SBI Current Affairs Quiz: 5 October 2026

The correct answer is the National Statistics Office. The NSO, which works under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, carried out the first all-India National Household Travel Survey between July 2025 and June 2026 and released its key indicators through a factsheet. Option A, NITI Aayog, is the government’s policy think tank and publishes indices of its own, but it does not run large household sample surveys of this kind. Option C, the Reserve Bank of India, conducts surveys on consumer confidence, inflation expectations and bank credit, not on travel behaviour of households. Option D is incorrect because the Census Commissioner conducts the decennial population census rather than sample surveys on commuting. Aspirants should link NSO and MoSPI with household surveys such as this one, remembering also that the survey additionally served the data requirements of the Ministry of Railways.

The correct answer is 93.26 per cent. TRAI's annual report records overall tele-density rising to that level at the end of March 2026 from 85.04 per cent a year earlier, which is why option A is wrong, as it is the figure for the end of March 2025 and not the one being asked. Option B is wrong because 89.88 per cent is the wireless tele-density covering mobile and fixed wireless access connections, a narrower measure that leaves out wireline connections. Option D is wrong because 151.47 per cent is the urban tele-density alone, a figure above hundred because many urban users hold more than one connection; the matching rural figure is 60.46 per cent. Tele-density means telephone connections for every hundred people, so the overall number sits between the urban and rural ones. Candidates should keep the four figures of overall, wireless, urban and rural tele-density clearly apart.

The correct answer is Re-envisioning the Spirit of CSR for Viksit Bharat: From Compliance to Commitment. The conference, organised by the School of Business Environment of the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, is being held on 6 and 7 October 2026 at The Ashok in New Delhi, and has drawn over 550 delegates from across the country. Option C names the Gandhian idea of trusteeship, which the institute cites as the root of corporate social responsibility in India, but it is not the theme. Option D echoes the call made in the address for a shift from spending to transforming and from compliance to commitment, which is part of the theme but not the whole of it. Option A is a generic phrase of the kind used for many such conferences. The theme is best remembered along with the dates, the venue and the four thematic zones of the exhibition, which are Yuva, Garib, Annadata and Nari Shakti.

The correct answer is the two-wheeler, used by 42.6% of workers. The survey found the two-wheeler to be the single largest primary mode for work trips across the country, with a share of 52.3% in urban areas and 37.1% in rural areas. Option A quotes a bus share that belongs to student travel, not to work trips, where buses carry a far smaller proportion. Option B is a trap built from the rural walking figure; walking is indeed important and stands second among work trip modes, but it does not lead. Option D mixes up a state-level figure with the national one, since metro, suburban rail, monorail and trams together carry only 5.0% of urban workers nationally even though their use is far higher in a few states. Candidates should memorise the national two-wheeler share along with its urban and rural split.

The correct answer is 1,330.58 million. The report puts total telephone subscribers, that is wireless and wireline taken together, at that number at the end of March 2026, a growth of 10.81 per cent over the year. Option A is wrong because that was the subscriber base a year earlier at the end of March 2025. Option B is wrong because it counts only wireless connections, covering mobile and fixed wireless access, which grew 10.19 per cent with a net addition of 118.58 million during the year. Option D is wrong because that is the number of internet subscribers, a different measure from telephone connections, and of that total 1065.88 million were broadband users. The report also splits the telephone base into 778.79 million urban and 551.79 million rural subscribers, with wireline subscribers at 48.25 million.

The correct answer is Ram Nath Kovind. The observance of CSR Day draws on a suggestion he made as President of India at the National CSR Awards in 2019, that 2 October be set apart for corporate social responsibility. The choice of date links the observance with the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and with his idea of trusteeship, which the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs treats as the foundation of corporate responsibility in the country. Option A names a President who held office before him and option C one who held office earlier still, while option D names the President in office at present. None of them is connected with this suggestion. The institute has observed CSR Day three times so far, the latest observance serving as the curtain raiser to NCCSR 2026 in New Delhi. Only option B is correct.

The correct answer is ₹785. The survey put the average monthly outlay on commuting to a fixed workplace at ₹785 for each worker, and the figure hides a sharp divide: urban workers spend ₹1,044 a month while rural workers spend ₹612. Option A is the average monthly spend of students on travel to their educational institution, not of workers. Option B is the rural worker figure alone, so it understates the national average. Option D is the urban worker figure, which is higher than the national average rather than equal to it. There is also a gender gap worth remembering, with male workers spending ₹835 a month against ₹533 for female workers. Questions on this survey are likely to swap the student and worker numbers or the rural and urban ones, so fix all four in memory together.

The correct answer is Rs 180.73. TRAI reports monthly ARPU for wireless service at that level in 2025-26, a rise of 3.59 per cent over the year. Option A is wrong because Rs 174.46 was the ARPU of the previous year, 2024-25, and the report gives it only for comparison. Option C is wrong because Rs 190.66 is the ARPU of prepaid service alone, while the figure for postpaid service was lower at Rs 119.76; the overall wireless ARPU blends both. Option D is wrong because Rs 245.66 is the average revenue from wireless data for every data subscriber in a month, a data specific measure and not the ARPU of wireless service as a whole. Two related data figures worth remembering are average use of 25.51 GB a month for every wireless data subscriber and average realisation of Rs 8.02 for every GB of data.

The correct answer is Section 166(2). The Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs pointed to this provision of the Companies Act, 2013 to argue that the law itself recognises that a company works within society and owes responsibility to its workers, the community and the environment, and not only to its shareholders. Options A, B and D name other provisions of the same Act and are plausible distractors, since questions on corporate social responsibility often turn on the section cited. The address also traced how the framework has grown, from the early comply or explain phase through the amendments of 2019 to the Rules of 2021, which brought in the Unspent CSR Account, projects spread over several years, certification of the use of funds and impact assessment. Spending has risen from about Rs 10,000 crore in the first year of the mandate to nearly Rs 35,000 crore in 2023-24.

The correct answer is buses and inter-city railways. The survey reported that buses carry 55.8% of household overnight trips and inter-city railways another 17.7%, which together make up roughly three-quarters of such travel. Cars follow at 15.1% and two-wheelers at 8.8%, so option A describes the next tier rather than the leading pair. Option C is wrong because air travel does not figure among the leading modes for overnight household journeys in the survey’s findings. Option D is incorrect since auto-rickshaws serve short within-day trips rather than overnight ones. It is also worth noting that rail use for overnight trips is about 22.7% among urban households against about 14.0% among rural households, and that socialising, communication and religious activity drive 70.2% of all overnight household travel.