Kondapalli woodcraft, seen in one of the auctioned mementos, belongs to which state?

The correct answer is Namami Gange. Gifts and mementos presented to the Prime Minister are offered through a public e-auction, and the money they raise is directed to the Namami Gange programme, which works to conserve and rejuvenate the river Ganga. This is what gives the initiative its purpose: an object of personal courtesy becomes a contribution to a national mission. Option A, the Swachh Bharat Mission, deals with sanitation and cleanliness and is not named as the recipient of these proceeds. Option C, the Jal Jeevan Mission, is concerned with household tap water supply, and option D, the Atal Bhujal Yojana, with groundwater management; neither of them receives money from the auction of the mementos. Aspirants should link the PM Mementos e-auction firmly with Ganga conservation, since this pairing is the most frequently asked part of the scheme.

The correct answer is 31 October 2026. The e-auction is currently live and its closing date has been pushed to the end of October, so that bidders have more time to study the collection and place their offers on the official PM Mementos portal. The eighteen mementos from Andhra Pradesh are part of that live collection. Option B, 30 November 2026, and option D, 31 December 2026, are later dates and do not match the extension that has been announced. Option C, 15 October 2026, falls earlier and would cut the bidding period short. For examination purposes the useful combination to remember is the number of mementos from the state, the ministry that runs the initiative, the destination of the proceeds and this closing date, since questions on such auctions are usually set around exactly those four details.

The correct answer is about 29.50 lakh persons. The minister cited this estimate to show how much livelihood depends on the sector, which is the reason seed quality and modern infrastructure matter well beyond the rearing shed. Options A, B and D alter the leading digit of the real figure and are the standard distractors for an employment number. The context is worth remembering with it: the Central Silk Board’s seed network covers both the mulberry and the Vanya sectors, with its national silkworm seed organisation serving the mulberry side and two separate organisations supporting Vanya seed. The minister argued that quality silkworm seed, modern infrastructure, technology and skill development together decide whether sericulture stays productive, and he linked the effort to an Aatmanirbhar North-East.

The correct answer is Rowriah, Jorhat, Assam. The Central Silk Board’s Silkworm Seed Production Centre there received a newly constructed grainage building and cold storage facility, inaugurated by the Union Minister of State for Textiles under the North-East Region Textile Promotion Scheme. Option B names another locality near the same town and is the kind of near-miss that catches a candidate who remembers only the district. Options C and D name places long associated with silk research and seed work elsewhere in the country, which is precisely why they are planted here; neither features in this inauguration. The facility can produce 30 lakh disease-free layings of mulberry hybrid seed a year and preserve up to 1 crore of them, so quality seed should reach the region’s farmers on time.

The correct answer is about 84 per cent, which works out to 73 metric tonnes of Muga silk. The trap here is option C: 74 per cent is Assam’s share of Eri silk production, amounting to 2,131 metric tonnes, and the two shares are routinely swapped in question papers, so the pairing must be learnt together. Options A and B are invented figures. Muga is the golden silk for which Assam is known, and the minister pointed to Mission Senehjori as a way of turning it into a high-value product for global markets. For completeness, the State recorded 6 per cent of mulberry raw silk output, or 9 metric tonnes, in 2026-27 up to July, and the whole North-Eastern Region recorded 142 metric tonnes of mulberry silk in the same period.