Which two institutions jointly pursued the record road and signed a Technology Transfer Agreement at the event?
- A.CSIR-CRRI and Jindal Steel Limited
- B.IIT Roorkee and Steel Authority of India Limited
- C.CSIR-NML and Tata Steel
- D.NHAI and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited
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Explanation
The correct answer is CSIR-CRRI and Jindal Steel Limited. The CSIR-Central Road Research Institute in New Delhi supplied the scientific guidelines, processing protocols and quality-control framework, while the steel company supplied the processed slag and the site. At the same programme the road was inaugurated virtually, a scientific documentary was released, the Steel Grit brand was launched and the Technology Transfer Agreement between the two was signed. Dr N. Kalaiselvi, Secretary of DSIR and Director General of CSIR, said the achievement comes as the organisation enters its eighty-fifth year, and announced the work order for a 40-km road in Odisha from the company's Angul plant. Options B, C and D pair real research bodies and steel producers that were not the partners in this record, and are included precisely because each combination sounds plausible to a candidate who recalls only that a laboratory and a steel firm were involved.
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Practice Questions
The Guinness World Record for the world's longest road built with processed steel slag aggregates was set at which place?
- A.Angul, Odisha
- B.Raigarh, Chhattisgarh
- C.Hazira, Gujarat
- D.Bhilai, Chhattisgarh
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The record road runs 1.85 km and was pursued jointly by the CSIR-Central Road Research Institute of New Delhi and Jindal Steel Limited, with the record conferred at an event addressed by Dr Jitendra Singh.
Read the full explanation →According to Dr Jitendra Singh, steel slag road technology can reduce road construction cost by roughly how much?
- A.10 per cent
- B.25 per cent
- C.40 per cent
- D.60 per cent
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The Minister said the technology can cut construction cost by around this share while delivering four times the strength of a conventional road, and can stretch the maintenance cycle so that major maintenance is needed only after about fifteen years in suitable applications.
Read the full explanation →As of 6 November 2026, how many equipment items were listed on the I-STEM portal?
- A.4,044
- B.18,250
- C.31,540
- D.45,000
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As of 6 November 2026, the day its API integration with the Startup India Portal was launched, I-STEM listed 31,540 equipment items across 4,044 registered institutions, giving researchers and innovators a large national pool of scientific resources.
Read the full explanation →Who chaired the launch of the API integration between the Startup India and I-STEM portals on 6 November 2026?
- A.Dr. Parvinder Maini
- B.Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood
- C.Ateesh Kumar Singh
- D.Dr. Vishal Choudhary
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He described the integration as an institutional convergence that can lower R&D costs, avoid duplication of capital-intensive facilities and raise the use of publicly funded infrastructure.
Read the full explanation →What does the acronym I-STEM, whose portal was integrated with the Startup India Portal in November 2026, stand for?
- A.Indian Scheme for Technology and Engineering Mentorship
- B.Indian Science, Technology and Engineering Facilities Map
- C.Integrated Startup Technology Enablement Mission
- D.Indian Society for Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
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I-STEM is the portal that maps scientific equipment and research facilities across academic and research institutions so that they can be shared.
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