Banking GK Questions 2026

ICAR-IARI in New Delhi observed Swachh Bharat Diwas on 2 October 2026 on this theme, with a series of cleanliness activities across the institute and a call for sustained participation in keeping the campus clean and healthy.

Speaking at the Swachh Bharat Diwas programme of ICAR-IARI in New Delhi, he appreciated the cleanliness drive, asked for Swachhata to be treated as a year-round and team-based activity, and said a better workplace environment supports the well-being of employees as well as the advancement of science.

The campaign is a month-long exercise and it opened on 2 October 2026, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, with cleanliness drives at ICAR establishments across the country and a floral tribute to Gandhi.

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research is running the month-long campaign along with its 114 institutes, Regional Centres, Agricultural Technology Application Research Institutes and Krishi Vigyan Kendras, which makes the drive national in reach.

The Coal Controller Organisation held twelve thematic webinars under the SUVIKALP Samvaad Webinar Series, which was designed as a structured knowledge-sharing and capacity-building exercise to support informed decisions on mine closure and sustainable repurposing.

PRISM is the next step after SUVIKALP has helped identify a suitable project for land left over from mining.

SUVIKALP received the SKOCH Gold Award 2026 under this category on 26 September 2026, and the choice of category fits the tool, which ranks mine repurposing options through a structured, data-driven process that weighs technical, environmental, social and economic criteria.

The CCO, which functions under the Ministry of Coal, developed SUVIKALP as an in-house Mine Repurposing Tool to help stakeholders select suitable projects for land left behind after mining, and it is the CCO that has been recognised with the SKOCH Gold Award 2026 in the category Digital Operational Efficiency…

The SARAS journey opened in 1999, when the first National SARAS Mela was organised in Delhi with roughly 65 beneficiaries, so the first statement holds.

The Lakhpati Didi initiative under DAY-NRLM moved up in stages, and in February 2026 the government announced a raised target of six crore Lakhpati Didis, a phase that puts weight on holding on to income gains and helping enterprises grow rather than only counting members.

SARAS Melas are organised by the government under this mission, which is its flagship programme for cutting rural poverty and building women’s economic strength.

The National SARAS Mela is being held at Punnami Ghat in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, from 13 October to 31 October 2026, and it is the first National SARAS Mela placed anywhere outside the Delhi-NCR region.

Narrow money, M1, is currency held by the public plus net demand deposits with commercial banks, the most liquid forms of money.

Personal Income is the part of National Income that actually reaches households, plus the transfers they receive. National Income counts all factor incomes earned in the economy, but not all of it is paid out to people.

Khushkhera, Bhiwadi and Neemrana lie in the Alwar and Khairthal-Tijara belt of north-eastern Rajasthan, close to the Delhi border and on the Delhi-Jaipur highway, and the region is already a cluster of automobile ancillary, electronics and Japanese-owned units.

Vikram Udyogpuri is an integrated industrial township developed near Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh as one of the state's two nodes in the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor.

The National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation, which was earlier the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation, is the implementing agency of the National Industrial Corridor Development Programme and functions under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade in that ministry.

Its three nodes are Ponneri in Tamil Nadu, Tumakuru in Karnataka and Krishnapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, and the corridor is developed with Japanese cooperation to link the engineering and automobile cluster of Chennai with the electronics and machine tool cluster of Bengaluru.

The Visakhapatnam Chennai stretch was taken up as its first phase, with nodes at Visakhapatnam, Machilipatnam, Donakonda and Srikalahasti-Chittoor.

The correct answer is B, the Asian Development Bank, which prepared the conceptual development plan for the corridor and has financed its infrastructure in Andhra Pradesh.