Railway Current Affairs Quiz: 24 October 2026

The 8th All India Conference of Government Railway Police Chiefs, convened by the Railway Protection Force, concluded in New Delhi on 23 October 2026.

In October 2026 four male Great Indian Bustards were set free inside Desert National Park, close to Sam village in the Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare announced that the creation of 11 crore Farmer IDs, each a unique digital identity for a cultivator, had been completed by the night of 23 October, five months before the deadline of 31 March 2027.

The VB-G RAM G Act provides a statutory guarantee of 125 days of wage employment in every financial year to each rural household whose adult members volunteer for unskilled manual work.

The correct answer is Piyush Goyal, the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, who completed a two-day official visit to Germany with a series of engagements in Berlin on 23 October 2026.

The correct answer is Sonali Mishra, Director General of the Railway Protection Force, who presided over the high-level conference and closed it by stressing the need for intelligence-led policing to strengthen railway security.

Its annual progress report for 2016-17 recorded that the population of the Great Indian Bustard had fallen by three quarters over the thirty years before that report, a decline driven by the loss of its grassland habitat and by pressures created by people, and made harder to reverse by the…

That was the date fixed for the completion of the Farmer ID registry, and the work was closed by the night of 23 October, which is five months earlier.

The Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) took its place when the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 came into force on 1 July 2026, and the changeover was described as seamless and free of disruption, with the supporting digital systems live from the start.

Mr Levin Holle holds that position at the German Federal Chancellery, where the bilateral meeting took place, and the discussion covered economic cooperation and the strengthening of economic and investment ties between India and Germany.

Its Pink Patrol initiative, with the tagline Eyes in the Sky, SHAKTI on the Ground, is a women-led model that combines drone-assisted surveillance with rapid-response teams working under the SHAKTI framework.

National CAMPA cleared this amount in December 2024 for a five-year Conservation Action Plan that covers both the Great Indian Bustard and the Lesser Florican.

The Farmer ID is issued under this mission, which the Union Cabinet approved on 2 September 2024 and which is building a Digital Public Infrastructure, or DPI, for the farm sector.

The Viksit Gram Panchayat Plan framework identifies 318 types of permissible works, spread across the four thematic areas of water security, core rural infrastructure, livelihood-related infrastructure and the mitigation of extreme weather events.

Mr Holger Peters is the Chief Executive Officer of Skoda Auto and at the same time the Chief Financial Officer of Volkswagen AG, and he met the Commerce Minister in Berlin.

Only three female Great Indian Bustards were left in the wild in Kutch and no male survived there to fertilise an egg, so a viable egg from the conservation-breeding centre at Sam in Rajasthan was moved 770 km to Naliya in a portable incubator, a journey lasting more than 19…

That amount was allotted to the States and Union Territories as the interim allocation for the financial year, and out of it a mother sanction of Rs 25,880 crore was issued as the first instalment.