RAS question
What is ICAR, which is integrated with Bharat-VISTAAR?
Correct answer: (C) Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
ICAR, as integrated with Bharat-VISTAAR, is the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
Explanation
ICAR expands to Indian Council of Agricultural Research. The official ICAR About Us page itself identifies the organisation by that name and uses ICAR as the short title, so the acronym in the question points to a specific Indian agricultural research institution. The question is testing recognition of the institutional abbreviation, not the policy details of Bharat-VISTAAR. Option C is therefore the only expansion that matches both the letters in ICAR and the official source. The other options either change the institutional form, make it an international body, or introduce unrelated terms such as agriculture and revenue.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Indian Centre for Agricultural Reform changes both the institutional name and the expansion of ICAR; the official source identifies ICAR as a council, not a centre for reform.
- (B) International Council for Agricultural Research is wrong because the official expansion begins with Indian, not International.
- (D) Indian Commission for Agriculture and Revenue is wrong because the official name is a council for agricultural research, not a commission dealing with agriculture and revenue.
Concept
This tests current-affairs awareness of government and institutional acronyms. RAS repeatedly asks such abbreviations because schemes and digital platforms are often linked to specific official bodies.