Sericulture is estimated to provide employment to how many persons during 2025-26?

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.

The correct answer is 10.853 million tonnes. The Wantrag Limestone Block covers 5.36 hectares and carries that estimated limestone resource, and it has been explored up to the G-3 stage, a stage reached with 159 metres of drilling. Option A is wrong because that figure belongs to the other block in the same auction, the Koot-Kapran Limestone Block, which spreads over 22.43 hectares; swapping the two estimates is the commonest error on this question. Option B is wrong because no such estimate was announced for either holding. Option D is wrong for the same reason, the figure being larger than anything reported here. Note the contrast worth remembering: Wantrag is the smaller block by area but the richer one by estimated resource.

The correct answer is limestone. Both the blocks auctioned in the Union Territory are limestone blocks, named the Koot-Kapran Limestone Block and the Wantrag Limestone Block, and both lie in Anantnag district. Option A, bauxite, is wrong because no bauxite block figures in this auction; bauxite is associated with other states and not with these two blocks. Option C, iron ore, is wrong for the same reason, as the resource estimates announced here are limestone estimates. Option D, manganese ore, is wrong as well, since neither block was put up as a manganese holding. Aspirants should tie the mineral to the place, because questions on a first-ever auction usually ask for the mineral and the district together: limestone, Anantnag, Jammu & Kashmir.

The correct answer is Anantnag. Both the Koot-Kapran Limestone Block and the Wantrag Limestone Block lie in Anantnag district of the Union Territory, and the first of them is located more precisely in Koot and Kapran villages of Dooru Tehsil. Option A, Baramulla, is wrong because no block in this auction is placed there. Option B, Udhampur, is wrong for the same reason, and it has been offered because it is a familiar district name from the Jammu region. Option D, Kathua, is wrong as well, since neither of the auctioned holdings falls in that district. The district is the detail a paper setter is most likely to combine with the mineral, so remember the pair together, along with the tehsil name Dooru for the Koot-Kapran block.