Veer Gatha participation from CBSE-affiliated schools abroad covered how many countries?

The correct answer is 18 countries. Veer Gatha drew 28,005 students from 91 CBSE-affiliated schools located in 18 countries, which is how the programme stretched beyond India’s borders. Option A is wrong, as 12 is not the country count given for this participation. Option C is wrong for the same reason; no figure of 25 countries appears anywhere in the account of the programme. Option D is a deliberate trap: 91 is the number of CBSE-affiliated schools abroad that joined in, not the number of countries, and swapping the two is the easiest slip to make under examination pressure. Read the three overseas figures as a set, in order, so they are not confused with one another: 28,005 students, 91 schools, 18 countries. The wider programme ran to over 1.92 crore students and 1.9 lakh schools in its fifth edition, and the Gallantry Awards portal now gives each edition a page of its own.