SSC CGL Current Affairs Quiz: 12 October 2026

The correct answer is 18.205 MT. The Ministry of Coal placed the stock at domestic coal-based power plants at 18.205 MT on 10 October 2026, which is why the ministry could say that the level has not fallen below 18 MT at any time since 29 September 2026, when the reading was 18.932 MT. Option A is wrong because a figure of 16.418 MT would sit well under the 18 MT mark that the ministry said has been held without a break, and no such dip was reported during the period. Option C is wrong because 19.932 MT is not the figure for 10 October; the 29 September reading was 18.932 MT, and stock drifted down from there rather than up. Option D is wrong because a level of 21.640 MT would mean a large build-up, whereas the first ten days of October saw a modest net fall of about 0.56 MT.

The correct answer is Peptris Technologies Private Limited, Bengaluru. The Technology Development Board, which works under the Department of Science and Technology, signed its agreement with this Bengaluru company in Karnataka and committed Rs 86 crore from the Research Development and Innovation Fund towards the VIGOR programme, whose full cost is Rs 172 crore. The support is being routed as Optionally Convertible Debt. Option A, Biocon Limited, is not the firm named in the agreement, even though it too is based in Bengaluru, so the city alone cannot settle the question. Option C, Bharat Biotech International of Hyderabad, has no part in this arrangement; the announcement names neither that company nor the city of Hyderabad. Option D, Serum Institute of India of Pune, is similarly outside this agreement. Only Peptris Technologies is described as holding the artificial-intelligence platform on which the four candidates PEPR111, PEPRX101, PEPR202 and PEPR112 were discovered, and only that company will carry them from Technology Readiness Level four to Technology Readiness Level six.

The correct answer is the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, abbreviated as IGNFA, which is conducting the nineteenth Phase-III course from the twelfth of October to the sixth of November in 2026 for sixty-eight officers drawn from eighteen cadres. Option A names the academy that trains civil servants of the administrative service and is not the body running this forestry course. Option C, the Forest Research Institute, is a research body and not the training academy named for this programme. Option D, the Wildlife Institute of India, works on wildlife research and training of a different kind, and while wildlife management is one of the themes of the visits planned under this course, the organiser is still the academy. Rajendra Prasad Khajuria is its Director and was present when the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change interacted with the participants in New Delhi.

The correct answer is 27. Athletes of the three Services returned from the Asian Games in Japan with 27 medals, broken up as 6 gold, 11 silver and 10 bronze, which is the best the defence forces have ever managed at the event. Option A, 21, is the number of gold medals won by the whole Indian contingent, not the Services total. Option C, 37, is the number of bronze medals in India's overall tally, so it too belongs to the national figure and not to the Services. Option D, 85, is India's complete medal haul at these Games, of which the Services share worked out to 32 per cent. A candidate who keeps the two layers apart, the national count and the Services count, will not confuse these numbers. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh felicitated the medal winners in New Delhi on 12 October 2026.

The correct answer is the Food Corporation of India. The MoU signed alongside the launch of Bharat Rice gives the Army a formal framework to use identified FCI warehouses, labour resources and material-handling equipment when operations require them, and it holds for five years with the option of extension by mutual consent. Option A, NAFED, does appear in the story, but its role is to supply the rice itself during the financial year 2026-27, not to lend warehousing. Option C, the Border Roads Organisation, was mentioned only as an example of dual use, since roads and bridges it builds are also used by local residents. Option D, the Central Warehousing Corporation, does not figure in the arrangement at all. The Defence Minister described the FCI agreement as a force multiplier for operational preparedness.

The correct answer is 13 October 2021, which is why the plan completes five years in October 2026. The idea was to put data held by different ministries, states and union territories onto one Geographic Information System platform so that road, rail, port, airport, waterway and utility networks could be planned together instead of in isolation. Option B is wrong because no launch on that date is recorded for this plan. Option C, 13 October 2022, names the right day of the year but the wrong year, and 2022 is instead the year Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya was established, so candidates often mix the two. Option D falls before the plan existed. Five years on, the platform covers 58 Central Ministries and Departments and all 36 States and Union Territories.

The correct answer is 60,000 crore rupees. PM-SETU, which stands for Pradhan Mantri Skilling and Employability Transformation through Upgraded ITIs, is a flagship scheme with that total outlay, and it seeks to change vocational education through deep industry participation and institutional reform. Option A, 440 crore rupees, is only the approved investment for the Surat and Visakhapatnam clusters taken together. Option B, 3,446 crore rupees, is the total approved proposed investment across the first 14 Strategic Investment Plans cleared under the scheme, so it is a subset and not the outlay. Option D confuses the money with the target, since 1,000 is the number of Government ITIs the scheme plans to upgrade, alongside strengthening five National Skill Training Institutes.

The correct answer is Exercise Tarang Shakti-26. The seminar was held on 9 October 2026 at the Air Force Auditorium, Subroto Park, New Delhi, while this multinational flying exercise was under way, so the participating teams moved from flying sorties to a conceptual discussion on doctrine. The other three options name air exercises that are familiar in general studies but were not the setting for this seminar. The point of holding the seminar alongside the exercise was to carry fresh operational experience into debate: the theme was the central role of air power in the evolving battlespace, and representatives of partner air forces from every continent attended along with senior officers, academics, industry and the media. The organisers were the Centre for Aerospace Power and Strategic Studies and the Indian Air Force.

The correct answer is the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010, read with the Clinical Establishments (Central Government) Rules, 2012. Together they form the regulatory framework for clinical establishments, and the Rules require that the rate charged for each type of service and each facility be displayed at a conspicuous place, in the local language as well as in English. Option B governs medical education and the registration of practitioners, not the display of hospital charges. Option C deals with consumer rights and redressal in general and is not the instrument the Health Secretary's letter relies on. Option D regulates the manufacture, sale and quality of drugs and cosmetics. Only the 2010 Act, with its Rules, carries the display obligation that the Centre has asked states to enforce.

The correct answer is Gaya in Bihar, which secured first position among the best-performing districts when the scheme completed its first year. Option A, Nagaur in Rajasthan, is wrong only in rank: it was placed second, so a careless reader picks it. Option B, Umaria in Madhya Pradesh, came third, and the order Gaya, Nagaur, Umaria is exactly the sequence a paper setter likes to test. Option D, Banka, did feature at the event, but for a different reason: it presented the Lilawaran natural farming land revival model as an innovation, and it was not among the three top-ranked districts. Along with the top three, another 18 districts were honoured for exemplary work on the six objectives of the scheme, which range from raising productivity to better governance and service delivery. District performance under the scheme is measured on a dashboard built around 121 indicators, with rankings refreshed every month.

The correct answer is 5.54 per cent, the provisional year-on-year rate for September 2026 measured against September 2025 at the all-India combined level. Option A, 4.83 per cent, was the rate for the previous month, August 2026, so it is the classic trap for anyone who recalls the direction of the move but not the latest number. Option C, 6.08 per cent, is the rural rate for September 2026 rather than the combined rate; prices in villages rose faster than in cities, where the rate was 4.88 per cent, and the combined figure sits between the two. Option D, 7.74 per cent, is food inflation measured by the Consumer Food Price Index, a separate series that ran above the headline number this month. Candidates should also note that the index is compiled on the revised base year of 2024 equal to 100.

The correct answer is Shared Stories, Shared Futures, the theme under which the three-day festival opened at the National School of Drama in New Delhi and runs from 12 to 14 October 2026. Option D is the trap worth understanding: those words are the theme of India's BRICS Presidency for 2026, not of the theatre festival, and the festival sits under that presidency as one of its cultural engagements. Options B and C are invented slogans of the kind that sound plausible for a cultural event but appear nowhere in the announcement. The festival brings together theatre practitioners, scholars, students and cultural representatives from nine BRICS member and partner countries, and the Ministry of Culture is the organiser with the National School of Drama as the nodal agency. The festival follows the BRICS Summit held in New Delhi.

The correct answer is Ahmedabad in Gujarat, where the games were staged at the Veer Savarkar Sports Complex in the Naranpura area on 12 October 2026. Option A is the strongest distractor because New Delhi hosted the BRICS Summit and several other events of India's presidency year, so candidates assume every BRICS engagement took place there. Options C and D name cities with well-known sporting facilities, but neither hosted this event. The day-long programme brought together country delegations, athletes, practitioners, technical officials and partner institutions from 10 BRICS nations, and Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Dr Mansukh Mandaviya declared the games open in the presence of Gujarat's Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi. Cultural presentations ran alongside the sport, and the participating teams were felicitated when the programme closed.

The correct answer is Himachal Pradesh, where the centre is coming up at Keylong, the administrative centre of the Lahaul and Spiti area. The Union Health Minister performed the Bhumi Pujan and laid the foundation stone there, and a former Chief Minister of the state as well as the Member of Parliament from Mandi spoke at the ceremony. Options A, C and D are all Himalayan states whose people the centre's findings are expected to help, along with Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir, which is exactly why they make effective distractors: the benefit is spread across the Himalayan belt even though the institution itself sits in one state. The centre builds on a field station that the Indian Council of Medical Research set up at Keylong nearly a decade ago, and it will now become a permanent, year-round institution with modern laboratories and specialist staff.

The correct answer is 19. The Empowered Group of Secretaries approved the cohort at its meeting on 8 October 2026, and the nineteen are made up of two kinds of institution: 14 Alternative Investment Funds and 5 Focused Research Organisations. That break-up explains why options A and C are the traps, since each names one half of the total and a candidate who remembers the components but not the sum will pick one of them. Option D is simply not the figure announced. The total commitment of the fund to this first cohort is 7,131 crore rupees out of the one lakh crore rupee scheme. These managers will pass the money to Eligible Technology Enterprises working at Technology Readiness Level 4 and above, and are expected to mobilise an equal amount of private capital alongside it.

The correct answer is 469 rakes. Loading for the power sector averaged 469 rakes a day over the first ten days of October 2026, and it is this heavier movement that lifted daily coal supply and slowed the drawdown of stock. Option A is wrong because 426 rakes a day was the average for September 2026, the month against which October’s improvement of about 10 per cent is being measured. Options B and D are wrong because 447 and 482 rakes are the lowest and highest daily loading figures recorded during October, that is, the two ends of the range within which the day-to-day numbers moved, and neither is the average for the period. A question of this kind turns on separating an average from the band around it, so the figures for the floor, the ceiling and the previous month all have to be kept apart.

The correct answer is Rs 172 crore. The project titled VIGOR: Advancing AI-Discovered Molecules from Bench to Clinic has been costed at that figure in full, and the Technology Development Board is carrying Rs 86 crore of it from the Research Development and Innovation Fund, which works out to exactly half the outlay. A candidate who remembers only the board's share will be tempted by a smaller total, which is why options A and B are offered: neither Rs 108 crore nor Rs 145 crore matches the cost stated for the project, and neither is double the board's contribution. Option D, Rs 250 crore, overstates the project and would leave the board's share well under half. The arithmetic relationship is worth fixing in memory, since examiners often ask for the sponsor's share and the project cost in the same question. The support reaches the company as Optionally Convertible Debt, and the work is spread over three years.

The correct answer is 68 officers from 18 cadres. The course has that many participants, and the officers have come from eighteen different State cadres, which is why the ministry described the group as carrying a mix of field and policy experience ranging from wildlife conservation governance to climate-resilient forestry, habitat restoration and the working of environmental policy. Option A reduces both figures and matches nothing reported. Option C reverses the digits of the participant count and raises the cadre figure, a trap for a candidate who recalls the shape of the number but not its order. Option D is higher on both counts. It is also worth remembering the service bracket, since the course is designed for officers who have completed between seven and nine years of service, and the schedule, which runs from the twelfth of October to the sixth of November in 2026.

The correct answer is Naib Subedar Neeru Dhanda. She finished the Games with two gold and one silver, and her win in the individual women's trap event made her the first Indian woman to take gold in that shooting event at the Asian Games. Option B, Havildar Sawan Barwal, is a male marathon runner whose silver came in a national record time and ended a long gap in that event, so he could not have competed in a women's event. Option C, Naib Subedar Gulveer Singh, won two silver and one bronze and is the first Indian man in track and field to take three individual medals at one edition of the Games. Option D, Naib Subedar Sarvesh Kushare, won his medal in the men's high jump. Only option A matches both the event and the first.

The correct answer is NAFED, the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited, which will supply the rice during the financial year 2026-27 after it is milled to prescribed defence specifications and cleared by quality-control checks. Option A, the Food Corporation of India, is the partner for the separate logistics MoU on warehousing and material handling, so it has a different role in the same announcement. Option C, an Army Purchase Organisation, is not named in the arrangement. Option D, state civil supplies corporations, also do not feature; in fact the change is that the rice moves directly to Army Supply Depots instead of depots drawing it from nearby facilities. The initiative is led by the Directorate General of Supplies and Transport and followed nearly 18 months of coordination.

The correct answer is 58. The master plan brings 58 Central Ministries and Departments into a single planning framework, so that infrastructure proposals can be assessed across sectors rather than ministry by ministry. Option A, 36, is the number of States and Union Territories covered by the plan, and the pair of figures is easy to swap in an exam. Option B belongs to the Unified Logistics Interface Platform, which had connected 46 government systems as of July 2026 through its application programming interfaces. Option D, 230, is the count of approved datasets made available on the public PM GatiShakti platform for site suitability analysis, connectivity mapping, alignment planning and compliance checks. Only option C answers the question asked, which is about ministries and departments.

The correct answer is 51 per cent. Dedicated Special Purpose Vehicles are being set up to manage the upgradation and operations of the two ITI clusters, and in them the industry partner AM/NS India holds a majority stake of 51 per cent. Option A, 24.5 per cent, is the equity that the Government of India holds, and the same share is held by the respective state government, so together the two governments account for 49 per cent. Option B is therefore the combined government share rather than the company's. Option D is not part of this structure at all. The majority stake is what gives the arrangement its industry-led character, with the company bringing manufacturing expertise while NAMTECH supports curriculum and faculty work.

The correct answer is 2001. CAPSS was set up in that year as an autonomous research and analysis body working on national security, nuclear and aerospace questions, which is why the year 2026 marks its Silver Jubilee. A silver jubilee falls twenty-five years after founding, so the arithmetic itself rules out the other three options. Option A would make the body thirty-five years old in 2026, option C would make it fifteen, and option D only five, none of which fits a silver jubilee. Its Director General, Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor (Retd.), delivered the welcome address at the seminar and spoke about the role of air power in contemporary conflicts and the part CAPSS plays in developing thinking on it.

The correct answer is the local language as well as English. The Rules require a clinical establishment to put up its rates at a conspicuous place in both, so that patients and the people accompanying them can read the charges without having to ask. Option A would leave out those who do not read English, which defeats the purpose of the provision. Option B is wrong because the requirement is for the local language, which need not be Hindi and will differ from state to state. Option D is not the test laid down: the Rules do not leave the choice of a single language to the establishment. The purpose behind the bilingual requirement is to let patients estimate the likely cost of treatment, plan their spending and avoid disputes over billing.

The correct answer is 100. The scheme was designed for one hundred districts selected on three measures: low agricultural productivity, low cropping intensity and limited disbursement of agricultural credit. Because the districts are chosen on need rather than on population or area, the number is fixed, and the stated ambition is to make every one of these hundred districts truly rich in grain and in prosperity. Options A, C and D are plausible-looking round numbers of the kind used in other central programmes, but none of them is the figure for this scheme. What makes the coverage distinctive is the method rather than the count: each district writes its own action plan around its soil, rainfall, cropping pattern, water availability and infrastructure, a District Dhan-Dhaanya Samiti coordinates the work, and 36 central schemes of 11 ministries and departments are converged with state schemes in that single plan.