INS Mangrol takes its name from a coastal town and fishing harbour in which district of Gujarat?

The correct answer is Cochin Shipyard Limited, Kochi. The ship was designed in India and constructed by that yard, and it carries more than 80 per cent indigenous content, which the Navy cites as evidence of India's own strength in warship design, construction and systems integration. Representatives of the yard and of its industry partners, along with micro, small and medium enterprises that worked on the project, were present when the ship was commissioned at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai. Option A, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, is a Mumbai yard but had no part in this particular vessel. Option B, Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers of Kolkata, is likewise not the builder named for this ship. Option D, Hindustan Shipyard at Visakhapatnam, is also incorrect. Only Cochin Shipyard Limited is named as the designer and builder of INS Mangrol, so C alone is right.

The correct answer is the Mahe class. INS Mangrol, with pennant number P82, is the third Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft of that class to enter service with the Indian Navy. Ships of this type are built for the littoral belt, where water is shallow and larger warships are less effective, and they are fitted for anti-submarine warfare, surveillance under water, low intensity maritime operations and tasks tied to mine warfare. Option A, the Arnala class, is not the class named for this ship. Option C, the Kamorta class, refers to larger anti-submarine corvettes rather than shallow water craft of this kind. Option D, the Abhay class, is also wrong. Aspirants should remember both the class name and the fact that Mangrol is the third ship of the class, since questions often turn on the serial position.

The correct answer is the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Naval Command. Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, who holds that appointment, presided over the ceremony at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai, which falls within the area of the Western Naval Command. In his address he spoke of the value of indigenous warships in strengthening maritime surveillance and anti-submarine capability, and of the Navy's commitment to self-reliance in defence manufacturing. Option A, the Chief of Naval Staff, heads the Navy but did not preside on this occasion. Option C names the Southern Naval Command, whose chief is based elsewhere and did not conduct the ceremony. Option D, the Defence Secretary, is a civil servant in the Ministry of Defence; ministry officials attended, but a serving flag officer presides at a commissioning. Hence B is correct.

The correct answer is the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. Pushkar Singh Dhami, who holds that office, flagged in the seventeen-member team at a ceremony in Dehradun, praising the exceptional grit and endurance of the climbers and describing the achievement as an example of courage and a matter of national pride. Option A names the Governor of the state, who did not conduct the ceremony. Option C names the head of the Indian Coast Guard; the force was represented at the event by its Additional Director General, Anand Prakash Badola, who congratulated the team for its teamwork on difficult Himalayan ground. Option D, the Defence Minister, is also incorrect. Aspirants should pair the flag-in ceremony with the city and with the office of the person who received the team.

The correct answer is that the Everest attempt is planned during the force's Swarnim Jayanti, the golden jubilee, in the year given in option A. The Mount Mukut climb was the fifth and concluding phase of an eighteen-month preparatory programme built around that goal, and the operational experience and lessons from it will feed into the final preparations. Option B describes a platinum jubilee, option C a diamond jubilee and option D a centenary; none of these is the occasion named for the planned Everest expedition. Candidates should remember that Swarnim Jayanti means golden jubilee, that it marks fifty years of the force, and that the Mount Mukut summit and the flag-in at Dehradun both belong to the run-up to it.