UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — PARLIAMENT QUESTION: ROLE OF BHARATGEN AI

Q1. BharatGen, India's sovereign multimodal LLM initiative, is operationally implemented exclusively through which of the following bodies?

  • A. TIH Foundation for IoT and IoE at IIT Bombay
  • B. Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune
  • C. IndiaAI Innovation Centre under MeitY
  • D. National Informatics Centre (NIC)

Q2. Under which national mission of the Department of Science & Technology is BharatGen supported?

  • A. National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS)
  • B. National Supercomputing Mission
  • C. National Quantum Mission
  • D. National Mission on Transformative Mobility

Q3. In the description of BharatGen as a 'multimodal' foundation model, the term 'multimodal' precisely refers to its ability to:

  • A. Process and generate across multiple data types such as text, speech and images
  • B. Operate across multiple Indian languages simultaneously
  • C. Be trained jointly by multiple partner institutions
  • D. Run on multiple compute clusters in parallel

Q4. Which institution leads the multi-institutional consortium that develops BharatGen?

  • A. IIT Bombay
  • B. IIT Madras
  • C. IIIT Hyderabad
  • D. Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru

Q5. Which of the following Indian Institutes of Management is a partner in the BharatGen consortium?

  • A. IIM Indore
  • B. IIM Ahmedabad
  • C. IIM Bangalore
  • D. IIM Calcutta

Q6. With reference to the funding of BharatGen, consider the following statements: 1. About ₹235 crore is channelled through the Technology Innovation Hub at IIT Bombay under NM-ICPS of DST. 2. Additional financial and compute support of about ₹246.72 crore has been extended under the IndiaAI Mission for developing indigenous foundational models. 3. BharatGen's entire funding is routed solely through DST, with no component under the IndiaAI Mission. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. About ₹235 crore is channelled through the Technology Innovation Hub at IIT Bombay under NM-ICPS of DST.
  2. Additional financial and compute support of about ₹246.72 crore has been extended under the IndiaAI Mission for developing indigenous foundational models.
  3. BharatGen's entire funding is routed solely through DST, with no component under the IndiaAI Mission.
  • A. 1 and 2 only
  • B. 1 and 3 only
  • C. 2 and 3 only
  • D. 1, 2 and 3

Q7. Beyond the DST/NM-ICPS support, additional funding for BharatGen's indigenous foundational models is provided under which mission?

  • A. IndiaAI Mission (MeitY)
  • B. National Supercomputing Mission
  • C. Digital India Programme
  • D. National Quantum Mission

Q8. With reference to the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS), consider the following: 1. It was approved by the Union Cabinet in 2018. 2. It is implemented by the Department of Science & Technology. 3. It has established 25 Technology Innovation Hubs across the country. 4. It was launched with a total outlay of ₹10,300 crore. Which of the above is/are NOT correct?

  1. It was approved by the Union Cabinet in 2018.
  2. It is implemented by the Department of Science & Technology.
  3. It has established 25 Technology Innovation Hubs across the country.
  4. It was launched with a total outlay of ₹10,300 crore.
  • A. 1 and 2
  • B. 3 only
  • C. 4 only
  • D. 2 and 3

Q9. As per the 2026 Parliament reply on BharatGen's language coverage, consider the following statements: 1. BharatGen models currently cover 9 Indian languages. 2. Coverage is targeted to reach 15 Indian languages by December 2025. 3. All 22 scheduled languages are already fully covered as of the reply. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. BharatGen models currently cover 9 Indian languages.
  2. Coverage is targeted to reach 15 Indian languages by December 2025.
  3. All 22 scheduled languages are already fully covered as of the reply.
  • A. 1 and 2 only
  • B. 1 and 3 only
  • C. 2 and 3 only
  • D. 1, 2 and 3

Q10. Which of the following best describes the modality stack that BharatGen operationalises for Indian-language AI?

  • A. Text (LLM), speech (TTS/ASR) and vision-language models
  • B. Text (LLM) models only
  • C. Text and speech models only, with no vision component
  • D. Speech and vision models only, with no text LLM