What is India's overall literacy rate according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey 2025?

The correct answer is ten. The States and Union Territories that declared full literacy in that period are Ladakh, Mizoram, Goa, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir, which comes to ten in all. Option A, five, is wrong because it counts only half the list. Option B, eight, is wrong for the same reason and leaves out two of the ten names. Option D, fourteen, is wrong because no such number of States or Union Territories has crossed the mark; the declaration rests on reaching 95 per cent literacy, which is the level the Department of School Education and Literacy treats as full literacy, and only ten have reported it so far. Remembering the list matters because questions often ask which State is not among them.

The correct answer is 1,037.90 crore rupees. ULLAS, also known as the Nav Bharat Saaksharta Karyakram or the New India Literacy Programme, aims to cover 5 crore learners over 2022-27, and that outlay is the sum sanctioned for the period. Options B and D simply alter the digits of the true figure and have no basis, and option C is a round number that is not the sanctioned amount either. The scheme is centrally sponsored, is aligned with the National Education Policy and works for adults of 15 years and above who missed formal schooling. It counts about 4.03 crore registered learners and more than 52.20 lakh volunteers, while over 3.3 crore learners have appeared for the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Assessment Test. Learn the outlay together with the learner target, since both are asked.

The correct answer is Samagra Shiksha. The National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy, shortened to NIPUN Bharat, was begun in July 2021 under the aegis of Samagra Shiksha and works on the foundational stage covering children of 3 to 8 years, with the goal of universal foundational literacy and numeracy by 2026-27 so that every child gains the basic skills by Grade 2. Option A is wrong because PM POSHAN is the scheme that serves one hot cooked meal to school students and is about nutrition, not reading and numeracy. Option C is wrong because PM e-VIDYA brings together digital, online and on-air learning. Option D is wrong because PM SHRI is the scheme to develop exemplar schools. Samagra Shiksha itself subsumed Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan and Teacher Education.

The correct answer is 15.83 million. Mobile Number Portability allows a subscriber to shift to another operator while keeping the same telephone number, and that many requests were filed during the month under review. Option A is wrong because no figure of that size appears in the month's portability data, and it would understate the churn considerably. Option C is wrong for the same reason; it belongs to none of the indicators reported for portability. Option D is wrong because requests did not climb to that level in the month. Read this indicator with the rest of the release: broadband subscribers at 1101.21 million, overall tele-density at 95.07 per cent, urban tele-density at 155.00 per cent and rural at 61.12 per cent, since examiners like to pair one headline figure with one sub-indicator.

The correct answer is 1101.21 million, the broadband base at the close of that month. Option A is wrong because that is the figure for the end of the previous month, July 2026; the difference between the two is what produces the monthly growth of 0.61 per cent, so quoting it means reading the earlier month by mistake. Option C is wrong because that figure counts active wireless subscribers on the date of peak Visitor Location Register, a measure of connections actually in use at a moment rather than of broadband accounts. Option D is wrong because that number is not a subscriber count at all; it is the number of operators whose returns the regulator used to compile the month's data. Alongside these figures, remember that overall tele-density stood at 95.07 per cent and that Mobile Number Portability requests came to 15.83 million.