Question

National Rail and Transport Institute, India's first railway university has been opened in which of the following states ?
1. Telangana
2. Bihar
3. Gujarat
4. Uttar Pradesh

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Gujarat

The correct answer is Gujarat.

• Railway Minister Piyush Goyal along with the Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani is dedicated India’s very first Railway University at Vadodara in Gujarat to the nation in 2018.
• It is India’s first railway university and only third such in the whole world after Russia and China.
• The building’s construction of the university has been designed on the lines of Pratap Vilas Palace of the erstwhile Gaekwad state. As an interesting add-on, The National Academy of Indian Railways is also situated on the same campus. Till the time the greenfield campus for the university gets ready, both the institutions will run from this campus.
• The Ministry of Railways has sanctioned Rs 421 crores for the university and its curriculum’s development for the next five years.

State	Capital	Chief Minister (Apr 2021)	Governor
Telangana	Hyderabad	K. Chandrashekhar Rao	Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan
Bihar	Patna	Nitish Kumar	Phagu Chauhan
Gujarat	Gandhinagar	Vijay Rupani	Acharya Devvrat
Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow	Yogi Adityanath	Anandiben Patel