Which of the four newly approved MEMU legs has the shortest journey time?

The correct answer is Meerut City. The two newly sanctioned MEMU services both begin or end at Meerut City: one pair links it with Khurja and runs as Train No. 64573/64574, and the other links it with Saharanpur and runs as Train No. 64580/64579. Both trains will have commercial stoppages at every station on their route, so the benefit is spread across the whole section rather than the end points alone. Ghaziabad is wrong because no new service in this approval starts or terminates there, even though it lies in the same region of western Uttar Pradesh. Moradabad is wrong for the same reason: it is not one of the three stations named in the approval. Bareilly is wrong as well, since neither of the two pairs touches it; the stations named are Meerut City, Khurja and Saharanpur only.

The correct answer is 64573. In the pair sanctioned for the Khurja section, Train No. 64573 runs from Khurja to Meerut City, leaving Khurja at 13:15 hrs and arriving at Meerut City at 17:20 hrs, a journey of 4 hours 5 minutes. Option A is wrong because 64579 is the Meerut City to Saharanpur service, which leaves Meerut City at 17:45 hrs and reaches Saharanpur at 20:40 hrs. Option B is wrong because 64580 is the Saharanpur to Meerut City service in the morning, leaving at 05:50 hrs and arriving at 08:10 hrs. Option D is wrong because no such number appears in the approval; the four numbers announced are 64573, 64574, 64580 and 64579. Note also that the return leg of the Khurja service is 64574, which leaves Meerut City at 11:25 hrs and reaches Khurja at 16:00 hrs.

The correct answer is the Modi Mill-Savitri Cinema Flyover and the Loni Underpass. Along with dedicating the completed elevated road, the Union Home Minister laid the foundation stones of these two works, which together with the road make up the package of projects worth more than Rs 1,941 crore. A flyover lifts traffic over a junction and an underpass takes it beneath, and both are built to remove traffic signals at busy crossings. Option A names a metro corridor and a ring road, which are different categories of project and were not part of this announcement. Options C and D, pedestrian skywalks and a bus rapid transit corridor, are also urban transport works but neither was named. Hence option B is correct.

The correct answer is East Delhi and South Delhi. The Home Minister stated that the newly dedicated phase of the Barapullah corridor would give signal-free connectivity between the eastern and the southern parts of the capital, so that commuting becomes smoother, motorists get relief from traffic jams and travel time is saved. A signal-free corridor achieves this by carrying traffic over intersections on an elevated deck instead of stopping it at traffic lights. Options A, C and D pair other parts of the city; while Delhi has several corridors linking those areas, none of them is the connection described for this phase. The point to note for examinations is the specific pair of directions named, since a question may change just one of the two.

The correct answer is Rs 1,635 crore. The Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation dedicated the Barapullah Elevated Road Phase-3, built at that cost, to the people of Delhi. Option C is the most attractive distractor because it is the value of the whole package of projects inaugurated and begun on the occasion, which stands at more than that amount and includes the elevated road as well as the two works whose foundation stones were laid. Candidates must therefore separate the single project cost from the total package. Options A and D name figures that were not mentioned in connection with either the road or the package. A safe way to remember the pair is that the elevated road accounts for the larger part of the total, with the remainder going to the flyover and the underpass.