SSC CHSL Current Affairs Quiz: 28 September 2026

The correct answer is the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. PM-AJAY is the umbrella scheme for the Scheduled Castes and it is carried out by that ministry, which handles the welfare of Scheduled Castes, backward classes, senior citizens and persons with disabilities. The scheme is fully funded by the Centre, began in FY 2021-22, and works through the Adarsh Gram component, grants-in-aid for state and district projects, and hostels for Scheduled Caste students. The Ministry of Rural Development is wrong: it runs rural roads, employment and housing programmes, not this scheme, although Adarsh Gram work happens in villages. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs is wrong because it looks after Scheduled Tribes, a separate group, while PM-AJAY is meant for Scheduled Castes, who make up 16.6% of the population. The Ministry of Panchayati Raj is wrong as well; it strengthens panchayats as institutions and does not implement PM-AJAY. Aspirants should also remember that the scheme merged three earlier schemes, PMAGY, SCA to SCSP and BJRCY.

The correct answer is Swachhata Mein Sahbhag; Swachh Bharat, Viksit Bharat. That is the theme of the 10th edition of Swachhata Hi Seva, which is being observed from 17 September to 2 October 2026 and was launched jointly by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation. The campaign follows a Whole of Government and a Whole of Society approach. Option B is a general slogan and not the theme announced for this edition. Option C recalls the wording used for an earlier edition of the campaign, which is exactly the sort of distractor a paper setter likes, but it is not the theme now in force. Option D borrows from Swachhata se Samriddhi, the pillar that deals with the circular economy and Waste-to-Wealth work; a pillar is not the theme, so it is wrong.

The correct answer is the 46th edition. The message issued by the Prime Minister's Office on 28 September 2026 congratulated India's chess players on their success at the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad, and it is that edition number which is the examinable fact in this item. The Chess Olympiad is numbered in one continuous sequence, so the 44th and the 45th editions, offered as options A and B, belong to earlier years and cannot be the event now in the news. Option D, the 47th, is a later edition and had not been held at the time of this message. Candidates should note that the Prime Minister praised the passion and the determination of the players as exemplary and hoped the results would encourage more youngsters to take up chess, but he did not name any individual player in the message.

The correct answer is Rs 3,075. This single payment buys the holder a year of use, or two hundred crossings of toll plazas, whichever limit is reached first, and does away with the need to keep recharging the tag. Option A is wrong because the fee announced by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is not a round two thousand rupees; the figure carries an odd seventy-five at the end, which is exactly the kind of detail a paper setter likes to test. Option C is wrong for the same reason, and it also overstates the price by a wide margin. Option D is wrong because no fee of five thousand rupees attaches to this pass at any stage; a higher figure would sit badly with the stated aim of making highway travel cheaper for private vehicle owners. The pass works at roughly one thousand one hundred and fifty fee plazas on the national network.

The correct answer is Kolkata. The Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister, together with the Chief Minister of West Bengal, formally announced the city as host of the fifth edition, which will be held at the New Town Convention Centre from 28 to 31 January 2027. The choice carries the event to eastern India for the first time, opening the platform to businesses and institutions of that region. Option A is wrong because Goa hosted the fourth edition in 2026, not the coming one. Option B is wrong because Bengaluru hosted the very first edition in 2023, when the conclave was launched. Option D is wrong because New Delhi has not been named as a host city for this event. Aspirants should keep the sequence of host cities in mind, since questions often pair the edition number with the city and the year.

The correct answer is the women's 25m pistol individual event. Esha Singh finished with the silver medal in this competition at the Asian Games 2026, and the Prime Minister congratulated her the same day, saying that she had put up a great score and had shown immense precision and composure on the range. Option A names the air pistol discipline, which is a separate event in the shooting programme and not the one in which this medal was won. Option C refers to a rifle event, and rifle and pistol are distinct branches of the sport with their own medals. Option D names a shotgun event, which is different again. For examinations the safe habit is to store the athlete, the medal colour and the exact discipline as one unit, because a question will usually change only one of the three to create a wrong option.

The correct answer is 18,093. The PIB backgrounder of 28 September 2026 states that this many villages had been declared Adarsh Grams as on 8 September 2026, a mark of how far the component has gone in lifting basic services in Scheduled Caste majority villages. The other choices are all real figures from the same scheme, which is why the question is worth care. 47,243 is the number of villages taken up under the Adarsh Gram component, benefiting more than 47.79 lakh citizens, and not the number declared. 46,944 is the count of development works completed under the component, a count of works and not of villages. 27,032 is the number of Village Development Plans prepared, the planning step that comes before the works are built. Only 18,093 answers what was asked, and a village is declared an Adarsh Gram once its residents have access to the basic services the scheme lists.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, the urban and the rural arms of the sanitation effort respectively, which launched this edition together. Option C names the wrong pair: the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances runs Special Campaign 6, the separate office-cleanliness and pendency drive held from 2 October to 31 October 2026, while the Department of Consumer Affairs is one of the many participants rather than a launching body. Option A names bodies that have no announced role in launching this campaign. Option D is also incorrect, although the Bureau of Indian Standards is taking part in the drive along with the National Test House, the NCCF, the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission and the Regional Reference Standards Laboratories.

The correct answer is chess. FIDE stands for Federation Internationale des Echecs, the French name by which the world chess federation is known, and it is the body that runs the Chess Olympiad as well as the authority that confers titles such as Grandmaster. The event in the news is the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad, at which the Indian players earned the Prime Minister's congratulations on 28 September 2026. Option A is wrong because badminton is governed by its own world federation and has no link with FIDE. Option C is wrong for the same reason, table tennis having a separate international federation of its own. Option D is wrong because hockey too is run by a different world body. Matching a sport with its governing federation is a standard question, and FIDE with chess is the pair to remember here.

The correct answer is 200. The pass carries two ceilings side by side, a calendar ceiling of one year and a usage ceiling of two hundred crossings at toll plazas, and the holder travels under whichever of the two still has room. Option A is wrong because a hundred crossings would be half the limit actually fixed, and would make the pass far less attractive to the frequent inter-city driver it is aimed at. Option B is wrong because no intermediate figure of that kind appears in the design of the scheme. Option D is wrong because the ceiling is not stretched beyond two hundred; the Ministry has kept the two conditions simple and paired. Remember alongside this the one-time fee of Rs 3,075 and the launch date of 15 August 2025, as questions often combine the price, the date and the usage ceiling.

The correct answer is 'Unlocking Innovation. Securing Energy. Shaping Tomorrow.' This is the theme announced for the fifth edition of India Energy Week, which will be held in Kolkata in the last week of January. The theme frames the programme, which will cover oil and gas, LNG, refining and petrochemicals, hydrogen, biofuels, digitalisation and artificial intelligence, along with other emerging areas of the energy sector. Options B, C and D are plausible-sounding slogans but none of them was announced for this edition. Because the conclave falls early in the calendar year, it is described as the first major global energy gathering of the year, and its stated purpose is to explore how energy can be kept secure, affordable and sustainable, with particular attention to the countries of the global South. Themes of flagship events are a standard question in current affairs papers.

The correct answer is kurash. Pinkcy Balhara secured the bronze medal in the women's 78kg class of this sport at the Asian Games, and the Prime Minister said she had displayed tremendous grit and resolve throughout the competition, wishing that she would continue to scale new heights. Options A, B and D name other combat sports that also appear at major multi-sport events, but the medal in question was won in kurash, which is a grappling sport carried on the Asian Games programme. Candidates often confuse these disciplines because the weight classes look similar, so the name of the sport should be memorised along with the weight category of 78kg and the colour of the medal. On the same day India also took a silver in shooting through Esha Singh in the women's 25m pistol individual event.

The correct answer is 40%. For the infrastructure development side of PM-AJAY, a village qualifies for a grant when its Scheduled Caste population is 40% or more and its total population is 500 or above, so both a share test and a size test have to be met. The figure of 25% is wrong; no such threshold is used by the scheme, and setting the bar that low would spread the money too thin to turn a village into an Adarsh Gram. 50% is wrong, though it is a tempting answer because the component is described as working in Scheduled Caste majority villages; the written eligibility mark is 40%, not a simple majority. 60% is wrong as well and is higher than anything the guidelines lay down. Remember alongside this that under grants-in-aid, households earning up to Rs 2.50 lakh a year get priority, and that up to 50% of the outlay goes to gap filling in selected Adarsh Gram villages.

The correct answer is 2 October, observed as Swachh Bharat Diwas. The campaign began on 17 September 2026 and closes on 2 October 2026 with Shramdaan across the country, honouring the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi and carrying forward the aim of making cleanliness a way of life. Option A names the date on which the preparatory phase of Special Campaign 6 started, not the closing day of Swachhata Hi Seva. Option B names the opening day of the campaign rather than its final day, so it inverts the fact being tested. Option D names the day on which Special Campaign 6 ends; that campaign, run by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, only begins when Swachhata Hi Seva closes, so the two dates must not be mixed up.

The correct answer is that the Chess Olympiad is a team competition in which countries enter squads. Nations send teams rather than lone players, so the standings are read country by country, and a side needs several players in form at the same time to finish near the top. This is why the Prime Minister's message of 28 September 2026 was addressed to India's chess players as a group and praised their collective passion and determination after the 46th edition. Option A describes a world championship match or knockout cycle for an individual title, which is a different competition altogether. Option C describes a club league, and the Olympiad is contested by national teams, not clubs. Option D is wrong because the Olympiad is conducted by FIDE, the international chess federation, and is not a school event run by a host city.

The correct answer is the Rajmargyatra App. The one-time payment for the annual pass is made through it, and once the money is received the pass is activated on the FASTag already linked to that vehicle, so nothing new has to be fitted to the car. Option B is wrong because mParivahan is associated with vehicle and licence documents rather than with the activation of this pass. Option C is wrong because UMANG is a common gateway to many government services and is not the route named for the annual pass. Option D is wrong because BHIM is a payments application built on the unified payments interface and is not the channel through which this pass is bought. Note also that the pass is open to all non-commercial vehicles carrying a valid FASTag, and that more than one crore of them have been issued since the launch.

The correct answer is the Federation of Indian Petroleum Industry, commonly written as FIPI, with Informa Markets serving as the conference organiser. The event itself is held under the patronage of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, which is the distinction a candidate should keep clear: the ministry gives patronage while FIPI organises. Option A is wrong because the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation is an exploration and production company and was not named as organiser. Option C is wrong because the regulatory board oversees downstream activities and has no organising role here. Option D is wrong because the industry chamber named in that option was not mentioned in connection with this edition. The fifth edition is expected to bring together more than 75,000 energy professionals and over 700 international exhibitors at Kolkata.

The correct answer is a silver in shooting and a bronze in kurash. Esha Singh took the silver in the women's 25m pistol individual event, while Pinkcy Balhara took the bronze in the women's 78kg kurash event, and both results came on the same day at the Asian Games 2026. Option A is wrong because the shooting medal was a silver and not a gold, and the kurash medal was a bronze. Option C reverses the colours of the two medals, placing the bronze in shooting and the silver in kurash. Option D wrongly upgrades the kurash medal to gold. This kind of question tests whether a candidate has kept the medal colour attached to the right sport, which is why the athlete, the sport and the colour are best revised together rather than separately.