What position did Team India secure at the WorldSkills Competition held in Shanghai?

The correct answer is 19 October 2026. The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship reopened the registration window for the IndiaSkills Competition 2026-27 up to this date, after many requests from institutions and from young people who had not been able to apply earlier. Eligible candidates must complete their applications on the Skill India Digital Hub by that date. Option A is the day on which the Prime Minister hosted the WorldSkills Shanghai competitors at his residence, which is the event that set off the renewed interest, so it is an easy number to confuse. Options B and D are not dates announced by the ministry. The reopening is meant to widen participation, and the ministry has asked state governments, union territory administrations, Industrial Training Institutes, polytechnics, colleges, skill training institutions and industry partners to spread the information.

The correct answer is the National Skill Development Corporation, abbreviated as NSDC. IndiaSkills 2026-27 is organised under the aegis of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship with NSDC as the implementation partner, and the competition covers 63 industry relevant skill categories spanning manufacturing, engineering, construction, digital technologies, the creative industries and services. Options B, C and D name real institutions working in vocational education and training, which is what makes them plausible, but none of them is named as the implementation partner here. Candidates should also remember the structure of the competition, which provides a pathway through district or zonal, state, regional and national levels, so that talented young people can show their skills, receive expert guidance and work towards representing India at international skill competitions.

The correct answer is six silver medals and 20 Medallions for Excellence. That was the haul with which India finished tenth globally at WorldSkills Shanghai, an improvement on the thirteenth position at WorldSkills Lyon in 2024. Option A changes the metal to gold, option C changes it to bronze and reduces the medallion count, and option D halves the number of silver medals, so each of them alters one part of a figure that must be remembered exactly. The Medallion for Excellence is awarded to competitors who reach a high standard without finishing on the podium, which is why the count of 20 is considerably larger than the medal count. India's contingent of 70 competitors across 63 skills was its largest ever at the event, and the Prime Minister hosted the team at his residence on 9 October 2026.

The correct answer is 2020. In that year the Government of India renamed the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme as the National TB Elimination Programme, a change that reflects the aim of ending the disease in India ahead of the global target year of 2030. The programme rests on the pillars of Detect, Treat, Prevent and Build, and the National Strategic Plan to End TB in India 2020-25 was announced in June 2020 with the same four pillars. Option A is the year the Nikshay Poshan Yojana began, under which each notified patient receives 1,000 rupees a month and 4,454.68 crore rupees have gone to 1.38 crore beneficiaries. Option C is the year the Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan was launched, on 9 September 2022, as an additional component of the programme. Option D is the year of the WHO report cited for the decline figures.

The correct answer is 46,118. Under the intensified TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan, that many Gram Panchayats have been awarded TB free certification, and the same drive has taken cumulative screenings past 28.1 crore, provided TB Preventive Treatment to over 20 lakh people and added 5.7 lakh new Nikshay Mitras. Option A echoes the screening figure of 28.1 crore and option D echoes the 1.38 crore beneficiaries of the Nikshay Poshan Yojana, so both are distractors drawn from other numbers in the same record. Option C is close to the count of new Nikshay Mitras, which is 5.7 lakh, but is not the panchayat figure. The response has also been accelerated by a 34-fold increase in X-ray screening through handheld units, by the TB Mukt Bharat App with its chatbot Khushi and by AI driven triage tools.