Which office released the draft guideline for expenditure-side GSDP estimates?

The correct answer is 2022-23. The National Statistics Office has prepared the draft guideline for compiling Gross State Domestic Product estimates from the expenditure side with 2022-23 as the base year, and the whole framework is described as working under the revised base year arrangement. Options A, B and D are wrong because the release names only one base year for this exercise and it is not any of these; they are offered as plausible distractors drawn from the way base years are usually revised. For the examination, hold three things together: the body that issued the document (the National Statistics Office), the ministry it belongs to (Statistics and Programme Implementation) and the base year 2022-23. Also note that comments from stakeholders were invited until 28 October 2026 through the ministry website.

The correct answer is Private Final Consumption Expenditure, usually shortened to PFCE. The release states plainly that while some States and Union Territories do put together estimates of Gross Fixed Capital Formation and Government Final Consumption Expenditure, no State or Union Territory is compiling PFCE at present. That is why options A and B are wrong. Option D is wrong because net exports is listed as one of the components the framework covers, not as the component singled out as missing everywhere. The draft guideline therefore supplies the concepts, coverage, data sources and estimation methods needed to build these components at the State level, and recommends allocation methods and indicators wherever direct State-level data are not available. Remember also that the draft guideline works with 2022-23 as the base year and that stakeholders were asked to send their comments by 28 October 2026 through the official website of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, while the compilation itself will rest with the State Directorates of Economics and Statistics.

The correct answer is 19 November 2026. Registration, the technical bid and the earnest money or bank guarantee have all to reach the corporation by that date, after which the technical bids are opened on 20 November 2026. Option A, 29 October 2026, is the last date for sending queries about the auction, not for the bid itself. Option B, 3 November 2026, is the day fixed for the pre-bid meeting in New Delhi, where prospective bidders can have the process explained to them. Option D, 23 November 2026, is the date of the mock auction, a trial run held before the real bidding; the e-auction date is to be announced only after the technical bids have been opened. Keeping this calendar in order is the point of the question, since all four dates belong to the same auction and are easily confused with one another.

The correct answer is 5.119 acres, which works out to about 20,722.93 square metres. The parcel carries an industrial land use and is being offered for outright sale through an e-tender followed by an e-auction. The release makes clear that the area is provisional and indicative, and that the exact extent will be fixed through a joint survey conducted with the successful bidder, so the figure should be remembered along with that qualification. Option A, option C and option D are built by changing one digit or shifting the decimal point, which is exactly how such distractors are framed in objective papers. Candidates should therefore link the plot with its two paired measures, the acreage and the figure in square metres, and keep in mind that the sale is on an as-is-where-is basis with no recourse to the seller.

The correct answer is the Department of Public Enterprises in the Ministry of Finance. NLMC was set up to help central public sector enterprises and other government entities monetise surplus land and non-core assets, and it sits in that department. In the present case it is facilitating the sale on behalf of HIL (India) Limited, which owns the plot. Option B names the Department of Land Resources, which works on land records and watershed programmes under the Ministry of Rural Development and has no role in monetising enterprise assets. Option C, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, deals with industrial policy and foreign direct investment questions. Option D pairs the Department of Expenditure with the wrong ministry altogether, since that department belongs to the Ministry of Finance and not to Home Affairs. Candidates should remember the chain: NLMC, Department of Public Enterprises, Ministry of Finance.