SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 14 September 2025, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 12 of 100

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Which Padma awardees and fields is/are correctly paired? 1. Gokul Chandra Das – Folk Music 2. Dinesh Saini – Environment 3. Farooq Ahmad Mir – Literature 4. Geeta Devi – Agriculture

(a)1 only
(b)2 only
(c)3 only
(d)4 only

Answer

Why

Correct — A. Gokul Chandra Das of West Bengal, a folk percussionist who plays the dhak, a traditional Bengali drum, received the Padma Shri for 2025. The Gazette records his field as Art, and Folk Music names that art.

Farooq Ahmad Mir of Jammu and Kashmir is also a 2025 Padma Shri, but in Art, not Literature. No Dinesh Saini or Geeta Devi appears in either 2025 Gazette notification.

Why the others are wrong

(b)
2 only — No Dinesh Saini appears in the 2025 Padma lists notified on 28 April and 27 May, so statement 2 pairs a field with no award behind it.
(c)
3 only — Farooq Ahmad Mir is a real 2025 Padma Shri, but the Gazette of 27 May 2025 lists his field as Art, not Literature.
(d)
4 only — No Geeta Devi appears in the 2025 Padma lists. Agriculture is a field those lists use, so the label proves nothing and the name is what fails.

Concept

The Padma awards are announced on the eve of Republic Day and conferred by the President later in the year, and the Gazette notifies each awardee with a field and a State.

For 2025 the lists were notified on 28 April and 27 May. Fields are broad heads such as Art, Literature and Education, Medicine and Social Work.

So a question's narrower label, like Folk Music, must be matched to the awardee's actual work, not only to the Gazette's heading.

Key facts

Gokul Chandra Das of West Bengal received the Padma Shri for 2025 in the field of Art.
Gokul Chandra Das is a folk percussionist known for the dhak, a traditional Bengali drum.
Farooq Ahmad Mir of Jammu and Kashmir received the Padma Shri for 2025 in the field of Art.
The 2025 Padma awards were announced on 25 January 2025 and notified in the Gazette on 28 April and 27 May 2025.

Study next

Padma Vibhushan 2025 awardees and their fieldsThe dhak and other folk percussion of Bengal

Common traps

Rejecting a pairing because the Gazette's broad field (Art) differs from the question's narrower label (Folk Music).
Accepting an unfamiliar name because its field sounds plausible.

Another 2025 Padma Shri, Gita Upadhyay, is asked at 15 Sep 2025, 16:00, GA Q.10, and a folk singer's Padma Shri at 10 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.21 (Madhuri Barthwal).

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