Who won the first prize in the National Youth Parliament Festival 2024?
- (a)Anshika Singh
- (b)Yatin Bhaskar Duggal
- (c)Radhika Goel
- (d)Kanishka Sharma
Correct — B, Yatin Bhaskar Duggal.
Yatin Bhaskar Duggal was declared the first-prize winner of the National Youth Parliament Festival 2024 at the concluding national round in the Central Hall of Parliament, New Delhi. He was a student of Lovely Professional University and received a cash award of ₹2 lakh.
The festival is a tiered speaking contest of the Department of Youth Affairs: a district round, then a state round, then the national round. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla addressed the concluding session at which the prizes were announced.
The thing to carry away is the whole podium, not the winner alone. This option set also contains the person who finished third, so a half-remembered name will not separate the four choices.
- (a)Anshika Singh — The prizes announced at the 2024 festival went to Yatin Bhaskar Duggal in first place, Vaishna Pitchai of Tamil Nadu in second place, and Kanishka Sharma of Rajasthan in third. Anshika Singh is not one of those three names.
A name that sounds plausible is not evidence of a result. Test it against the placings you actually read, not against how familiar it feels.
- (c)Radhika Goel — The same check settles this one: the announced 2024 result carries the names Duggal, Pitchai and Sharma, and Radhika Goel is not among them.
Store an award result as a short ordered list of names rather than as a single winner. An unfamiliar name can then be set aside in a second, instead of competing with the one you half recall.
- (d)Kanishka Sharma — Kanishka Sharma of Rajasthan is the right answer to who took the third prize at this same 2024 festival, which makes this the sharpest of the three wrong options.
The stem asks for the first prize. Recognising the name tells you it belongs to this event; it does not tell you where the name sits in the order.
The National Youth Parliament Festival is a nationwide speaking competition of the Department of Youth Affairs, in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
Young people aged 18 to 25 debate public-policy themes in a mock parliamentary format. Selection climbs from a District Youth Parliament to a State Youth Parliament and then to the National Youth Parliament, so national finalists arrive as state representatives.
The festival grew out of the Prime Minister's Mann Ki Baat address of 31 December 2017, which proposed a mock parliament in every district.
A scheme like this one offers two separate handles: the design of the scheme, and the result of a particular edition.
The design — the parent ministry, the 18 to 25 age band, the three rounds — is stable and worth learning once. The result changes with each edition, and the result is what this question asked for.
- The National Youth Parliament Festival is organised by the Department of Youth Affairs, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
- Participation is open to young people in the 18 to 25 year age group.
- The contest is staged in three rounds: District Youth Parliament, State Youth Parliament, and the National Youth Parliament.
- Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan and the National Service Scheme conduct the district and state rounds.
- Yatin Bhaskar Duggal won the first prize in the 2024 edition and received a cash award of ₹2 lakh.
- The 2024 winner was a student of Lovely Professional University.
- Vaishna Pitchai of Tamil Nadu was placed second and Kanishka Sharma of Rajasthan third in 2024.
- The 2024 national round concluded in the Central Hall of Parliament, New Delhi.
- Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla addressed the concluding session of the 2024 festival.
- The festival traces to the Prime Minister's Mann Ki Baat address of 31 December 2017, which proposed a mock parliament in every district.
The keyed name is the first prize. The third-place name also appears among this question's four options.
- The third-place name from this same festival is one of the four options, so recognising a name does not fix the rank the stem asks for.
- A result question can ask for first place, second place, or the state that supplied the winner; the option lists overlap, so read which one is wanted.
- Anshika Singh and Radhika Goel are not among the three announced prize winners; a name becomes usable only once it is attached to a published result.
- The scheme's fixed design — parent ministry, 18 to 25 age band, three rounds — is a different question from the year's winner, and knowing one does not answer the other.
The plainest form is straight name recall: the event is named in the stem and the four options are people, at least one of whom actually placed — in this item, two of them did.
The same material is also inverted — the person is given and you name the honour — or folded into a match-the-list block pairing several 2024 awards with their recipients.
A third form drops the winner entirely and asks about the scheme: which ministry runs it, which age group it covers, how the rounds are staged.
GEO_GS_2021_Q1092021Same scheme, different handle. That question tests the festival's design — the 18 to 25 age band it is meant to give a voice to — while this one tests the result of a single edition. Learning the age band would not have answered this stem, and knowing the 2024 winner would not have answered that one.
UKPSC_2024_PRE_GSI_Q1082024From this same paper, and the same device: recall one 2024 honour from four candidates. It differs in that the answer there is a book, Kairos, at an international literary prize, whereas here the answer is a person at a domestic youth-affairs competition.
UPPSC_2024_PRE_GSI_Q562024The same shape — name the individual who won a 2024 honour, with four personal names as options. It differs in domain and in setting: an acting award in a category at an international film festival, against a nationwide public-speaking competition run by a ministry.
UPPSC_2024_PRE_GSI_Q1402024Same content, harder packaging: it pairs several 2024 awards with their recipients in a match-the-list block instead of asking about one honour. Two remembered pairings are needed to settle it through the codes — A-3 together with D-4 leaves only option (a) — while here the one name is the whole answer.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The National Youth Parliament Festival is organised by which of the following?
- (a)Ministry of Education
- (b)Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
- (c)Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
- (d)Ministry of Culture
Answerb — The festival is run by the Department of Youth Affairs, which sits in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports; the district and state rounds are conducted through Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan and the National Service Scheme.(c) is the near miss: the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs conducts a separate Youth Parliament Competition for schools and colleges, which is a different programme. (a) and (d) name ministries other than the one that owns this scheme.
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The National Youth Parliament Festival is open to participants in which age group?
- (a)15 to 18 years
- (b)18 to 25 years
- (c)21 to 30 years
- (d)25 to 35 years
Answerb — The festival is designed to hear the voice of youth aged 18 to 25, and that band is part of the scheme's stated eligibility.The other three bands do not match that stated band: (a) sits below it, while (c) and (d) run past its upper limit of 25.
- practice — not a real PYQ
At the National Youth Parliament Festival 2024, the second prize was won by:
- (a)Kanishka Sharma
- (b)Vaishna Pitchai
- (c)Yatin Bhaskar Duggal
- (d)Anshika Singh
Answerb — Vaishna Pitchai of Tamil Nadu was placed second in the 2024 edition.(a) Kanishka Sharma of Rajasthan finished third and (c) Yatin Bhaskar Duggal took the first prize, so both are genuine finishers offered at the wrong rank. (d) Anshika Singh is not one of the three announced prize winners.
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The rounds of the National Youth Parliament Festival are staged in which sequence?
- (a)State Youth Parliament, District Youth Parliament, National Youth Parliament
- (b)District Youth Parliament, State Youth Parliament, National Youth Parliament
- (c)Block Youth Parliament, District Youth Parliament, State Youth Parliament
- (d)College Youth Parliament, University Youth Parliament, National Youth Parliament
Answerb — Selection climbs from the district round to the state round and then to the national round, which is why the national finalists represent their states.(a) inverts the first two rounds. (c) starts below the district level and stops at the state level, so it never reaches the national round the festival culminates in. (d) describes an institution-based ladder rather than the scheme's three stated rounds.