Where was the 15th meeting of the AITIGA Joint Committee held?

The correct answer is three of eight. The Joint Committee has eight sub-committees, and three of them held hybrid meetings on the margins of the 15th round in Jakarta. They were the Sub-Committee on Legal and Institutional Issues, known as SC-LII, the Sub-Committee on National Treatment on Market Access, known as SC-NTMA, and the Sub-Committee on Rules of Origin, known as SC-ROO. Option A misstates both the number that met and the total, since there are eight sub-committees and not six. Option C overstates how many met, and option D would mean every sub-committee sat, which did not happen. Candidates should also note the direction issued at the end of the round, namely that all sub-committees must speed up the chapters still pending under the AITIGA Review and attach firm, time-bound deliverables to them.

The correct answer is January 2027 in India. At the close of the Jakarta round the two sides fixed the next Joint Committee sitting for January 2027, to be held in India and again in hybrid mode. That meeting will review what the sub-committees have delivered in the interval and give further guidance so that the negotiations are concluded on schedule. Option A is wrong because Indonesia hosted the round that has just ended, at the ASEAN Secretariat. Option C and option D name months and ASEAN host countries that appear nowhere in the announcement; Singapore and Viet Nam sent delegates to Jakarta but were not named as hosts. The examination point is the handover of the host role from ASEAN to India, with the Indian round carrying forward the AITIGA Review.

The correct answer is the 22nd ASEAN India Summit in 2025, where the Prime Minister announced that India would support the ASEAN Power Grid initiative by training four hundred professionals in grid connectivity. The Minister of State recalled this commitment in Manila while making the case for deeper cooperation under the ASEAN India Plan of Action. Option B is wrong because the announcement belongs to the India-ASEAN track rather than to an East Asia Summit of that year. Option D is wrong since it moves the announcement to the previous edition of the same summit series, a common trap in questions about numbered summits. Option C is wrong; the G20 Summit hosted by India dealt with a far wider agenda and not with this specific training pledge. Remember that the ASEAN Power Grid, regional transmission and multilateral power trade were the areas the Minister highlighted.

The correct answer is Manila, the Philippines, where India was represented by the Minister of State for Power and New and Renewable Energy, Shripad Yesso Naik. Option A, Jakarta, is wrong for this meeting, although it is the seat of the ASEAN Secretariat and therefore a tempting choice in any question about the grouping. Option C, Kuala Lumpur, is wrong here; Malaysia appears in this news for a different reason, as one of the countries a proposed land corridor from Imphal to Singapore would pass through. Option D, Bangkok, is wrong for the same reason, Thailand being another country on that proposed route along with Myanmar. For examinations, link the edition number, twentieth, with the host city and with the two plans the Minister welcomed, the ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation and the ASEAN India Plan of Action for the years from 2026 to 2030.

The correct answer is 558.8 GW. Of this total, the Minister said 308 GW comes from non-fossil sources, which works out to fifty-five per cent of installed capacity, a share that matters because it is the headline measure of the energy transition. The other options are wrong because each changes the figure, and they are the sort of near values a candidate may recall from an earlier quarter, since capacity rises every month. Two related facts deserve equal attention. First, India crossed the halfway mark for non-fossil capacity in June 2025, a full five years before the date set in its Nationally Determined Contribution for 2030. Second, under PM Surya Ghar about 5.01 million rooftop solar systems were in place as on 29 September 2026, serving 5.95 million households.