Pick the correctly matched pairs : A. AICTE - Teacher Education B. ICSSR -…
2024
Pick the correctly matched pairs :
A. AICTE - Teacher Education
B. ICSSR - Social Science Research
C. NMC - Medical Education
D. NCTE - Technical Education
E. RCI - Special Education
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: D. B, C and E Only — ConceptA question of this kind pairs an abbreviation with a field of work. Every national body of this sort has a founding instrument — an Act of Parliament…
- A.
B, C and D Only
- B.
A, C and E Only
- C.
A and D Only
- D.
B, C and E Only
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Correct answer: D
Concept
A question of this kind pairs an abbreviation with a field of work. Every national body of this sort has a founding instrument — an Act of Parliament for a statutory regulator, a government resolution or registration for an autonomous apex body — and that instrument, not the sound of the abbreviation, fixes the single field the body is responsible for. The pairing is therefore decided by expanding the abbreviation to its full name and then reading the mandate behind it; where the full name does not spell the field out, the founding mandate settles it.
Application
Expanding each acronym listed in the question and stating the field its founding mandate assigns to it:
Body | Full form | Field it is responsible for |
|---|---|---|
AICTE | All India Council for Technical Education | Technical education: engineering, technology, management, pharmacy, architecture |
ICSSR | Indian Council of Social Science Research | Promotion and funding of social science research |
NMC | National Medical Commission | Medical education and the medical profession |
NCTE | National Council for Teacher Education | Teacher education and teacher-training programmes |
RCI | Rehabilitation Council of India | Training and standards for special education and rehabilitation professionals |
Cross-check
Testing each pair given in the question against that table:
AICTE with teacher education does not hold: the AICTE Act, 1987 places technical education under this council.
ICSSR with social science research holds: the Indian Council of Social Science Research is an autonomous apex body set up by the Government of India, registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, to promote and fund research in the social sciences.
NMC with medical education holds: the National Medical Commission, created by the NMC Act, 2019, replaced the Medical Council of India as the regulator of medical education.
NCTE with technical education does not hold: the NCTE Act, 1993 places teacher education under this council.
RCI with special education holds: the Rehabilitation Council of India Act, 1992 makes this council responsible for regulating the training of special education and rehabilitation professionals.
Result
The two failing pairs are a swapped pair: technical education belongs to AICTE and teacher education to NCTE, not the other way round. The correctly matched pairs listed in the question are therefore B, C and E only.