UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Bharat GenAI Large Language Model to complete text models in all 22 scheduled languages this month: Dr. Jitendra Singh tells Rajya Sabha

Q1. On how many distinct pillars is the IndiaAI Mission, approved by the Union Cabinet, structured?

  • A. Five
  • B. Six
  • C. Seven
  • D. Nine

Q2. Under the IndiaAI Mission, the development and deployment of indigenous Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) and domain-specific foundational models is the primary mandate of which one of the following pillars?

  • A. IndiaAI Compute Capacity
  • B. IndiaAI Innovation Centre
  • C. IndiaAI Datasets Platform
  • D. IndiaAI Application Development Initiative

Q3. BharatGen is implemented by the Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) Foundation for IoT & IoE, which is hosted at which one of the following lead institutions?

  • A. IIT Madras
  • B. IIIT Hyderabad
  • C. IIT Bombay
  • D. IIT Kanpur

Q4. With reference to the academic consortium implementing BharatGen, consider the following institutions: 1. IIT Bombay 2. IIT Delhi 3. IIM Indore 4. IIT Madras Which of the above are correctly identified as members of the BharatGen consortium?

  1. IIT Bombay
  2. IIT Delhi
  3. IIM Indore
  4. IIT Madras
  • A. 1, 3 and 4
  • B. 1, 2 and 4
  • C. 2 and 3 only
  • D. 1 and 4 only

Q5. Which one of the following was the single language added to the Eighth Schedule by the 21st Constitutional Amendment, being the first addition to the original set of fourteen languages?

  • A. Konkani
  • B. Nepali
  • C. Sindhi
  • D. Maithili

Q6. As per Dr. Jitendra Singh's February 2026 statement in the Rajya Sabha on Bharat GenAI, speech and vision capabilities had by then been built for how many Indian languages?

  • A. 8
  • B. 15
  • C. 18
  • D. 22

Q7. In describing Bharat GenAI as India's first 'sovereign' Large Language Model, the term 'sovereign' in this context most precisely refers to a model that is:

  • A. government-funded and indigenously developed, reducing dependence on foreign foundation models
  • B. granted legal immunity from data-protection regulation as a State instrumentality
  • C. restricted to processing only classified governmental and defence data
  • D. owned jointly by the Union and State governments under a cooperative-federal arrangement

Q8. The National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS), the parent programme of BharatGen, is operationalised by which one of the following?

  • A. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
  • B. Department of Science & Technology
  • C. Department of Biotechnology
  • D. Ministry of Education

Q9. Under NM-ICPS, a 'Technology Innovation Hub' (TIH) is most accurately described as:

  • A. an institutional centre of excellence set up in a reputed academic institute to conduct translational CPS research and facilitate technology transfer to industry
  • B. a shared national GPU cluster procured for training large AI models
  • C. a statutory regulatory body that certifies cyber-physical products for market release
  • D. a venture-capital fund that directly disburses equity to deep-tech startups

Q10. With reference to the phased, modality-wise rollout of BharatGen, consider the following statements: 1. The text modality has achieved full 22-language coverage ahead of the speech and vision modalities. 2. As of the February 2026 statement, the speech and vision capabilities had been built for 15 languages. 3. Unlike the text and speech components, the vision component lies outside BharatGen's multimodal scope. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. The text modality has achieved full 22-language coverage ahead of the speech and vision modalities.
  2. As of the February 2026 statement, the speech and vision capabilities had been built for 15 languages.
  3. Unlike the text and speech components, the vision component lies outside BharatGen's multimodal scope.
  • A. 1 and 2 only
  • B. 2 and 3 only
  • C. 1 and 3 only
  • D. 1, 2 and 3

Q11. Distinct from BharatGen, the Bhashini platform (National Language Translation Mission) for Indian-language speech, text and vision technology has been set up under the aegis of which one of the following?

  • A. Department of Science & Technology
  • B. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
  • C. Ministry of Culture
  • D. Ministry of Education