PACT, launched at the 5th e-FAST India Summit, stands for what?

The correct answer is from 201 vehicles to 826 vehicles, a rise of more than four times in a single year, which is the figure NITI Aayog used to show that the electric freight market has begun to move. Option B mixes two separate facts, because the figure of more than 3,000 refers to the electric medium and heavy-duty trucks already in operation across the country and is not the end point of that one-year jump. Options C and D give invented pairs that look plausible because they preserve a similar ratio. A third figure completes the picture: about 800 heavy electric trucks were sold in 2025, which the NITI Aayog Member cited as proof that the corridors still need strategic electrification. Keep the three numbers apart, 201 and 826 for the jump, 3,000 for the running fleet, 800 for one year of heavy truck sales.

The correct answer is about 70 per cent. The NITI Aayog Member used this share to argue that the main freight corridors must be electrified in a planned way rather than left to scattered pilot projects. He placed beside it a second figure that makes the argument sharper: heavy trucks are only 3 to 4 per cent of the vehicle fleet, yet they account for more than a third of the carbon emissions of the transport sector, so a small number of vehicles carries a large part of the problem. Options A, B and D give shares the release does not use. He named three constraints on the market, the fragmentation of logistics operators, the high cost of financing and the absence of coordinated corridor planning, and asked for blended finance and leasing models to bring the cost of capital for an electric truck nearer to that of a diesel truck.

The correct answer is NITI Aayog. The release describes e-FAST India, which expands to Electric Freight Accelerator for Sustainable Transport - India, as a platform led by NITI Aayog that brings government and industry together, including original equipment manufacturers, logistics service providers, financiers, shippers and charge point operators, with a focus on medium and heavy-duty vehicles. Options A and C name ministries that were present and active at the summit, since the Secretary of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways spoke there and an officer of the Ministry of Heavy Industries attended, but neither leads the platform. Option D names the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, which works on energy efficiency standards and did not figure here. Remember also what NITI Aayog is: the apex public policy think tank of the Government of India, charged with catalysing economic development and fostering cooperative federalism.

The correct answer is that kharif crops are sown with the onset of the south-west monsoon. That is why the agriculture ministry publishes a weekly progressive sowing report through the monsoon months and why the position as on 4 September 2026, when the sown area stood at 1086.31 lakh hectares, is treated as an important signal for the year's foodgrain supply. Option B describes the rabi season, whose crops such as wheat and mustard are sown in the cooler months and harvested in spring, and the report under discussion is not a rabi report. Option C is wrong because kharif sowing follows the rains rather than the rabi harvest alone, and much of the acreage is rain fed. Option D is wrong because kharif sowing is spread across rain fed as well as irrigated areas of the country, and not confined to command areas in a winter month.

The correct answer is pulses, and jute and mesta. Pulses were sown on 117.13 lakh hectares against 115.30 lakh hectares a year earlier, and jute and mesta on 6.34 lakh hectares against 6.24 lakh hectares, so these are the only two groups of the report standing above last season. Option A is wrong because rice is the biggest loser of the season, its area falling to 421.82 lakh hectares from 438.19 lakh hectares, and cotton is also down. Option B is wrong because oilseeds slipped to 191.99 lakh hectares and sugarcane to 58.47 lakh hectares. Option D is wrong on both counts, as Shri Anna and coarse cereals came down to 181.39 lakh hectares while cotton came down to 109.17 lakh hectares. Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Telangana drove the gain in pulses, and Bihar and West Bengal the gain in jute.