Government S&T Programs & Policies MCQ — 173 Practice Questions with Answers

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Statements 1 and 2 are true: ISA was jointly launched by India and France at COP21 in Paris. Statement 3 is false because the corpus places ISA headquarters at the NISE campus in Gurugram, not Jaipur.

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In April 2026, MeitY constituted the AI Governance and Economic Group (AIGEG) as India's central institutional mechanism for AI governance policy development and coordination. Per PIB, it is chaired by Union Minister for Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw; the Principal Scientific Adviser is a member.

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Statements 1 and 2 are true because PIB gives the initial outlay as Rs.19,744 crore and SIGHT as Rs.17,490 crore. Statement 3 is true: the 2030 outcome is at least 5 MMT per annum. Statement 4 is false because the associated renewable energy capacity addition is about 125 GW, not 25 GW.

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The International Solar Alliance was jointly launched by Indian PM Modi and French President Hollande in November 2015 at COP21 in Paris to promote solar energy in sunshine-rich countries.

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Statements 1 and 2 are correct. Statement 3 is incorrect: the source describes the Technical Advisory Group as reviewing scientific progress, while the inter-ministerial Steering Committee is chaired by Secretary-DBT; it does not say TAG is chaired by the Foreign Secretary.