RAS question
The Mahajan Field Firing Range, used for Exercise Harimau Shakti 2025, is located in which district of Rajasthan?
Correct answer: (C) Bikaner.
Mahajan Field Firing Range, used for Exercise Harimau Shakti 2025, is located in Bikaner district of Rajasthan.
Explanation
Mahajan Field Firing Range is in Bikaner district, so option C is the precise district answer. The Rajasthan Forest Department's CAMPA evaluation report explicitly places the range in Bikaner district while discussing afforestation needs in the hot, arid and sandy landscape of the Thar Desert. That matters because the question is not asking which desert or army training zone is generally associated with western Rajasthan; it asks for the district location of one named firing range. Mahajan is a major military training ground regularly used for Indian Army exercises and multinational joint drills, which fits its use for Exercise Harimau Shakti 2025.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Jaisalmer is a western Rajasthan district, but the Rajasthan Forest Department report locates Mahajan Field Firing Range in Bikaner district, not Jaisalmer.
- (B) Barmer is not the district named for Mahajan Field Firing Range; the official report identifies the range with Bikaner district.
- (D) Jodhpur is another major Rajasthan district, but Mahajan Field Firing Range is placed in Bikaner district, not Jodhpur.
Concept
This tests map-based Rajasthan geography through the location of a defence training site. Such questions recur in RAS because current-affairs exercises often become static-location questions about Rajasthan's districts.