Which of the following pairs is incorrect?
- (a)Saket Ramayan Kala Sangrahalaya – Orchha
- (b)Premchand Srijan Peeth – Ujjain
- (c)Muktibodh Srijan Peeth – Sagar
- (d)Tulsi Shodh Sansthan – Bhopal
Correct — D, 'Tulsi Shodh Sansthan – Bhopal' is the INCORRECT pair. Tulsi Shodh Sansthan, the state's research institute on Tulsidas, is actually located at Chitrakoot (the Tulsidas-linked pilgrim town on the Madhya Pradesh–Uttar Pradesh border) — not Bhopal. The other three pairs correctly match institution to district.
- (a)Saket Ramayan Kala Sangrahalaya – Orchha — Correctly paired — this Ramayana-art museum sits inside the Orchha Fort complex, Orchha.
- (b)Premchand Srijan Peeth – Ujjain — Correctly paired — the Premchand Srijan Peeth (honouring Munshi Premchand) is located at Ujjain.
- (c)Muktibodh Srijan Peeth – Sagar — Correctly paired — the Muktibodh Srijan Peeth (honouring Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh) is located at Sagar.
Madhya Pradesh's Department of Culture (Sanskriti Parishad) runs several named academies and 'Srijan Peeth' institutions across different districts, each honouring a particular art form or literary figure — deliberately spread out across the state rather than clustered only in the capital, Bhopal.
The distractor pattern is that test-takers often assume a state's cultural bodies all sit in the capital city; the exam rewards knowing the actual host district for each named institute.
- Saket Ramayan Kala Sangrahalaya — India's first Ramayana-themed art museum — is at Orchha, inside the Orchha Fort complex.
- Premchand Srijan Peeth (honouring Munshi Premchand) is located at Ujjain.
- Muktibodh Srijan Peeth (honouring Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh) is located at Sagar.
- Tulsi Shodh Sansthan is actually located at Chitrakoot, not Bhopal — making that pair the incorrect one.
Only the Tulsi Shodh Sansthan pair is mismatched — it sits at Chitrakoot, not Bhopal.
- Assuming every 'Srijan Peeth'/'Sansthan' institute sits in Bhopal because it is the state capital
- Confusing Tulsi Shodh Sansthan (Chitrakoot) with Bhopal-based cultural academies
MPPSC repeatedly frames this as 'match institution to city' or 'which pair is incorrect' — memorise the specific district each MP cultural institute sits in, not just its name.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Tulsi Shodh Sansthan, a research institution on Tulsidas and the Ramcharitmanas, is located in Madhya Pradesh at:
- (a)Chitrakoot
- (b)Bhopal
- (c)Ujjain
- (d)Gwalior
Answer(a) Chitrakoot — the Tulsidas-linked pilgrim town on the MP–UP border.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Kalidas Akademi, Madhya Pradesh's Sanskrit-culture institution associated with the annual Kalidas Samaroh, is situated at:
- (a)Ujjain
- (b)Bhopal
- (c)Gwalior
- (d)Indore
Answer(a) Ujjain — the city linked to Kalidasa's legendary association with Malwa.