Which two shipyards are building the Indian Navy's Next Generation Offshore Patrol Vessels?

The correct answer is Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Kolkata, where Shreyas, carrying the yard number 3040, was launched. Option A, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders in Mumbai, builds destroyers and submarines for the Navy but had no part in this launch. Option C, Cochin Shipyard in Kochi, is the yard associated with the indigenous aircraft carrier, not with this class of patrol vessels. Option D, Hindustan Shipyard in Visakhapatnam, is another defence yard that is not involved in this programme. The point to remember is that the Next Generation Offshore Patrol Vessels are being built at two yards at the same time, Goa Shipyard Limited in Goa and GRSE in Kolkata, and this particular hull came from the Kolkata yard.

The correct answer is 'best' or 'most excellent', which is what Shreyas means in Sanskrit. Ships of this class are named from India's rich heritage, and this vessel's name was chosen in that spirit. Option A is wrong because courage and valour are the sense of other Sanskrit warship names, not of Shreyas. Option C is wrong because no such meaning was given for this name, although guarding the seas does describe the vessel's duties of maritime surveillance and protection of offshore assets. Option D is wrong for the same reason; invincibility is a common theme in naval naming but is not the meaning here. Candidates should remember both the name and its meaning, since questions often pair a warship with the sense of its name.

The correct answer is Lance Naik Albert Ekka. While recalling his tenure as Governor of Jharkhand and speaking of the State's proud tradition of military service and sacrifice, the Vice-President paid tribute to this Param Vir Chakra awardee, and in the same breath recalled the tribal freedom fighters of the region, among them Bhagwan Birsa Munda, Tilka Manjhi, Sidhu and Kanhu, and Nilambar and Pitambar. He said the spirit of patriotism and national service continues to inspire the people of Jharkhand. Options B, C and D name other recipients of the Param Vir Chakra, all of them well known, but none of them was the awardee honoured in this address. The connection to hold on to is Jharkhand with Albert Ekka, which is a frequent pairing in examination questions on gallantry awards.

The correct answer is the Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme, known by its short form ECHS. Its services were set up at the mela along with displays of weapons and military equipment, disaster relief facilities, medical screening and blood donation camps, women's health awareness work, NCC activities and pension-related counters. The Vice-President praised this single-window arrangement, under which pension assistance, medical facilities, documentation and grievance redressal came together on one platform, and he described it as a meaningful example of last-mile delivery. Option A is a digital health records mission and not a veterans' scheme. Option B serves central government employees and pensioners, not ex-servicemen specifically. Option D covers organised sector workers through insurance contributions. Only ECHS is the health scheme meant for ex-servicemen and their dependents.

The correct answer is Always with You; for ex-servicemen, Veer Naris and their dependents. Sadaiv Aapke Saath translates as Always with You, and the Vice-President asked that it become a continuing national commitment rather than the slogan of one event. The mela itself was arranged to deliver welfare services and grievance redressal to ex-servicemen, to Veer Naris and to their dependents in the Santhal Pargana region. Option B gives a different motto and limits the beneficiaries to serving soldiers, which is not the case here. Option C misreads the theme and narrows it to NCC cadets, although NCC activities were only one of the stalls at the venue. Option D again gives a wrong meaning and wrongly restricts the event to families of serving officers.