RRB NTPC 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 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 Rs 661.50 crore. The Ministry of Defence signed the contract with BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited on 6 October 2026 in New Delhi, and the value of the order for BrahMos Fire Control Systems and launchers meant for ships of the Indian Navy was fixed at Rs 661.50 crore. The signing took place in the presence of Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh, and the purchase was routed through the Buy (Indian-IDDM) category with a floor of 68 per cent indigenous content. Option A is wrong because no figure of that size is attached to this order. Option C is wrong because it inflates the amount past a thousand crore, which does not match the order placed. Option D is wrong because it simply rearranges the digits of the real figure and understates the contract by a wide margin. Candidates should carry the exact amount, including the paise-level 50 lakh, since question setters often offer a rounded Rs 661 crore as a trap alongside the precise value.

The correct answer is Surya. FSS-1, the first of the Fleet Support Ships designed and built by Hindustan Shipyard Limited, was named Surya and launched by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at the Visakhapatnam yard on 6 October 2026. Traditional launch honours were performed by Laila Swaminathan, President of the Navy Wives Wellness Association, and the vessel entered the waters of the Bay of Bengal. Option A is wrong, though it is a tempting distractor: Jala Usha was the first ship built in independent India and was launched at Visakhapatnam in 1948, a point the minister recalled in his speech, but it is not the new support ship. Options C and D are wrong because no vessel of those names features in this launch; they are plausible-sounding naval names offered as traps. Candidates should tie the name Surya to FSS-1 and keep Jala Usha separately in memory as the 1948 milestone.

The correct answer is Arusha, Tanzania. The Indian parliamentary delegation led by Harivansh, Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, is taking part in the assembly at Arusha, and the Parliament of the United Republic of Tanzania organised the formal inaugural ceremony there. President Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan addressed that ceremony and declared the assembly open, and the delegation also met the Speaker of the Tanzanian Parliament, Mussa Azzan Zungu, along with several ministers of the Tanzanian government. Options A, C and D name other East African capitals and are offered because candidates often remember only that the assembly was held in East Africa. Note that Arusha, not the Tanzanian capital, is the host city, which is the kind of detail a question setter likes: the country and the city both have to be carried in memory, along with the edition number of the assembly.

The correct answer is Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave. The curtain raiser for its ocean theme was hosted by the Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology at Kochi, an attached office of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, and the theme being previewed was Ocean Sciences and Maritime Technologies. The conclave was launched at the National Media Centre in New Delhi on 10 September 2026 by Dr Jitendra Singh, and the main event runs at Bharat Mandapam from 27 to 29 October 2026 across 12 thematic areas. Option A is wrong because it swaps in the name of the ministry that leads the ocean session rather than the words of the acronym. Option C is wrong because the conclave is not an engineering industry conference. Option D is wrong because it reads the ocean theme into the name itself, when the ocean session is only one of several themes. Expand the acronym exactly as it stands.

The correct answer is the Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Neelam Shami Rao. The council met for the first time at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi under her chairpersonship, and in her address she stressed that textiles and apparel are among the largest employment generators and export earners for the country and called for a whole-of-value-chain approach to production, innovation and global market access. Option A is wrong because the meeting was chaired by the Secretary and not by the minister, a distinction question setters like to test. Option C is wrong because the head of a public sector cotton agency has no role in chairing this council. Option D is wrong because the policy think tank of the government is a separate institution altogether and does not chair sectoral development councils of a ministry. Remember both the office and the name, and note that senior officers, industry associations, export promotion councils, research associations, state governments and sector experts attended.

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 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 Buy (Indian-IDDM). The order for BrahMos Fire Control Systems and launchers was placed with BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited under this category, which is reserved for equipment that is indigenously designed, developed and manufactured. The contract carries a minimum of 68 per cent indigenous content and draws Indian industry, including micro, small and medium enterprises, into the supply chain, with employment generated over a period of three years. Option A is wrong because a global purchase would allow foreign vendors, which is the opposite of what this order does. Option B is wrong because that route involves acquiring an initial lot and then producing the rest under licence, which is not how this contract was framed. Option D is wrong because it describes a design-and-development route for industry-funded prototypes, not a procurement order of this kind. The category is the fact most often asked, so pair it in memory with the indigenous content figure.

The correct answer is up to 45,000 DWT. Slipway-4 at Hindustan Shipyard Limited was extended and strengthened so that the yard could take on larger hulls, and the Defence Minister inaugurated the upgraded slipway on the same day he launched Surya and laid the keel of FSS-5. Alongside it he opened a 300-tonne Goliath Crane spanning Slipways 3 and 4, designed and manufactured by L and T Geostructure with Konecranes under Make in India, fitted with programmable controls, variable frequency drives, tandem lifting, remote diagnostics and condition monitoring. Options A and B are wrong because they understate the new limit, and a yard restricted to those sizes could not undertake the larger and more complex programmes the upgrade is meant to enable. Option D is wrong because it overstates the capacity. Pair the slipway figure with the crane figure, since both are standard one-mark facts from this event.

The correct answer is the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, Harivansh. He headed the delegation at the assembly and attended the inaugural ceremony along with members of Parliament Aparajita Sarangi, Anurag Singh Thakur, N. K. Premachandran and Dr Sasmit Patra, and he also led the bilateral meetings with the Speakers of the Australian House of Representatives and the Tanzanian Parliament. Option A is wrong because the Speaker of the Lok Sabha did not head this delegation, though presiding officers of either House do lead such delegations on other occasions. Option B is wrong because the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha is the Vice-President of India and was not part of this delegation. Option D is wrong because no such role is recorded for this assembly. The safest approach is to remember the office and the name together, since questions are set on either one.

The correct answer is Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, from 27 to 29 October 2026. The curtain raiser at Kochi informed its audience of the programmes the Ministry of Earth Sciences will run at the conclave on those dates, with a keynote by Dr Kilaparti Ramakrishna of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, invited talks by ocean science experts and a panel discussion on bridging knowledge, innovation and sustainable technology. Option A is wrong because Kochi hosted only the thematic curtain raiser, and the September date belongs to the launch of the conclave at the National Media Centre in New Delhi. Option C is wrong because it names a different Delhi venue and the date of the curtain raiser itself. Option D is wrong because both the city and the month are incorrect. Keep the launch, the curtain raiser and the conclave itself as three separate dates in your notes.

The correct answer is Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The Development Council for Textile Industry held its first meeting there on 6 October 2026, chaired by the Secretary of the Ministry of Textiles, with senior officers of the ministry, industry associations, export promotion councils, research associations, state governments and sector experts in attendance. Options A and D are wrong because, although both are well-known Delhi venues for large exhibitions and conferences, neither hosted this meeting. Option B is wrong because, while it is the seat of several economic ministries and therefore a plausible guess, the council did not meet there. Venue questions are common in current affairs papers because they are easy to set and easy to get wrong, so the venue should be learnt along with the date, the chair and the decision to constitute working groups and sub committees on priority themes.

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 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 surface-to-surface missile system. The BrahMos, fitted on board various frontline warships, is the Indian Navy’s primary surface-to-surface missile system for maritime strike operations. It travels at supersonic speed, engages targets at extended ranges with pinpoint accuracy, and can be directed at targets on land as well as at sea. Option A is wrong because a surface-to-air system is meant to shoot down aircraft and incoming missiles, a role filled by other weapons on a warship. Option C is wrong because anti-submarine rockets and torpedoes are a separate class of weapon aimed at underwater targets, and BrahMos is not described in that role. Option D is wrong because an air-to-air missile is fired from one aircraft at another, which has nothing to do with a ship-mounted launcher. The fire control systems and launchers bought for Rs 661.50 crore are precisely the equipment that lets a warship employ this strike missile.

The correct answer is Visakhapatnam. Hindustan Shipyard Limited stands in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, and it was there that Surya was launched into the Bay of Bengal, the keel of FSS-5 was laid and the upgraded Slipway-4 and the 300-tonne Goliath Crane were inaugurated. The Defence Minister argued that the city, which already hosts the Eastern Naval Command, the Naval Dockyard, the shipyard and a major port, should be developed into a large maritime industrial hub, and he recalled that independent India’s first ship, Jala Usha, was launched there in 1948. Option A is wrong because Kochi hosts a different public shipyard. Option B is wrong because Mumbai’s naval shipbuilding is carried out by another yard altogether. Option D is wrong because Kolkata’s defence shipbuilding is handled by a separate company. Candidates should also note that HSL came under the Ministry of Defence and earned Miniratna Category-I status in 2025.

The correct answer is the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan. The Parliament of Tanzania organised the formal inaugural ceremony of the assembly, she addressed the gathering and she declared the 153rd Assembly open. Option A is wrong, and is the closest trap: Mussa Azzan Zungu, the Speaker of the Tanzanian Parliament, did feature in the proceedings, but as one of the dignitaries the Indian delegation met in a bilateral meeting, not as the person who declared the assembly open. Option C is wrong because no such role is recorded in this account of the opening. Option D is wrong because Milton Dick, Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, was also a bilateral interlocutor of the Indian delegation rather than the person who opened the assembly. Keep the three names in their separate boxes.

The correct answer is the Deep Ocean Mission. IndOBIS, which stands for the Indian Ocean Biodiversity Information System, was developed to augment the biodiversity research being carried out under that mission, and its stakeholder engagement workshop ran as a parallel event to the ESTIC curtain raiser at the Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology in Kochi. The event drew scientists, researchers, students and data managers together to strengthen marine research and data-sharing networks. Option B is wrong because Himalayan studies deal with mountain ecosystems, not ocean biodiversity. Option C is wrong because supercomputing is a computing infrastructure programme with no bearing on this portal. Option D is wrong because it mixes up the familiar phrase for fisheries development with the ocean research mission that IndOBIS actually serves. Remember the portal, its full form and the mission as one set.

The correct answer is minimum support price for sugarcane, which was not on the agenda. The council took up five areas: production and productivity, covering capacity addition, modernisation and cost competitiveness across fibre, yarn, fabric, processing and apparel; research and development, including industry and research linkages, new-age fibres and technical textiles; exports and market access, covering diversification of products and markets and the quality, compliance and logistics constraints exporters face; raw material and input availability, covering cotton, man-made fibres, yarn, dyes and chemicals; and investment, skilling and sustainability, covering ease of doing business, support for small and medium enterprises, workforce skilling and circular practices. Options A, B and D are therefore all part of the agenda. Sugarcane pricing belongs to a different ministry and a different crop economy, which is why it stands out as the exception here.

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 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.