Banking GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, Union Minister of Communications and Development of North Eastern Region, who chaired the review and asked the department to sustain its growth through customer acquisition, service excellence, business diversification and faster digitalisation of services.

The correct answer is Bihar, which reached 97.15 per cent of its proportionate target for the quarter and was recognised for that performance.

The parcels vertical earned Rs 318.9 crore in the quarter, and Kerala, the North East, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar went past their quarterly targets in it.

It marks a year-on-year growth of 24 per cent.

The joint statement names these four as the members of the Visegrad Group, often written as V4, and both leaders welcomed the first foreign ministers' meeting held between India and the group.

In the section on multilateral cooperation, the Polish side supported India's membership of a reformed and expanded Security Council and reiterated its support for India's candidature for a non-permanent seat for the term 2028-29.

India welcomed Poland's announcement of joining it, and the outcome is listed under the area of disaster management.

The list of outcomes of the Polish Prime Minister's official visit places the target of doubling bilateral trade by 2030 first, under the area of trade, and the joint statement repeats that the leaders set this target while inviting Polish companies to expand investment in India.

Saubhagya, the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana, was launched in 2017 to give an electricity connection to every household in India.

When crude supply is disrupted, oil prices rise, and almost every good in India becomes costlier to make and move.

Referring to efforts to widen international institutional partnerships, Dr Jat pointed to the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with CAST, which is expected to open new avenues of cooperation in agricultural research, capacity development and knowledge exchange.

The roundtable that Dr M. L. Jat addressed was held on the sidelines of the Norman E Borlaug International Dialogue during the World Food Prize Foundation programme at Des Moines in the United States, and he joined it virtually.

He is Secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education and Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, and he addressed the roundtable virtually, speaking in his capacity as President of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India.

The programme, launched on 15 August 1995 and now renamed the Pradhan Mantri Samajik Sahayata Yojana, gives effect to Article 41, which directs the State to provide public assistance in cases of unemployment, old age, sickness and disablement.

Section 2(r) of that Act defines a person with benchmark disability as one with not less than 40 per cent of a specified disability, as certified by the certifying authority, and the Cabinet decision of 14 October 2026 brings the pension on to that measure.

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, approved this outlay on 14 October 2026 when it cleared the continuation of the National Social Assistance Programme for five years and renamed it the Pradhan Mantri Samajik Sahayata Yojana.

PM-DAKSH was an additionality to PMKVY, and every job role used for skill training under it was taken from the Skill India Digital Hub portal, where PMKVY job roles are also listed.

After a course finished, the training institute had to provide wage employment or self-employment to at least that share of the candidates it had trained.

That many candidates were trained under PM-DAKSH in the years from 2020-21 to 2023-24.

PM-DAKSH was a Central Sector Scheme of that ministry, and its Department of Social Justice and Empowerment ran it through three corporations, NSFDC, NBCFDC and NSKFDC, which reimbursed training costs to the institutes.