The total number of central universities in India in April 2015 was: Note: The official answer key marks this question with code 9, meaning no option is correct or the question is wrong. In April 2015 there were 46 central universities, which is not among the choices. The nearest and most defensible option is given below.
43
A central university is one established or incorporated by an Act of Parliament, as distinct from a state university set up by a state legislature, a deemed-to-be university notified under the UGC Act, or a private university.
This question was declared defective in the official answer key, which marks it with code 9 - meaning that no option is correct or the question is wrong. The reason is straightforward: as of April 2015 the number of central universities in India was 46, and that figure does not appear among the four choices offered.
The number had grown considerably in the preceding years. A large expansion took place around 2009, when several new central universities were created in states that did not previously have one, taking the total well past forty. The figure of 43 in option (4) corresponds to the count at an earlier point in that expansion, before the last few additions, which makes it the nearest of the four to the true value and the most defensible choice if an answer must be recorded.
The remaining options are further off. Figures of 8, 14 and 27 reflect much earlier stages, decades before the period the question asks about.
Hence no option is strictly correct, and 43 is recorded as the nearest defensible answer.
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