UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — PRAGATI @ 50: Institutionalizing Proactive and Tech-Enabled Governance

Q1. Under the PRAGATI framework, which single body is designated as the nodal agency responsible exclusively for monitoring the infrastructure projects taken up for review?

  • A. Cabinet Secretariat
  • B. NITI Aayog
  • C. Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
  • D. Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances

Q2. PRAGATI review meetings are chaired by which of the following authorities?

  • A. Prime Minister of India
  • B. Cabinet Secretary
  • C. Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister
  • D. Union Minister of Home Affairs

Q3. Following its launch on 25 March 2015, how many PRAGATI meetings are ordinarily scheduled in a calendar year?

  • A. 4
  • B. 6
  • C. 12
  • D. 24

Q4. The dynamic GIS platform integrating over 200 data layers for PRAGATI's real-time geospatial project mapping was developed by which single organisation?

  • A. Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics (BISAG-N)
  • B. National Remote Sensing Centre, ISRO
  • C. Survey of India
  • D. National Informatics Centre

Q5. The PRAGATI ICT platform was conceptualised and designed in-house by the technical team of which office?

  • A. Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
  • B. NITI Aayog
  • C. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
  • D. Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances

Q6. Under PRAGATI's institutionalised follow-up architecture reaffirmed at the 50th milestone, schemes and public grievances are reviewed at the Ministry level under the continuous oversight of which body?

  • A. Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
  • B. Cabinet Secretariat
  • C. NITI Aayog
  • D. Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances

Q7. With reference to the 50th PRAGATI meeting and its Project & Issue Escalation Mechanism, which one of the following statements is NOT correct?

  1. The meeting was chaired by the Prime Minister.
  2. Routine issues are resolved at the Ministry level while complex and critical issues are escalated up to PRAGATI.
  3. The meeting reviewed five projects spanning five States.
  4. The escalation mechanism transfers final project-monitoring authority to NITI Aayog.
  • A. 4 only
  • B. 1 and 3
  • C. 2 only
  • D. 3 and 4

Q8. The five infrastructure projects reviewed at the 50th PRAGATI meeting belonged to which of the following sectors? Which of the above is/are correctly identified?

  1. Road
  2. Railways
  3. Civil Aviation
  4. Coal
  • A. 1 and 2
  • B. 1, 2 and 4
  • C. 2, 3 and 4
  • D. 1 and 3

Q9. With reference to the projects reviewed at the 50th PRAGATI meeting, which one of the following statements is NOT correct?

  1. Five projects were reviewed.
  2. The projects spanned five States.
  3. The projects together had a cumulative cost of more than ₹40,000 crore.
  4. All five projects belonged to the Railways sector.
  • A. 4 only
  • B. 1 and 2
  • C. 3 only
  • D. 2 and 4

Q10. The public grievances taken up for time-bound resolution and cumulative tracking under PRAGATI are drawn primarily from the database of which system?

  • A. Centralized Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS)
  • B. e-Samadhaan
  • C. National Government Services Portal
  • D. JAM Trinity

Q11. In the context of PRAGATI, the platform's embodiment of 'cooperative federalism' is best described as which of the following?

  • A. Real-time joint participation of Union Secretaries and State Chief Secretaries enabling coordinated Centre-State resolution of implementation bottlenecks
  • B. Constitutional devolution of tax revenues to States on the recommendation of the Finance Commission
  • C. Competitive ranking of States on ease-of-living and reform indicators
  • D. Transfer of subjects from the Union List to the State List