Which stage immediately follows the Viksit Bharat Essay Challenge in the selection pathway?

The correct answer is 1,45,26,013. The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports reported this many attempts in the Viksit Bharat Quiz, the first stage of selection for the Viksit Bharat Young Leaders Dialogue 2027. The quiz was conducted on the MY Bharat portal from 17 August to 30 September 2026, with a version also hosted on MyGov, and it carried 20 questions worth a maximum of 20 marks within a time limit of 10 minutes. Options A, C and D are near-miss figures designed to test whether a candidate has read the number carefully, and none of them matches the reported count. About 5.7 lakh of those who attempted the quiz qualified for the essay round that follows. The whole exercise is aimed at the vision of Viksit Bharat @2047, for which the dialogue gathers youth ideas from the grassroots upward.

The correct answer is 500 words. Shortlisted participants have to submit an essay of this length on the MY Bharat portal, on the theme designated for their region, and the window runs till 15 October 2026. Essays may be written in any of twenty-three languages available on the portal, which keeps the contest open to young people writing in their own language. Options A, C and D are plausible word limits for a writing contest but none of them is the limit set for this challenge, so each is wrong. Note the sequence after this stage as well: a district-level in-person presentation round, then the State or Union Territory dialogue, then the national event. Ten regional themes have been set out and the mapping of states to those themes is published on the MY Bharat portal itself.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, through MY Bharat. The dialogue is a flagship youth engagement initiative of that ministry and is carried out through Mera Yuva Bharat, whose portal hosts the quiz, the essay submissions and the mapping of states to regional themes. The aim is to give young citizens a structured and merit-based platform to offer ideas and solutions towards the goal of Viksit Bharat @2047. Options A, C and D name real ministries and platforms but none of them runs this programme, so all three are wrong. Candidates should link the programme, the ministry and the portal together, since questions often supply one and ask for another. The quiz stage of this programme alone drew well over a crore attempts, which shows the reach the portal now has among young people.

The correct answer is the Viksit Gram Panchayat Plan, approved by the Gram Sabha. Every work under the new framework is to begin from the bottom up through a decentralised planning exercise, and the plan must be cleared by the Gram Sabha before a work can start. Each work is then followed on the Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack, a digital trail meant to bring Central, State and local money onto the same work and to stop the same work being taken up twice. Options A, C and D place the power of approval at the district, block and State level respectively, which runs against the village-level, bottom-up design the Schedule sets out. The point to remember is the pair: planning at the Gram Panchayat, approval by the Gram Sabha, tracking on the national stack.

The correct answer is 2025. The Ministry of Rural Development notified the Schedule of Permissible Works under the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act of that year, and the Schedule itself was put out on 6 October 2026. Options A and B name years before the Act and are wrong. Option D is the tempting one, because the notification of the Schedule came in that year; but the question asks for the year of the Act, not the year of the notification, and the two are a year apart. Candidates should fix the sequence in mind: the Act belongs to 2025, the Schedule of 375 permissible works was notified in 2026, and the whole effort is placed within the goal of a Viksit Bharat by 2047. Mixing the three years is the commonest mistake here.