Who chairs the Defence Acquisition Council?

The correct answer is Rs 1,10,000 crore. The Defence Acquisition Council, meeting under the chairmanship of the Raksha Mantri, gave Acceptance of Necessity to acquisition proposals of the three Services at an estimated cost of about that amount. Acceptance of Necessity is only the in-principle administrative approval; the contract and the payment come much later, so a question that asks what the council did should be answered with the word approval and not with the word purchase. The other three options carry figures that the release does not mention at all, and a paper setter uses such near-round numbers because a candidate who has read the headline quickly will confuse one large figure with another. The safest way to remember it is as one and a tenth lakh crore rupees, cleared in a single sitting for the Army, the Navy and the Air Force together, with about 98 per cent of that value to be sourced from Indian industry.

The correct answer is the Indian Navy, to replace Air Route Surveillance Radars at naval air stations. The release puts the Arudhra Radar in the Navy's list, together with the design, development and later purchase of Marine Gas Turbines, and says plainly that the radar will take the place of the existing Air Route Surveillance Radars. Option A sends the radar to the Army for artillery fire control, a task done by weapon locating and fire control radars that this release never names. Option C moves it to the Air Force, whose clearances in this meeting covered fighter, transport and helicopter capability along with the Ground-Based Multi-Purpose Jammer and the DEFSAC card system, not this radar. Option D brings in the Coast Guard, which the release does not mention. Pair the two Navy items in memory, Arudhra for surveillance and Marine Gas Turbine for propulsion.

The correct answer is paper-based identity cards, passes and permits. DEFSAC stands for the Defence Forces Secure Access Card, and the release says it will replace the paper system now in use with interoperable smart cards that work on radio frequency identification. The word interoperable matters, because one card is then read at installations of all three Services rather than at one base alone. Option B names field radio sets, which belong to the communication programmes and not to this clearance. Option C names ration and canteen registers, a welfare and supply function that the release does not touch. Option D names night vision devices, which are surveillance equipment of a different kind. The item cleared alongside DEFSAC for the Air Force was the Ground-Based Multi-Purpose Jammer, meant to jam the radars of an adversary, and the two are often asked together.

The correct answer is 2027. Both sides noted at the meeting that bilateral cooperation between India and Morocco is moving towards its seventieth anniversary in that year, and they agreed to expand defence ties ahead of the milestone. Option A is the year of the meeting itself, held on 8 September 2026, so an aspirant who reads the question in haste may pick it; the meeting year and the anniversary year are different facts. Option C and option D are years that simply do not appear in the announcement of the meeting, and neither matches the anniversary named there. The safe way to revise this story is to keep three years apart in the memory: the defence memorandum was signed during the Defence Minister's visit to Morocco in September 2025, the first Joint Defence Committee meeting fell in 2026, and the seventieth anniversary of cooperation arrives in 2027.

The correct answer is the Raksha Mantri. A Memorandum of Understanding on defence cooperation was signed when Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh visited Morocco in September 2025, and the Joint Defence Committee is the institutional mechanism established through that MoU. Option A, the Prime Minister, is wrong because the release ties the agreement to the Defence Minister's visit, not to a prime ministerial one. Option C, the External Affairs Minister, is a plausible distractor because the Ministry of External Affairs was represented in the Indian delegation at the meeting, yet representation at a meeting is not the same as signing the parent agreement. Option D, the Chief of Defence Staff, is wrong since such memoranda are signed at the political level rather than by a Service or tri-Service chief. The chain to remember is simple: the 2025 visit produced the MoU, and the MoU produced this committee.