The “Secretariat Building” of which State is knows as “Writer’s Buidling”?

The correct answer is B) West Bengal. The Writers' Building in Kolkata is the secretariat of the state government, and its name comes from the colonial period. The East India Company built it in the late 1770s to house its junior clerks, called 'writers', who kept the company's accounts and correspondence. Over time it became the seat of Bengal's and later West Bengal's administration.

• A) Assam: Its secretariat is at Dispur, Guwahati. It has no building known by this name.
• C) Maharashtra: Its secretariat is Mantralaya in Mumbai. Writers' Building is not associated with it.
• D) Karnataka: Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru is best known as the legislature building, and it is not the Writers' Building.

The core concept is the colonial origin of administrative buildings. For Mains GS-1, this links to the East India Company's administrative growth in Bengal, and to the way colonial structures were reused after 1947.

Trap: Aspirants often pick a state that has a famous legislature or an iconic capital building, such as Karnataka, and confuse it with the secretariat. The name 'Writers' Building' points to the Company-era clerks, which is the key link to West Bengal.