SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 19 September 2025, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 3 of 100

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The "National Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy" aims to foster creativity and innovation in India. Which of the following is a key objective of this policy?

(a)To discourage the filing of patents by domestic inventors to reduce bureaucratic hurdles.
(b)To create public awareness about the economic, social, and cultural benefits of IPRs.
(c)To solely focus on strengthening the enforcement mechanisms against counterfeiting and piracy.
(d)To advocate for the abolition of international treaties related to intellectual property.

Answer

Why

Correct — B. The National IPR Policy lays down seven objectives. Objective 1, 'IPR Awareness: Outreach and Promotion', is to create public awareness about the economic, social and cultural benefits of IPRs among all sections of society.

Option (b) is that objective almost word for word.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
To discourage the filing of patents by domestic inventors to reduce bureaucratic hurdles. — The policy does the opposite. Objective 2 is to stimulate the generation of IPRs, and its action points include steps to increase domestic filings of patent applications.
(c)
To solely focus on strengthening the enforcement mechanisms against counterfeiting and piracy. — Enforcement and adjudication is Objective 6, one of seven. The word solely makes this false, since the policy also covers awareness, generation, laws, administration, commercialisation and human capital.
(d)
To advocate for the abolition of international treaties related to intellectual property. — The policy calls India's IP laws fully TRIPS-compliant and says India will engage constructively in negotiating international treaties. Abolishing them is nowhere in it.

Concept

The National Intellectual Property Rights Policy was approved by the Union Cabinet on 12 May 2016 under the slogan 'Creative India; Innovative India'.

Its seven objectives are awareness, generation of IPRs, legal framework, administration, commercialisation, enforcement and adjudication, and human capital development.

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP, now DPIIT) is the nodal department, and the policy set up the Cell for IPR Promotion and Management (CIPAM) under it.

Three options fail on a single word: discourage, solely, abolition. Each pushes a real theme of the policy (patents, enforcement, treaties) to an extreme the policy does not take.

Key facts

The National IPR Policy was approved by the Union Cabinet on 12 May 2016.
Its slogan pairs 'Creative India' with 'Innovative India'.
Objective 1 is to create public awareness of the economic, social and cultural benefits of IPRs.
DIPP, now DPIIT, is the nodal department, with CIPAM set up under it.

Study next

The seven objectives of the National IPR Policy 2016The TRIPS Agreement and the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public HealthPatents, trademarks, copyright and geographical indications: the law behind each

Common traps

Picking (c) because enforcement against counterfeiting and piracy is a real objective: the word 'solely' makes it false.
Confusing the 2016 IPR Policy with the Industrial Policy Resolution, which an SSC stem also abbreviates as IPR.

Watch the acronym: 16 Sep 2025, 09:00, GA Q.24 uses 'IPR 1956' for the Industrial Policy Resolution and its Schedules A, B and C, a different policy from this one.

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