SBI Current Affairs Quiz: 2 November 2026

The Union Cabinet approved the Mission in January 2023 with this outlay, and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is implementing it with the aim of making India a global hub for green hydrogen and its derivatives.

The Telecom Consumers Complaint Redressal (Fourth Amendment) Regulations, 2026, cut the time for filing an appeal after a complaint is closed, the regulator reasoning that a consumer normally prefers to appeal at once while a longer window only adds to compliance work.

The Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare has set this target for the fifth edition of its nationwide drive, and the mega camp held with the State Bank of India at the NDCC Convention Centre in New Delhi was part of it.

The standard was notified by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in August 2023, is measured on a well-to-gate basis and is assessed as a twelve-month average, and it made India one of the first few countries to define green hydrogen formally.

The amendment replaces the earlier arrangement of sixteen hours with support at every hour of every day, and allows a service provider to man the centre through human representatives, automated systems, artificial intelligence agents or other customer-centric technology, or a mix of these.

The department organised the mega camp in collaboration with this bank at the NDCC Convention Centre in New Delhi as part of the fifth nationwide campaign.

Green hydrogen and green ammonia plants commissioned by the end of December 2030 are exempt from inter-state transmission system charges for a quarter of a century, which lowers the cost of moving renewable power across state boundaries to such plants.

Every service provider must establish this committee to oversee and periodically review how its grievance machinery works.

The Secretary of the department, Nivedita Shukla Verma, said that technological advances, and face authentication in particular, have transformed the way a life certificate is submitted, because the pensioner can now create the certificate independently on a smartphone without going to a bank or any other office.

The four Hydrogen Valley Innovation Clusters awarded under the Mission are Jodhpur, Odisha, Pune and Kerala. These clusters bring production, consumption and infrastructure together in one area, which improves project viability and allows economies of scale, since hydrogen is difficult to transport.