Which mantra did the Prime Minister give at the UPSC centenary to describe the place of the citizen in governance?

The correct answer is Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. The hundredth-year celebrations of the Union Public Service Commission were held there, and the Prime Minister took part along with chairpersons of the Public Service Commissions of the states. Option A, Vigyan Bhawan, is a regular conference venue in the capital but was not the place chosen for this event. Option C, Rashtrapati Bhavan, is the official residence of the President and hosts investiture and oath ceremonies, not this celebration. Option D, Yashobhoomi in Dwarka, is another large convention centre in Delhi and was not the venue either. Bharat Mandapam is the correct choice to remember, since the same venue hosts many national events and often appears in questions on where a particular gathering took place. Along with the venue, note that a commemorative stamp, a special coin and a compilation of 100 significant case laws were released on the occasion.

The correct answer is 1926. The Commission began in that year under colonial rule, and the Prime Minister contrasted those origins with the way the body later turned its work towards the aims of an independent country, which is why the celebration in 2026 marks a full hundred years. Option A, 1919, is wrong for this body even though that year is remembered for other constitutional changes of the colonial period. Option C, 1935, is wrong as well; it is a year associated with another colonial statute, not with the setting up of this Commission. Option D, 1950, is the year the Republic came into being and is a tempting but wrong choice, because the Commission already existed and was only reshaped for a free nation afterwards. The Prime Minister credited Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel with providing the steel frame of administration needed to rebuild the country.

The correct answer is i-GOT, created under Mission Karmayogi. Urging the Commission and the state selection commissions to keep building their own capacity, the Prime Minister said the digital platform already created under the national mission for civil servants could be used for the purpose. Option B, DIKSHA, is a platform for school education and teachers and is not meant for selection commissions. Option C, SWAYAM, carries online courses for higher education learners and is again a different purpose. Option D, e-Shram, is a register of unorganised sector workers and has nothing to do with training civil servants. In the same address he asked examination agencies to adopt Time Certainty, shortening examination cycles without lowering standards, and called it an equity reform because long cycles burden families with coaching fees, rent and travel costs.

The correct answer is 125 days. The Viksit Bharat guarantee for employment and livelihood in rural areas, placed before the Special Gram Sabhas by the Department of Rural Development, carries a statutory guarantee of that many days of wage employment, and it is discussed along with the Viksit Gram Panchayat Plan for locally decided works and livelihoods. Option A is wrong, and it is the strongest distractor, because a hundred days is the figure most aspirants associate with rural wage employment from earlier reading. Options C and D name larger numbers that no such guarantee provides; they are plausible only because states sometimes add extra days of work in drought-hit or scheduled areas, which is an administrative addition rather than the statutory guarantee being asked about here. For the examination, fix the statutory figure of one hundred and twenty-five days.

The correct answer is 2027-28. The campaign itself is named for the current round, but the plan a Gram Panchayat prepares in it is for the financial year that follows, which is how village planning is meant to work: the Sabha decides priorities well before the money for that year is allocated. Option B is wrong for exactly this reason and is the commonest trap, because the campaign is called the People's Plan Campaign for the current year and a hurried candidate matches the two. Option A is wrong because that year belongs to the earlier round of the campaign and is already behind. Option D is wrong because planning does not jump two years ahead in this exercise. The plan prepared is called the Gram Panchayat Development Plan, and more than two and a half lakh Panchayats upload theirs on the eGramSwaraj portal.