Current Affairs Quiz: 15 October 2026

The Captive Employer CXO Meet at the Rajasthan International Centre in Jaipur was held by the Ministry of Rural Development along with the Rajasthan Skill and Livelihoods Development Corporation, and its subject was the Captive Employment window of DDU-GKY 2.0.

The Digital India BHASHINI Division signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Manipur at the Manipur Chapter of the BHASHINI Rajyam Workshop, held in Imphal on 14 October 2026.

Adi Vaani has been built by IIT Delhi together with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, and at the first meeting of the Working Group on Tribal Languages the institute asked the group for help in validating datasets, settling spelling and orthography, and developing subject vocabulary for planned pilots.

The society works on the environment and development of the Himalaya and falls within his ministry's charge, which is why the other options are wrong.

Its Secretary, Smt. Nivedita Shukla Verma, chaired the third review meeting with the campaign's nodal officers, and its Additional Secretary, Shri Puneet Yadav, presented the progress made.

For women aged 15 years and above the Labour Force Participation Rate reached that level in 2025.

That is the number of rural young people trained under the scheme to date, as disclosed at the Captive Employer CXO Meet held in Jaipur on 15 October 2026.

The Digital India BHASHINI Division works under the Digital India Corporation, which comes under that ministry, and it is advancing what the government calls a Language-First Digital Public Infrastructure for the country.

The correct answer is the Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Smt. Ranjana Chopra, who chaired the hybrid workshop and closed it by asking members to share details of the languages they have worked on so that these could be folded into the platform along with IIT Delhi.

The volumes released at the meeting deal with biodiversity and its conservation practices in the Bhagirathi Eco-sensitive Zone, with the Gangotri Glaciated System, with e-PBR governance for the Indian Himalayan Region, and with the Ramsar wetlands of the Indian Himalayan Region.

The campaign has two phases: the preparatory phase, which was completed at the end of September, and the implementation phase, which began on 2 October and runs to the end of that month.

The scheme, which began in 2015, seeks to widen access to collateral-free credit up to that amount for micro and small enterprises in non-corporate and non-farm income generating activities.

The Ministry of Rural Development has reserved that share of the targets of DDU-GKY 2.0 for Captive Employers, under whom a company trains rural candidates and absorbs them into its own workforce.

The platform supports 36 Indian languages for text, and that figure should be kept apart from the other language counts given for it.

Representatives of the National Education Society for Tribal Students, which runs these schools, told the meeting that the platform could be taken into more than 525 Eklavya Model Residential Schools, which together teach over 1.7 lakh students, and that pupils, teachers and parents could also add stories and poems to…

The minister told the meeting that there has been a concerted focus on a policy framework which holds ecological security together with sustainable socio-economic growth in the Indian Himalayan Region by that year, which is the hundredth year of independence and the horizon the government uses for its long-term goals.

The Department of Defence is wrong: it set up the e-Chhawani Helpdesk for grievance redressal, which is a different initiative from the same campaign.

The scheme was framed to strengthen credit delivery to micro and small enterprises and to reach entrepreneurs who are unserved or underserved, and within it women-led units receive guarantee cover at that higher level together with a concession of 10 per cent on the guarantee fee.

Payment to a Project Implementing Agency, which may itself be an eligible captive employer, is structured this way under DDU-GKY 2.0, and each instalment is linked to a milestone settled in advance.

The government brought 29 existing labour laws together into four codes, namely the Code on Wages, the Industrial Relations Code, the Code on Social Security and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code.