RRB Group D Current Affairs Quiz: 29 September 2026

The correct answer is Meerut City. The two newly sanctioned MEMU services both begin or end at Meerut City: one pair links it with Khurja and runs as Train No. 64573/64574, and the other links it with Saharanpur and runs as Train No. 64580/64579. Both trains will have commercial stoppages at every station on their route, so the benefit is spread across the whole section rather than the end points alone. Ghaziabad is wrong because no new service in this approval starts or terminates there, even though it lies in the same region of western Uttar Pradesh. Moradabad is wrong for the same reason: it is not one of the three stations named in the approval. Bareilly is wrong as well, since neither of the two pairs touches it; the stations named are Meerut City, Khurja and Saharanpur only.

The correct answer is 50 cities across 24 states. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has identified 50 model cities under PRAGATI-50 to demonstrate a higher benchmark of Swachhata, and the Union Minister stated at the launch that these cities are spread across 24 states. The list was framed to include major cities, places of cultural importance, leading tourism destinations and economic centres. Option A understates both figures. Option C uses the startup target of the Mission rather than the number of cities, which makes it a plausible trap. Option D doubles the number of cities while keeping the correct number of states, so it too is wrong. The initiative takes its name from the number of cities chosen, which is a useful memory aid.

The correct answer is Rs 1,635 crore. The Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation dedicated the Barapullah Elevated Road Phase-3, built at that cost, to the people of Delhi. Option C is the most attractive distractor because it is the value of the whole package of projects inaugurated and begun on the occasion, which stands at more than that amount and includes the elevated road as well as the two works whose foundation stones were laid. Candidates must therefore separate the single project cost from the total package. Options A and D name figures that were not mentioned in connection with either the road or the package. A safe way to remember the pair is that the elevated road accounts for the larger part of the total, with the remainder going to the flyover and the underpass.

The correct answer is 64573. In the pair sanctioned for the Khurja section, Train No. 64573 runs from Khurja to Meerut City, leaving Khurja at 13:15 hrs and arriving at Meerut City at 17:20 hrs, a journey of 4 hours 5 minutes. Option A is wrong because 64579 is the Meerut City to Saharanpur service, which leaves Meerut City at 17:45 hrs and reaches Saharanpur at 20:40 hrs. Option B is wrong because 64580 is the Saharanpur to Meerut City service in the morning, leaving at 05:50 hrs and arriving at 08:10 hrs. Option D is wrong because no such number appears in the approval; the four numbers announced are 64573, 64574, 64580 and 64579. Note also that the return leg of the Khurja service is 64574, which leaves Meerut City at 11:25 hrs and reaches Khurja at 16:00 hrs.

The correct answer is Durgapur. The Ministry set up the Swachh Bharat Test Bed and Innovation Centre at Durgapur in collaboration with CSIR-CMERI, and it is meant to serve as a national facility for research, product development, testing, validation, certification and capacity building in sanitation technologies. Option B, Kanpur, is a plausible distractor because the third cohort of Swachhata startups was launched with the Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre at IIT Kanpur, but that is a separate activity from the Test Bed. Option C, Indore, is widely associated with urban cleanliness rankings but was not named as the Test Bed site. Option D, Pune, was not mentioned at all. The centre was created because the Mission has consistently placed research and innovation at the heart of its Swachhata work. Hence option A is correct.

The correct answer is East Delhi and South Delhi. The Home Minister stated that the newly dedicated phase of the Barapullah corridor would give signal-free connectivity between the eastern and the southern parts of the capital, so that commuting becomes smoother, motorists get relief from traffic jams and travel time is saved. A signal-free corridor achieves this by carrying traffic over intersections on an elevated deck instead of stopping it at traffic lights. Options A, C and D pair other parts of the city; while Delhi has several corridors linking those areas, none of them is the connection described for this phase. The point to note for examinations is the specific pair of directions named, since a question may change just one of the two.

The correct answer is Saharanpur to Meerut City. That leg, run by Train No. 64580, covers the distance in 2 hours 20 minutes, departing Saharanpur at 05:50 hrs and arriving at Meerut City at 08:10 hrs, making it the quickest of the four legs approved. Option B is wrong because the Meerut City to Khurja leg, Train No. 64574, is in fact the slowest at 4 hours 35 minutes, from 11:25 hrs to 16:00 hrs. Option C is wrong because the Khurja to Meerut City leg, Train No. 64573, takes 4 hours 5 minutes. Option D is wrong because the Meerut City to Saharanpur leg, Train No. 64579, takes 2 hours 55 minutes, which is quick but still longer than the morning run from Saharanpur. A MEMU rake is chosen for such sections because it accelerates quickly between closely spaced halts.

The correct answer is IIT Kanpur. The Ministry launched the third cohort of startups working on sanitation and waste management in collaboration with the Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre at IIT Kanpur. With 13 startups joining this cohort, the Mission completed its national target of onboarding and incubating 75 startups across the waste value chain. The Minister of State also used the occasion to note that India has emerged as the world's third-largest startup ecosystem. Options A, C and D name other leading technical institutions of the country, each of which runs its own incubation facilities, which makes them plausible; however, none of them was named as the partner for this cohort. The cohort is focused on pioneering solutions in sanitation and waste management. So option B is the answer.

The correct answer is the Modi Mill-Savitri Cinema Flyover and the Loni Underpass. Along with dedicating the completed elevated road, the Union Home Minister laid the foundation stones of these two works, which together with the road make up the package of projects worth more than Rs 1,941 crore. A flyover lifts traffic over a junction and an underpass takes it beneath, and both are built to remove traffic signals at busy crossings. Option A names a metro corridor and a ring road, which are different categories of project and were not part of this announcement. Options C and D, pedestrian skywalks and a bus rapid transit corridor, are also urban transport works but neither was named. Hence option B is correct.

The correct answer is in a Union Ministry office. As part of Swachhata Hi Seva 2026 the Union Minister inaugurated a Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Centre at Sankalp Bhawan in New Delhi, and it has been described as the first such centre in a Union Ministry office. The purpose is to promote sustainable consumption, reuse, resource recovery and circularity within government workplaces, so that the offices framing the policy also practise it. Option A, a railway station, and options C and D, a municipal corporation building and a central university campus, are all places where such collection points are plausible, and RRR centres have been popularised widely, but the distinction claimed here relates specifically to a Union Ministry office. Hence option B is correct.