The capacity building programme on urban service delivery at Mussoorie is organised by NCGG under which department?

The correct answer is Shrutlekh. During the ice-breaking session of the capacity building programme on urban service delivery, the Digital India BHASHINI Division deployed Shrutlekh to translate speech as it was spoken, working in both directions between English and Spanish so that delegates from Spanish-speaking countries could take part without a language barrier. The platform is to remain available through the course, which concludes on 23 October 2026, subject to operational requirements. The other three names were not the platform used for this deployment. The deployment illustrates the division's Voice-First Multilingual AI approach, which aims to make digital services available through speech in many languages. Candidates should pair the name Shrutlekh with the Mussoorie programme and with the English and Spanish pairing, and should remember that the BHASHINI mobile application was also demonstrated to the visiting officials.

The correct answer is 2,353. BHASHINI, which serves as India's Language Digital Public Infrastructure, has had its language technologies built into that many government platforms, and these include more than 800 government websites, so option D names only the websites and not the full count of platforms. Options A and C are not the reported figures. The platform supports 36 Indian languages in text, 23 Indian languages in voice and 35 international languages, and it has delivered more than 9 billion cumulative artificial intelligence inferences, with the daily count running above 24 million. These numbers explain why the division was able to supply live translation at a training course for officials from several countries. Remember the set together: 2,353 platforms, over 800 websites, 36 languages in text and 23 in voice.

The correct answer is 2013 and 2014. Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Phailin crossed the coast on 12 October 2013, and Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Hudhud crossed on 12 October 2014. The two storms are remembered together because they fell on the same calendar date a year apart, and because the India Meteorological Department predicted both accurately, which earned international recognition for the country’s early-warning capability and marked important milestones in India’s disaster preparedness. That coincidence of dates is the reason the new Cyclone Warning and Marine Weather Services Decision Support System was dedicated to the nation on 12 October. Options A, C and D pair the storms with the wrong years and therefore break the link with the launch date of the platform, which is what gives the date its significance for Indian forecasters.

The correct answer is the Director General of Meteorology, IMD. The bi-annual Pre-Cyclone Exercise Meeting for the post-monsoon season, covering October to December 2026, was held under the chairmanship of Dr. Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director General of Meteorology at the India Meteorological Department, who is also the 3rd Vice President of the World Meteorological Organisation. Options A and D are wrong because the exercise is a technical review chaired by the head of the weather office, not by a minister or by the Home Ministry, although the Ministry of Home Affairs did attend as a user agency. Option C is wrong because the National Disaster Management Authority was one of more than thirty organisations that joined the meeting as participants; the chair stayed with the IMD, which issues cyclone warnings for the country and runs the Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre at New Delhi.

The correct answer is the India Meteorological Department. The IMD, which works under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, dedicated the Cyclone Warning and Marine Weather Services Decision Support System to the nation on 12 October 2026. The platform is an interactive WebGIS system that shows storm track and intensity, the cone of uncertainty, wind distribution, storm surge warnings and district-wise rainfall warnings in one place, and it is hosted on the IMD website and on the website of the Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre at New Delhi. Option A is wrong because the National Disaster Management Authority was one of the user agencies attending the launch, not the owner of the platform. Option D is wrong for the same reason: the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting took part as a scientific participant. Option C is wrong because the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services was not named as the body behind this system.