Current Affairs Quiz: 6 October 2026

The correct answer is the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. eSanjeevani is the national telemedicine service of India and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare guides its working and its growth as the needs of the health system change. The ministry announced that the platform had gone past 50 crore teleconsultations, the mark being reached on 15 September 2026 with a running total of 50,00,92,730 sittings in all 36 States and Union Territories. Option A is wrong because the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is not named as the ministry running the service, although the software itself was built by C-DAC. Option C is wrong because the Ministry of Science and Technology has no role described here. Option D is wrong because the Ministry of Rural Development looks after rural employment and rural infrastructure, not telemedicine. So the answer is the health ministry.

The correct answer is 375. The Ministry of Rural Development has notified a Schedule of Permissible Works allowing that many works under the new rural works framework of the VB-G RAM G Act. Option A is the trap, because 266 is the number of works the earlier framework carried; the new list is 41 per cent wider than that, which is how the figure of 375 is arrived at. Option B is a round number that appears nowhere in the notification. Option D is higher than the figure actually notified and is placed there to catch a candidate who remembers only that the list grew. Keep the pair of numbers together, the old count and the new one, with the percentage rise between them, because questions are set on all three. So the right choice is 375 works.

The correct answer is the Secretary, Ministry of Steel. The Steel Industry Safety Council is being created as an apex body for the whole steel industry, with the mandate of strengthening safety standards, preventing accidents and building a safety culture, and the Secretary of the ministry will head it. The technical work will fall to a separate Steel Industry Safety Directorate, which will conduct safety audits, investigate serious incidents and issue safety standards suited to Indian conditions, covering iron and steel producers as well as the mines of central public sector enterprises. Option A names the political head of the ministry, who has not been given this charge. Option B names the head of a single producer, which cannot preside over a body that oversees the entire industry. Option D names the mining company that commissioned the Nagarnar pellet plant, a different item in the same review.

The correct answer is 15 September 2026. On that day the running count of teleconsultations on eSanjeevani stood at 50,00,92,730, which took the platform past the figure of 50 crore, or 500 million, across all 36 States and Union Territories. Options A and B name earlier dates in 2026 on which no such mark was recorded, so both are wrong. Option D, 6 October 2026, is the day the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare set out the achievement in its statement, which is not the same as the day the mark itself was crossed; a careless reader picks the day of the announcement instead of the day of the milestone. Candidates should keep the two dates apart, because a paper setter may ask for either one. Hence 15 September 2026 is the right choice.

The correct answer is Water Security, which carries 128 works and is the largest of the four pillars. It covers check dams, gully plugs, underground dykes, recharge shafts, injection wells, the revival of rivers and nallahs, the reclaiming of waterlogged land, drip irrigation, sprinklers, rooftop rainwater harvesting and even ice-stupas and artificial glaciers. Option B is wrong because Core Rural Infrastructure has 111 works, which is second. Option C is wrong because Livelihood-related Infrastructure has 98 works, although its share of the list has risen sharply. Option D is wrong because Disaster Preparedness has 38 works and is the smallest of the four, even though it is the first time such a head has been given a place of its own in the rural works list. The descending order is 128, 111, 98 and 38.

The correct answer is Chhattisgarh. The pellet plant of 2 MTPA capacity has been commissioned at Nagarnar in Chhattisgarh, and with it NMDC has completed an integrated project costing Rs 5,427 crore. The same project contains an iron ore processing plant at Bacheli and a slurry pipeline 135 km long with a throughput of 15 MTPA, while the pellet plant itself runs on Straight Grate Induration technology. Its purpose is to add value to the fines and slimes of Bailadila iron ore and to reduce the carriage of ore by road. Options A and B name two other states rich in minerals and steel capacity, but neither hosts this plant. Option D, West Bengal, is the state where SAIL and Bharat Coking Coal Limited agreed to jointly develop two coal blocks, so it belongs to a separate item in the same review.

The correct answer is the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). eSanjeevani is described as a made-in-India digital health solution developed by C-DAC, and its Mohali centre has given end-to-end technological development and engineering support from the very beginning. The platform grew from a hub-and-spoke telemedicine model into a national digital health platform of population scale. Option B is wrong because the National Informatics Centre is not named as the developer of this platform. Option C is wrong because the Indian Space Research Organisation works on space missions and satellites, not on a telemedicine service of this kind. Option D is wrong because the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research runs a chain of research laboratories and has no role described here. Remembering the pair, C-DAC and C-DAC Mohali, is enough for most questions on this story.

The correct answer is 2025. The Ministry of Rural Development notified the Schedule of Permissible Works under the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act of that year, and the Schedule itself was put out on 6 October 2026. Options A and B name years before the Act and are wrong. Option D is the tempting one, because the notification of the Schedule came in that year; but the question asks for the year of the Act, not the year of the notification, and the two are a year apart. Candidates should fix the sequence in mind: the Act belongs to 2025, the Schedule of 375 permissible works was notified in 2026, and the whole effort is placed within the goal of a Viksit Bharat by 2047. Mixing the three years is the commonest mistake here.

The correct answer is 101. Under the Green Steel Initiative of the Ministry of Steel, Green Steel Certificates have been issued to 101 distinct producers across the lists brought out up to September 2026. The certification spans TMT bars, hot rolled and cold rolled coils, plates, wire rods, pipes and other steel products, and a large majority of the certified products have earned a five star rating, which the ministry treats as a sign that lower emission steelmaking is spreading through the industry. The other three options are near figures of the kind a paper setter uses to check whether the exact number has been learnt. Aspirants should link this with the second green item in the same review, the Centre of Excellence for green hydrogen research that Jadavpur University is setting up with SAIL, DVC and HURL at a cost of Rs 8.18 crore.

The correct answer is 57.14 per cent. Women make up that share of all use of eSanjeevani, which shows how far telemedicine has gone in reaching people for whom a journey to a health facility means time, money and difficulty. Option B, 40.15 per cent, is the share of consultations taken by citizens of 46 years and above, so it belongs to an age group and not to women. Option A, 16.25 per cent, is the share of senior citizens of 60 years and above, who form part of that same older group. Option C is close to the right figure in look but is not the one reported, and it is the sort of near miss a paper setter puts in to catch a half-remembered number. Candidates should hold the three shares together, because questions often swap one for another.

The correct answer is the Viksit Gram Panchayat Plan, approved by the Gram Sabha. Every work under the new framework is to begin from the bottom up through a decentralised planning exercise, and the plan must be cleared by the Gram Sabha before a work can start. Each work is then followed on the Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack, a digital trail meant to bring Central, State and local money onto the same work and to stop the same work being taken up twice. Options A, C and D place the power of approval at the district, block and State level respectively, which runs against the village-level, bottom-up design the Schedule sets out. The point to remember is the pair: planning at the Gram Panchayat, approval by the Gram Sabha, tracking on the national stack.

The correct answer is Bharat Coking Coal Limited. The agreement covers the joint development and operation of two blocks in West Bengal, the Indikatta Ramnagore coal block held by SAIL and the East of Damagoria or Kalyaneshwari block held by BCCL. Both are central public sector enterprises, and the tie up is meant to deepen cooperation between them and widen domestic sources of coking coal, which Indian steel plants otherwise import in large quantity. Option A names the parent coal producer, not the partner named in this memorandum. Option C names the iron ore miner that commissioned the pellet plant at Nagarnar in the same review, so it is a distractor drawn from a neighbouring item. Option D, Damodar Valley Corporation, does appear in the review, but in the green hydrogen Centre of Excellence with Jadavpur University, SAIL and HURL, not in this coal block agreement.