CDS (II) 2024 General Knowledge · Question 31 of 120

Correct — C, A-4 B-1 C-2 D-3. Three of the four pairings are long-settled and one is new, which is exactly why the item was set in 2024. The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration is at Mussoorie in Uttarakhand — the common training academy for the All India Services, so B-1. The National Academy of Audit and Accounts, where officers of the Indian Audit and Accounts Service are trained under the Comptroller and Auditor General, is at Shimla, so C-2. The All India Institute of Local Self Government, a non-government body founded in 1926 that trains municipal staff and councillors, has its head office in Mumbai, so D-3. That leaves Palasamudram for the National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics. NACIN was long associated with Faridabad in Haryana, but its new campus at Palasamudram in Gorantla mandal of Sri Sathya Sai district, Andhra Pradesh — a site of roughly 500 acres — was inaugurated by the Prime Minister on 16 January 2024, seven months before this paper was written. Only option (c) carries all four.

• (a)A-3 B-2 C-1 D-4 — Sends the customs academy to Mumbai and the administration academy to Shimla. Mumbai belongs to the All India Institute of Local Self Government, and Mussoorie, not Shimla, is where probationers of the All India Services train.
• (b)A-3 B-1 C-2 D-4 — Gets B and C right but still places NACIN at Mumbai and the local-self-government institute at Palasamudram. Palasamudram is a customs-and-indirect-taxes campus; the local-government body has been a Mumbai institution since 1926.
• (d)A-4 B-2 C-1 D-3 — Picks up the new Palasamudram link for NACIN but then swaps Mussoorie and Shimla — it puts the administration academy at Shimla and the audit academy at Mussoorie, which is the reverse of the real position.

India's civil services are trained in service-specific academies, and the examiner tests whether you can place them. Mussoorie is the foundation-course home for all the services and the career academy of the IAS; Shimla trains the audit and accounts service under the CAG; Hyderabad has the police academy; and the revenue services have their own academies — direct taxes at Nagpur and indirect taxes with NACIN. Alongside these government academies sits the All India Institute of Local Self Government, a Mumbai-based society that has trained municipal officers since 1926.

Three of the four rows are stable general knowledge and one is recent news, so the item rewards a candidate who reads about new government facilities rather than only the textbook list. Palasamudram is the giveaway: it is an unfamiliar place name, and an unfamiliar place name in a match-list is usually the new thing being tested. Work by elimination — LBSNAA is Mussoorie for certain, and that alone removes options (a) and (d) if you also remember Shimla for audit. The trap is the older association of NACIN with Faridabad, which would leave you looking for a Haryana entry that the list does not contain.

• The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration at Mussoorie runs the common foundation course for the All India and Central Services and the professional course for the IAS.
• The National Academy of Audit and Accounts at Shimla trains officers of the Indian Audit and Accounts Service under the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
• NACIN's new campus at Palasamudram, in Gorantla mandal of Sri Sathya Sai district, Andhra Pradesh, extends over about 500 acres and was inaugurated by the Prime Minister on 16 January 2024; the academy was earlier based at Faridabad, Haryana.
• The All India Institute of Local Self Government was founded in 1926 and works from Mumbai, training urban local body staff and elected councillors.
• NACIN trains officers of the Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Indirect Taxes) and is the capacity-building arm of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs.

• Answering from the older Faridabad association for NACIN — the academy's principal campus moved to Palasamudram in January 2024.
• Swapping Mussoorie and Shimla; administration trains at Mussoorie, audit and accounts at Shimla.
• Treating the All India Institute of Local Self Government as a government academy — it is an independent society founded in 1926.

As a match-list of institutes and towns, or as a single-line item asking where a particular service academy is located.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration is located in which one of the following states or union territories?

  • (a)Himachal Pradesh
  • (b)Uttarakhand
  • (c)Telangana
  • (d)Maharashtra

  Answer(b) Uttarakhand — the academy is at Mussoorie, and runs the common foundation course for the All India and Central Services.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Officers of which one of the following services are trained at the National Academy of Audit and Accounts, Shimla?

  • (a)Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Indirect Taxes)
  • (b)Indian Audit and Accounts Service
  • (c)Indian Forest Service
  • (d)Indian Police Service

  Answer(b) Indian Audit and Accounts Service — the academy is the training institution of the service that works under the Comptroller and Auditor General.