and approves it. The process starts with an inventory of assets, infrastructure and service gaps in the panchayat, including assets built under central and state schemes, and then uses GIS along with Yuktdhara and PM Gati Shakti so that spending is not duplicated. Options A, B and D are plausible-looking counts but none of them is the figure given for permissible works. Remember also that these plans are consolidated at block, district, state and national level, and that the consolidated version feeds the Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack.

The correct answer is 1 July 2026. The Act was passed in 2025 and was brought into force on that date, after which it was rolled out in every rural area of the country. The changeover from the earlier rural employment guarantee law was described as seamless, because the digital systems that support verification, monitoring and payment were already working when the new framework began. Option A is the start of the financial year and is a natural guess, but it is not the commencement date. Option C is a date associated with several government campaigns and anniversaries, not with this statute. Option D is the start of the calendar year and has no connection with the mission. Candidates should pair the commencement date with the progress cut-off used in the backgrounder, which reports figures as they stood on 24 September 2026.

The correct answer is 125 days. The law provides a statutory guarantee of wage employment for 125 days in every financial year, and the guarantee is available to every rural household whose adult members volunteer for unskilled manual work. Option A is the figure people remember from the older rural employment law that this framework has replaced, which makes it the commonest wrong choice in the paper. Option C and option D are higher than anything the statute promises and appear in no official statement about the mission. Along with the number of days, remember that the guarantee is tied to four thematic areas: water security, core rural infrastructure, livelihood-related infrastructure and protection against extreme weather events. The framework also aims at empowerment, growth, convergence and saturation, and it works through plans prepared at the gram panchayat level and approved by the Gram Sabha.