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UPSC CSE Prelims 2023 · GS Paper I · Question 10 · Population, settlement & transport

भारत की कनेक्टिविटी परियोजनाओं के संदर्भ में, निम्नलिखित कथनों पर विचार कीजिए :

UPSC Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination 2023, General Studies Paper I, Question 10 — Population, settlement & transport.

Prelims 2023 · Q10

Population, settlement & transport Medium

भारत की कनेक्टिविटी परियोजनाओं के संदर्भ में, निम्नलिखित कथनों पर विचार कीजिए :

  1. 1.स्वर्णिम चतुर्भुज परियोजना के अधीन पूर्व-पश्चिम गलियारा (कॉरिडोर), डिब्रूगढ़ और सूरत को जोड़ता है।
  2. 2.त्रिपक्षीय राजमार्ग मणिपुर में मोरेह को, म्यांमार से होते हुए, थाईलैंड में चियांग माई से जोड़ता है।
  3. 3.बांग्लादेश-चीन-भारत-म्यांमार आर्थिक गलियारा (कॉरिडोर) उत्तर प्रदेश में वाराणसी को चीन में कुनमिंग से जोड़ता है।

उपर्युक्त में से कितने कथन सही हैं?

Read this question in English

With reference to India's projects on connectivity, consider the following statements:

1. East-West Corridor under Golden Quadrilateral Project connects Dibrugarh and Surat.

2. Trilateral Highway connects Moreh in Manipur and Chiang Mai in Thailand via Myanmar.

3. Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor connects Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh with Kunming in China.

How many of the above statements are correct?

(a) Only one · (b) Only two · (c) All three · (d) None

उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English

Answer: (d) कोई भी नहीं

Every statement has a wrong end-point or a wrong project name. The East-West Corridor runs from Silchar to Porbandar and is separate from the Golden Quadrilateral, the Trilateral Highway runs from Moreh to Mae Sot in Thailand, and the BCIM corridor was planned from Kolkata to Kunming.

  • ✗ 1. The East-West Corridor links Silchar in Assam with Porbandar in Gujarat (about 3,640 km). It belongs to the North-South and East-West corridor programme, not to the Golden Quadrilateral, which joins Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata.
  • ✗ 2. PIB states that the India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway aims to connect Moreh in Manipur to Mae Sot in Thailand via Myanmar, not Chiang Mai.
  • ✗ 3. The Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) Economic Corridor was conceived to link Kolkata with Kunming in Yunnan through Bangladesh and Myanmar; Varanasi is not on it.

Remember · East-West Corridor: Silchar–Porbandar; North-South: Srinagar–Kanniyakumari. Trilateral Highway: Moreh–Mae Sot. BCIM: Kolkata–Kunming.

📘 Read it in NCERT: Class 12 India: People and Economy, Ch 7 (practise this chapter)

Sources

Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper I (2023, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 1 Oct 2026 (how we verify). ·

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