The Digital Connectivity Rating Platform gives effect to the regulations on rating of properties for digital connectivity framed in which year?
- A.2018
- B.2020
- C.2022
- D.2024
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Explanation
The correct answer is 2024. The platform carries out the framework prescribed by the regulator's rules of 2024 on the rating of properties for digital connectivity. Those rules were later amended by a notification issued on 13 May 2026, and the process now followed is the one written into the Rating Manual of 2026, which was brought out on 9 June 2026. So three dates hang together in this story: the parent rules, the amendment and the manual. The other options are years in which no such rating framework was notified by the regulator, and none of them figures in the launch. A careless reading often mixes up the year of the parent regulations with the year of the amendment; remember that the parent rules came first and the amendment and the manual both belong to 2026.
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Practice Questions
Which body launched the Digital Connectivity Rating (DCR) Platform?
- A.Department of Telecommunications
- B.Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
- C.Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
- D.Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
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The Digital Connectivity Rating Platform was launched by the telecom regulator, which functions under the Ministry of Communications, and the launch was announced on 25 September 2026.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is not a parameter assessed under the Digital Connectivity Rating framework?
- A.Fibre readiness of the property
- B.Availability of mobile network
- C.Carpet area and the number of parking slots
- D.Wi-Fi infrastructure in the building
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The rating framework is about how well a building is wired and covered for communication, so its yardsticks are fibre readiness, whether a mobile network is available inside, the connectivity solutions built into the structure and the Wi-Fi the property offers, with benchmarks that differ from one category of property…
Read the full explanation →As of 6 November 2026, how many equipment items were listed on the I-STEM portal?
- A.4,044
- B.18,250
- C.31,540
- D.45,000
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As of 6 November 2026, the day its API integration with the Startup India Portal was launched, I-STEM listed 31,540 equipment items across 4,044 registered institutions, giving researchers and innovators a large national pool of scientific resources.
Read the full explanation →Who chaired the launch of the API integration between the Startup India and I-STEM portals on 6 November 2026?
- A.Dr. Parvinder Maini
- B.Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood
- C.Ateesh Kumar Singh
- D.Dr. Vishal Choudhary
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He described the integration as an institutional convergence that can lower R&D costs, avoid duplication of capital-intensive facilities and raise the use of publicly funded infrastructure.
Read the full explanation →What does the acronym I-STEM, whose portal was integrated with the Startup India Portal in November 2026, stand for?
- A.Indian Scheme for Technology and Engineering Mentorship
- B.Indian Science, Technology and Engineering Facilities Map
- C.Integrated Startup Technology Enablement Mission
- D.Indian Society for Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
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I-STEM is the portal that maps scientific equipment and research facilities across academic and research institutions so that they can be shared.
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