Project VeerAI aims to take its technology from Technology Readiness Level 5 to which level?

The correct answer is Rs 130 crore. The Technology Development Board, which works under the Department of Science and Technology, agreed to give BigEndian Semiconductors of Bengaluru exactly this amount out of the Research Development and Innovation Fund, and the money is being routed through Optional Convertible Debt rather than as an outright grant. Option C is the trap most students fall into, because Rs 260 crore is the total cost of Project VeerAI, not the board's share; the board is paying half the bill, so the two figures must be kept apart in memory. Options A and D are round numbers that look plausible for a chip programme but match nothing in the agreement, neither the board's share nor the project's cost. A quick way to hold this is to pair the two numbers together: the whole project costs Rs 260 crore, and the Technology Development Board carries Rs 130 crore of it.

The correct answer is a camera-focused AI Vision System-on-Chip. Project VeerAI is building a single piece of silicon that lets a camera do its own thinking, combining artificial intelligence processing with security, privacy and connectivity features on a sovereign technology platform. Its first market is CCTV and surveillance in India and the Global South, with defence, automotive, industrial and medical uses planned afterwards. Option C is wrong, and is worth noting carefully, because the programme deliberately chose an application-specific chip over a general-purpose processor: a narrow design reaches buyers faster and fits one industry's needs more exactly. Option A is wrong because nothing in the project concerns memory or data centre storage. Option D is wrong because quantum computing is a separate field altogether and forms no part of this agreement. The phrase to remember is AI Vision SoC, built for cameras.

The correct answer is the Department of Science and Technology. The Technology Development Board, the body that signed the agreement with BigEndian Semiconductors and that administers the Research Development and Innovation Fund, works under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Its Secretary is Rajesh Kumar Pathak, who described semiconductors as the foundation of almost every emerging technology. Option A is the distractor to watch, since the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology also runs chip-related schemes, but it is not the parent of the Technology Development Board. Option C is wrong because the Ministry of Heavy Industries handles capital goods and automobile manufacturing policy, not research funding of this kind. Option D is wrong because the Department of Telecommunications deals with telecom networks and spectrum. For the exam, link three names together: TDB, the RDI Fund and the Department of Science and Technology.

The correct answer is fifth. India has emerged as the fifth nation in the world to design and build an indigenous 4G stack of its own, a milestone the Ministry of Communications treats as proof of growing self-reliance in developing and deploying advanced telecom technology. Options A, B and D give the wrong rank and are the kind of near misses a paper setter uses when a milestone is stated as an ordinal. Along with this achievement, the figures to remember for the country's network are 1.01 billion broadband subscribers and over one billion internet subscribers, 5G services reaching 99.9 per cent of districts and 85 per cent of the population, and 4G connectivity in 98.7 per cent of villages. These numbers were cited while the arrangements for the tenth India Mobile Congress at Yashobhoomi were being reviewed, so the ordinal and the coverage figures are often asked together.

The correct answer is Yashobhoomi, Dwarka, New Delhi. The Union Minister of Communications visited this convention centre to review the final arrangements before the opening of the tenth India Mobile Congress, and the exhibition halls, sessions and investor meetings of the event are housed there. Options A, C and D name other well known venues in the national capital that host conferences and exhibitions, but none of them is the site of this edition of the congress. The distinction matters because questions on summits and expositions almost always pair the edition with its venue and its theme. For this event the three go together as follows: the tenth edition, the theme 'Scale Without Boundaries', and Yashobhoomi in Dwarka as the venue, with the Prime Minister inaugurating the congress on 8 October 2026. Only option B is therefore correct.