Which of the following pairs of initiatives of the Government of India and their objectives is/are correctly matched? 1. Global Capability Centre (GCC) : Reshaping corporate landscape 2. U-WIN Portal : Ease of doing business across states Select the answer using the code given below:

Correct — A, 1 only. The second pairing is straightforwardly wrong and is what the item turns on: U-WIN is a health platform, not an industrial or regulatory one. It digitises immunization records for pregnant women and for children up to sixteen years, giving each beneficiary a permanent electronic record and each health worker a due-list — essentially the CoWIN architecture repurposed for routine immunization under Mission Indradhanush. Ease of doing business across states is the concern of an entirely different set of instruments, such as the Business Reform Action Plan rankings and the National Single Window System. The first pairing does hold. Global Capability Centres are the offshore units multinationals run in India for engineering, research, analytics and shared services, and they have grown from cost-arbitrage back offices into centres that hold global mandates; the Union Budget 2025-26 announced a national framework to guide states in attracting them to tier-2 cities. Calling that a reshaping of the corporate landscape is broad, but it is a fair description of what GCCs have done to the structure of corporate employment in India. With one pair right and one wrong, the answer is (a).

• (b)2 only — Inverts the item, accepting the health platform as an ease-of-doing-business measure and rejecting the GCC pairing.
• (c)Both 1 and 2 — The tempting option if U-WIN is unfamiliar, because 'WIN' can read like a business or investment portal. It is a Health Ministry immunization platform.
• (d)Neither 1 nor 2 — Rejects the GCC pairing, presumably as too vague. Vagueness is not falsity — the objective described is a reasonable account of what the GCC framework is aimed at.

Match-the-objective items test whether a candidate can attach an initiative to the right ministry and problem. The reliable method is to identify the sector each name belongs to before judging the objective, because a wrong pairing is usually wrong by sector, not by nuance.

U-WIN was built on the CoWIN platform developed for COVID-19 vaccination and extended nationally through 2024 to cover the Universal Immunization Programme. It gives every pregnant woman and child a digital immunization record portable across states, which matters for migrant families whose paper cards are lost when they move — the same portability logic that underlies one-nation-one-ration-card. Global Capability Centres are a different story of the same decade: India hosts well over a thousand, employing well over a million people, and the policy interest is in dispersing them beyond Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and the NCR. Note for anyone writing about this paper: Q80 asks which platform digitises vaccination records for pregnant women and children up to sixteen years, and the answer there is U-WIN. The two cards must agree.

• U-WIN digitises immunization records for pregnant women and children up to sixteen years, under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
• It is built on the CoWIN architecture developed for COVID-19 vaccination and supports the Universal Immunization Programme.
• Global Capability Centres are offshore units of multinationals in India doing engineering, R&D, analytics and shared services.
• The Union Budget 2025-26 announced a national framework to guide states in promoting GCCs in tier-2 cities.
• Ease of doing business is pursued through instruments such as the Business Reform Action Plan and the National Single Window System, not U-WIN.

• Guessing an initiative's sector from its acronym. 'WIN' suggests business; U-WIN is immunization.
• Rejecting a pairing because the stated objective is broad. Broad is not wrong.
• Confusing U-WIN with the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission's health ID. Related, but different systems.

As a two-pair matching item where one pair is wrong by sector. The same platform may also appear as a direct single-answer recall question, as it does at Q80 of this paper.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The U-WIN portal is associated with which ministry?

  • (a)Ministry of Commerce and Industry
  • (b)Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
  • (c)Ministry of Labour and Employment
  • (d)Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

  Answer(b) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare — it digitises immunization records.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Global Capability Centres in India are best described as:

  • (a)Special economic zones for exports
  • (b)Offshore units of multinationals doing engineering, R&D and analytics
  • (c)Public sector research laboratories
  • (d)Skill development centres run by states

  Answer(b) Offshore units of multinationals doing engineering, R&D and analytics.