RAS question
How many Vande Bharat Express trains serve Rajasthan?
Correct answer: (D) 4.
Rajasthan is served by four Vande Bharat Express trains: Ajmer-Chandigarh, Jodhpur-Sabarmati, Udaipur City-Jaipur and Udaipur City-Agra Cantt.
Explanation
Rajasthan’s Economic Review 2025-26 gives the count directly: the state hosts four Vande Bharat Express trains. It also names the services, which is why the answer is not just a rounded figure but a verifiable route count: Ajmer-Chandigarh, Jodhpur-Sabarmati, Udaipur City-Jaipur and Udaipur City-Agra Cantt. For a Rajasthan Economy MCQ, the trap is usually to treat Vande Bharat as a national railway topic and guess from memory. Here, the state economic document itself fixes the Rajasthan-specific number, and the four named services together establish option D.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Two is too low because the Economic Review lists four named Vande Bharat Express services connected with Rajasthan.
- (B) Six overstates the count; the cited Rajasthan Economic Review records only four Vande Bharat Express trains for the state.
- (C) Three misses one of the four services named in the source: Ajmer-Chandigarh, Jodhpur-Sabarmati, Udaipur City-Jaipur and Udaipur City-Agra Cantt.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan infrastructure under the state economy syllabus, especially transport connectivity and current development indicators. It recurs in RAS because railway upgrades and named services are easy to ask as factual, source-backed state-economy items.