Which of the following is not correctly matched?
2015
Which of the following is not correctly matched?
Answer: B. Sri Badal Choudhury– Finance Minister of Tripura — ConceptIn a "which pairing is not correctly matched" item on a state’s Council of Ministers, each name-portfolio pair must be checked independently against…
- A.
Sri Tapan Chakraborty– Education (School and Higher) Minister of Tripura
- B.
Sri Badal Choudhury– Finance Minister of Tripura
- C.
Sri Naresh Chandra Jamatia– Forest Minister of Tripura
- D.
Smt. Bijita Nath– Social Welfare and Social Education Minister of Tripura
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Correct answer: B
Concept
In a "which pairing is not correctly matched" item on a state’s Council of Ministers, each name-portfolio pair must be checked independently against the official record for the ministry that was actually in office at the time the exam was set — exactly one label is deliberately swapped while the rest are genuine, so the item tests factual recall of that cabinet’s real portfolio allocation rather than any internal logic in the stem.
Application
Checking each pair against the official record of the Fourth Manik Sarkar ministry of Tripura (in office 6 March 2013 – 9 March 2018, the sitting ministry at the time of this December 2015 exam):
Minister | Portfolio stated in the option | Portfolio on record (December 2015) |
|---|---|---|
Tapan Chakraborty | Education (School and Higher) | Education (School and Higher) |
Badal Choudhury | Finance | Health and Family Welfare; Revenue and Public Works |
Naresh Chandra Jamatia | Forest | Forest; Rural Development; Election |
Bijita Nath | Social Welfare and Social Education | Social Welfare and Social Education; Welfare of OBC; Science, Technology and Environment |
Three of the four pairs line up with the record. Badal Choudhury’s does not: at the time of this exam, Finance was held by Bhanu Lal Saha, while Badal Choudhury held Health and Family Welfare and Revenue and Public Works. (Badal Choudhury had held the Finance portfolio earlier in the same ministry’s term, before a mid-2014 reallocation, but not at the point relevant to this question.)
Cross-check
This is independently confirmed by the Tripura Public Service Commission’s own official final answer key for this examination (CMIS Preliminary 2015, Series D), which records this same pairing as the correct response to Q52.
Result
The pairing that is NOT correctly matched is: Sri Badal Choudhury – Finance Minister of Tripura.