What is the rank of India in the open Government Index 2015 prepared by the World Justice Project.

The correct answer is B, the 37th rank among the countries assessed in the World Justice Project's Open Government Index 2015.

The index measures how open a government is across four principles: publicised laws and government data, the right to information, civic participation, and complaint mechanisms. It draws on household surveys and expert questionnaires, and Scandinavian countries led the rankings that year.

• Option A (24th), C (67th) and D (89th) do not match India's position in the 2015 edition. Each is a different rank, so candidates should fix the figure to the specific report, not to a rough sense of India's standing.

The core concept is the link between transparency and accountability. India's Right to Information Act, 2005 is the main legal pillar for openness, and India joined the Open Government Partnership in 2011. This makes the index a useful Mains anchor for questions on transparency, citizen charters and the RTI regime.

Note that the WJP later stopped publishing this as a stand-alone index and now focuses on its annual Rule of Law Index, so recent rankings should be checked against that report.

Trap: confusing this with the WJP Rule of Law Index or with other transparency rankings such as the Global Open Data Index, which measure different things and have different country positions.