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Question: Recently where did the new state of the art and modern test facilities installed as a part of the National Automotive Testing and R & D infrastructure project (NATRIP) at International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT)?
(a) Bhopal
(b) Singur
(c) Manesar
(d) Chinhat
Ans (c)
Related facts:

  • On 23 February 2016 Union Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises (MoHI & PE) Anant G Geete inaugurated a new state of the art and modern test facilities installed as a part of the National Automotive Testing and R & D infrastructure project (NATRiP) at International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT), Manesarin Gurgaon district of Haryana.
  • The NATRIP project was setup in line with the vision of automotive mission plan 2016.
  • This plan will help India to emerge as the destination of choice in the world for design and manufacture of automobiles and auto components with output reaching a level of US$ 145 billion accounting for more than 10% of the GDP and providing additional employment to 25 million people by 2016.
  • NATRIP has helped realize this vision inform of an ambitious project for setting up world-class automotive testing and R&D infrastructure in the country.
  • The International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT) was set up in 2006 and is the first of the new world class centers established under the National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRIP).

Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=136669
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=136642