UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — PM to visit Gujarat on 31 March

Q1. The India Semiconductor Mission (ISM), launched to build a domestic chip ecosystem, has been institutionally set up as which one of the following?

  • A. An independent business division within the Digital India Corporation
  • B. A statutory body constituted under a dedicated Act of Parliament
  • C. An attached office of NITI Aayog
  • D. A public sector undertaking jointly owned by the Centre and the states

Q2. Which Union Ministry is the nodal ministry that administers the India Semiconductor Mission and the Semicon India Programme?

  • A. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
  • B. Ministry of Heavy Industries
  • C. Ministry of Science and Technology
  • D. Ministry of Commerce and Industry

Q3. The Kaynes Semicon plant at Sanand, built for wire-bond interconnect and substrate-based packages, is best classified as which type of semiconductor facility?

  • A. An OSAT (Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test) facility
  • B. A silicon wafer fabrication (fab) unit
  • C. A display fabrication unit
  • D. A compound semiconductor (silicon photonics) fab

Q4. The approval and fiscal incentives for the Kaynes Semicon Sanand unit are operationalised through which implementing agency?

  • A. The India Semiconductor Mission, a division of the Digital India Corporation
  • B. Software Technology Parks of India (STPI)
  • C. Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
  • D. Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL), Mohali

Q5. Samrat Samprati, after whom the newly inaugurated Jain heritage museum at Koba is named, is revered in tradition as the grandson of which Mauryan emperor?

  • A. Ashoka
  • B. Chandragupta Maurya
  • C. Bindusara
  • D. Dasaratha Maurya

Q6. In Jain tradition, Samrat Samprati is principally venerated for his role in the propagation of which religion?

  • A. Jainism
  • B. Buddhism
  • C. Ajivika doctrine
  • D. Vaishnavism

Q7. Mahavira, whose birth Mahavir Jayanti commemorates, belongs to a traditional succession of how many Tirthankaras in Jainism?

  • A. 24
  • B. 23
  • C. 22
  • D. 63

Q8. Within the line of 24 Tirthankaras, which position does Mahavira occupy?

  • A. The 24th and last Tirthankara
  • B. The first Tirthankara
  • C. The 23rd Tirthankara
  • D. The 22nd Tirthankara

Q9. Under the Semicon India Programme, OSAT/ATMP packaging units are eligible for fiscal support of up to what share of project cost?

  • A. Up to 50 per cent
  • B. Up to 25 per cent
  • C. Up to 30 per cent
  • D. Up to 70 per cent

Q10. Within the over-₹20,000-crore North Gujarat package launched at Vav-Tharad, the single largest identified component (about ₹8,000 crore) was directed at which sector?

  • A. Water and irrigation projects
  • B. Railways
  • C. Housing
  • D. Power

Q11. Which semiconductor facility was the first in India to commence commercial production, with the Kaynes Sanand plant becoming the second?

  • A. Micron's ATMP facility at Sanand
  • B. Tata Electronics–PSMC fab at Dholera
  • C. CG Power–Renesas unit at Sanand
  • D. Tata Semiconductor Assembly and Test unit at Jagiroad, Assam

Q12. The Samrat Samprati Sangrahalay inaugurated at Koba, Gandhinagar, is best described as which one of the following?

  • A. A Jain heritage museum laid out in seven galleries
  • B. A working Jain temple (derasar) consecrated for daily worship
  • C. A Buddhist archaeological excavation site
  • D. A Mauryan-coinage research archive