IBPS Current Affairs Quiz: 29 September 2026

The correct answer is 81.1 per cent. The Periodic Labour Force Survey of 2025 puts the country's overall literacy rate at that level, and this is the headline figure quoted for India's literacy today. Option A, 74.04 per cent, is wrong because that was the literacy rate recorded in the 2011 Census, an older measurement and not the survey result. Option B, 77.4 per cent, is wrong because that is only the rural literacy rate for people aged seven years and above in the same survey, not the figure for the whole country. Option D, 89 per cent, is wrong because that is the urban literacy rate for the age group of seven years and above, again a part of the picture rather than the national average. Candidates should keep the three apart: 81.1 per cent for the nation, 89 per cent urban and 77.4 per cent rural.

The correct answer is Shanghai, in China, which hosted the 48th edition of the WorldSkills Competition from 23 to 26 September 2026. The contest drew more than 1,400 young competitors from about 68 countries and regions who competed across 64 skills, and India took part with its largest contingent so far. Option A is wrong because Lyon in France hosted an earlier edition and not this one. Option C is wrong because Kazan in Russia also hosted a previous edition of the competition. Option D is wrong because New Delhi did not host the event; NIFT New Delhi only served as the training centre where the Indian competitor in Fashion Technology prepared for four months before travelling. Learn the edition number along with the host city, since the pairing is a common question.

The correct answer is 2 to 31 October 2026. Special Campaign 6.0 is undertaken across the Government of India in two stages, and this is the window for the implementation phase. Option A is wrong because those dates belong to the preparatory phase, during which offices mobilise staff, list pending references, mark out sites for cleanliness drives and plan the disposal of scrap and electronic waste. Options C and D are wrong because the campaign is neither a November nor a January exercise in this edition. The drive rests on two themes, cleanliness and the reduction of pendency, and this year it also carries a distinct emphasis on gathering, separating and disposing of electronic waste. Learn both phases together, since a question may ask for either one.

The correct answer is more than Rs 1200 crore. At the conference the Union Agriculture Minister handed financial sanction letters under PM-RKVY to the agriculture ministers of ten states, and the total came to more than Rs 1200 crore. The individual shares add up to that figure: West Bengal Rs 290 crore, Haryana Rs 198 crore, Chhattisgarh Rs 181 crore, Arunachal Pradesh Rs 154 crore, Bihar Rs 114 crore, Karnataka Rs 104 crore, Mizoram Rs 75 crore, Himachal Pradesh Rs 64 crore, Jharkhand Rs 58 crore and Punjab Rs 43 crore. Option A is too low and does not match the sum of the state shares. Option C and option D are both far above what was actually distributed and correspond to no announcement made at the conference. Candidates should also note that the money was released so that states could begin work on the ground at once rather than wait for funds after the season had started.

The correct answer is 125 days. The law provides a statutory guarantee of wage employment for 125 days in every financial year, and the guarantee is available to every rural household whose adult members volunteer for unskilled manual work. Option A is the figure people remember from the older rural employment law that this framework has replaced, which makes it the commonest wrong choice in the paper. Option C and option D are higher than anything the statute promises and appear in no official statement about the mission. Along with the number of days, remember that the guarantee is tied to four thematic areas: water security, core rural infrastructure, livelihood-related infrastructure and protection against extreme weather events. The framework also aims at empowerment, growth, convergence and saturation, and it works through plans prepared at the gram panchayat level and approved by the Gram Sabha.

The correct answer is the Foreigners Division. One of the two officials apprehended is presently posted there, and the other, now working in a Pay and Accounts Office, had served in the same division at an earlier point. That is the wing of the Home Ministry through which foreign contribution registration files pass, which is why both men were in a position to offer an association that its pending application would be pushed along. Option B deals with matters of internal security and not with registration of associations receiving funds from abroad. Option C looks after the management of the country’s borders, a different subject altogether. Option D is concerned with modernising police forces. Aspirants should tie the subject to the ministry and then to the division, because papers often test the second step after testing the first.

The correct answer is ten. The States and Union Territories that declared full literacy in that period are Ladakh, Mizoram, Goa, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir, which comes to ten in all. Option A, five, is wrong because it counts only half the list. Option B, eight, is wrong for the same reason and leaves out two of the ten names. Option D, fourteen, is wrong because no such number of States or Union Territories has crossed the mark; the declaration rests on reaching 95 per cent literacy, which is the level the Department of School Education and Literacy treats as full literacy, and only ten have reported it so far. Remembering the list matters because questions often ask which State is not among them.

The correct answer is tenth. India entered the competition with its largest-ever contingent, 70 competitors across 63 skills, and came away in tenth position with 6 silver medals and 20 Medals for Excellence. Options A and B are wrong because India did not finish as high as fifth or eighth in this edition, and option D is wrong because the country placed better than thirteenth. The medal count is worth remembering separately from the rank: six silvers and twenty Medals for Excellence. Of those, students of the National Institute of Fashion Technology contributed two silver medals and one Medal for Excellence, won in Digital Interactive Media Design, Retail Sales and Fashion Technology respectively. Questions frequently pair the rank with the size of the contingent.

The correct answer is the collection, segregation and disposal of e-waste. The campaign has always worked on cleanliness and the clearing of pending matters, and in this edition the government has laid special stress on handling electronic waste effectively. Options A, C and D name measures that offices may well take, but none of them is the fresh emphasis announced for this campaign. The government has also directed attention to field and outstation offices that provide services to the public, besides Ministries and Departments, their attached and subordinate offices, autonomous bodies and public sector undertakings. The Ministry of Tourism accordingly listed the identification of measures for collecting and segregating electronic waste among its preparatory activities, along with space management and record management.

The correct answer is West Bengal, which was sanctioned Rs 290 crore, the biggest single share of the more than Rs 1200 crore distributed under PM-RKVY. Punjab in option A stands at the other end of the list with Rs 43 crore, the smallest of the ten sanctions announced. Bihar in option B received Rs 114 crore, well behind West Bengal, and Haryana in option D came second with Rs 198 crore. The full list also covered Chhattisgarh with Rs 181 crore, Arunachal Pradesh with Rs 154 crore, Karnataka with Rs 104 crore, Mizoram with Rs 75 crore, Himachal Pradesh with Rs 64 crore and Jharkhand with Rs 58 crore. Learning the top three and the bottom of this list is enough for most objective papers, because examiners usually ask for the highest or the lowest recipient rather than the whole table.

The correct answer is 1 July 2026. The Act was passed in 2025 and was brought into force on that date, after which it was rolled out in every rural area of the country. The changeover from the earlier rural employment guarantee law was described as seamless, because the digital systems that support verification, monitoring and payment were already working when the new framework began. Option A is the start of the financial year and is a natural guess, but it is not the commencement date. Option C is a date associated with several government campaigns and anniversaries, not with this statute. Option D is the start of the calendar year and has no connection with the mission. Candidates should pair the commencement date with the progress cut-off used in the backgrounder, which reports figures as they stood on 24 September 2026.

The correct answer is the Special Cell of the Delhi Police, which acted in coordination with central agencies after receiving specific information from the Ministry of Home Affairs and apprehended the two officials in New Delhi. Option B is a wing that investigates economic offences at the state level, but it was not the unit named in this action. Option C works on smuggling and customs-related intelligence and had no part in the case. Option D guards railway property and passengers and is unconnected with it. The two men held are a Senior Accountant and an Accountant, and they are alleged to have approached an association and demanded money for facilitating its pending registration. The ministry has said that legal as well as departmental action is being taken and that further investigation is still in progress.

The correct answer is 1,037.90 crore rupees. ULLAS, also known as the Nav Bharat Saaksharta Karyakram or the New India Literacy Programme, aims to cover 5 crore learners over 2022-27, and that outlay is the sum sanctioned for the period. Options B and D simply alter the digits of the true figure and have no basis, and option C is a round number that is not the sanctioned amount either. The scheme is centrally sponsored, is aligned with the National Education Policy and works for adults of 15 years and above who missed formal schooling. It counts about 4.03 crore registered learners and more than 52.20 lakh volunteers, while over 3.3 crore learners have appeared for the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Assessment Test. Learn the outlay together with the learner target, since both are asked.

The correct answer is Retail Sales, in which Saniya Joshi of NIFT Panchkula won a silver medal. Option B is wrong because Fashion Technology was the skill of Vidhi Niravkumar Suthar, a Fashion Design graduate of NIFT Gandhinagar, who received a Medal for Excellence rather than a silver. Option C is wrong because Visual Merchandising was the skill in which Anuja Ajay Vare of NIFT Bengaluru represented India, and no medal came from that category. Option D is wrong because the silver in Digital Interactive Media Design was won by Kovid Ajay Gangrade of NIFT Mumbai. Retail Sales and Digital Interactive Media Design were among the newer and emerging skill categories highlighted at Shanghai, reflecting the growing place of digital platforms and customer experience in the fashion trade.

The correct answer is 92,749 square feet, the space the Ministry of Tourism reported as freed during the previous edition of the campaign. The other options only shuffle the digits of that figure and have no basis in the Ministry's account. The same edition brought in 12.69 lakh rupees through the disposal of scrap. On the paperwork side, 4,700 physical files were weeded out and 1,100 electronic files were closed, while 413 Swachhata Campaign programmes were conducted in different parts of the country. These numbers matter because the Ministry has said it wants to build on them in the sixth edition and tighten cleanliness, record management and the clearing of pendency further. Candidates should learn the space figure along with the scrap earnings.

The correct answer is 22 October to 30 November. The campaign was announced to protect soil health and the environment, and scientists together with other stakeholders are to take part in it. Working from Soil Health Cards, it promotes balanced use of fertiliser so that soil fertility and beneficial insects are not damaged, and it encourages pulse cultivation in the rice fallow fields of eastern India, especially Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha and West Bengal, once paddy has been harvested. Option B names a window that belongs to a different government cleanliness campaign, not to this one. Option C repeats the dates fixed for the rabi interface meetings at district and state level, which are a separate announcement from the same conference. Option D is not a period mentioned at all. Note the pairing carefully, since the same conference produced several date-based announcements.

The correct answer is 318. The VGPP framework identifies that many types of permissible works, spread over the four thematic areas of the mission. A Viksit Gram Panchayat Plan is prepared with the participation of the Gram Sabha, which also recommends and approves it. The process starts with an inventory of assets, infrastructure and service gaps in the panchayat, including assets built under central and state schemes, and then uses GIS along with Yuktdhara and PM Gati Shakti so that spending is not duplicated. Options A, B and D are plausible-looking counts but none of them is the figure given for permissible works. Remember also that these plans are consolidated at block, district, state and national level, and that the consolidated version feeds the Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack.

The correct answer is that the services are delivered online through the FCRA portal, and that no intermediary, agent or individual has been authorised to facilitate any such service. The ministry made this point while announcing the action against the two officials, because the pair had allegedly offered an association that it could get a pending registration cleared for a payment. Option A is the exact opposite of the ministry’s statement, since no private agent has any authority in the matter. Option C is wrong because the process is not run through district offices and does not require a personal visit. Option D is wrong because the subject rests with the Union Home Ministry and its Foreigners Division, not with state home departments. Remembering the online-only route is also the practical protection an applicant has against a demand for money.

The correct answer is Samagra Shiksha. The National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy, shortened to NIPUN Bharat, was begun in July 2021 under the aegis of Samagra Shiksha and works on the foundational stage covering children of 3 to 8 years, with the goal of universal foundational literacy and numeracy by 2026-27 so that every child gains the basic skills by Grade 2. Option A is wrong because PM POSHAN is the scheme that serves one hot cooked meal to school students and is about nutrition, not reading and numeracy. Option C is wrong because PM e-VIDYA brings together digital, online and on-air learning. Option D is wrong because PM SHRI is the scheme to develop exemplar schools. Samagra Shiksha itself subsumed Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan and Teacher Education.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Textiles, which announced the achievement of the National Institute of Fashion Technology at the competition and which NIFT thanked along with its students, experts, trainers and officials. Option A is wrong because the education ministry looks after school and higher education in general and not this institute. Option C is wrong because, although the competition is about skills, NIFT is not placed under the skill development ministry. Option D is wrong because commerce and industry is not the parent ministry either. For the institute the contest offers exposure to global occupational standards, emerging technologies and industry expectations, and what it learns there is folded back into its own training methods, which is why the institute treats the outing as more than a medal count.

The correct answer is 413. The Ministry of Tourism held that many Swachhata Campaign programmes across the country during the fifth edition of the Special Campaign, and the other three options are simply nearby numbers with no basis. Alongside the programmes the Ministry recorded 92,749 square feet of space freed and earnings of 12.69 lakh rupees from the disposal of scrap, while 4,700 physical files were weeded out and 1,100 electronic files closed. These results form the base on which the Ministry is planning Special Campaign 6.0, whose implementation phase runs from 2 to 31 October 2026 after a preparatory phase from 15 to 30 September 2026. The preparatory meeting for the Ministry was convened on 16 September 2026.