SSC CHSL Current Affairs Quiz: 29 September 2026

The correct answer is Shanghai, in China, which hosted the 48th edition of the WorldSkills Competition from 23 to 26 September 2026. The contest drew more than 1,400 young competitors from about 68 countries and regions who competed across 64 skills, and India took part with its largest contingent so far. Option A is wrong because Lyon in France hosted an earlier edition and not this one. Option C is wrong because Kazan in Russia also hosted a previous edition of the competition. Option D is wrong because New Delhi did not host the event; NIFT New Delhi only served as the training centre where the Indian competitor in Fashion Technology prepared for four months before travelling. Learn the edition number along with the host city, since the pairing is a common question.

The correct answer is 2 to 31 October 2026. Special Campaign 6.0 is undertaken across the Government of India in two stages, and this is the window for the implementation phase. Option A is wrong because those dates belong to the preparatory phase, during which offices mobilise staff, list pending references, mark out sites for cleanliness drives and plan the disposal of scrap and electronic waste. Options C and D are wrong because the campaign is neither a November nor a January exercise in this edition. The drive rests on two themes, cleanliness and the reduction of pendency, and this year it also carries a distinct emphasis on gathering, separating and disposing of electronic waste. Learn both phases together, since a question may ask for either one.

The correct answer is 125 days. The law provides a statutory guarantee of wage employment for 125 days in every financial year, and the guarantee is available to every rural household whose adult members volunteer for unskilled manual work. Option A is the figure people remember from the older rural employment law that this framework has replaced, which makes it the commonest wrong choice in the paper. Option C and option D are higher than anything the statute promises and appear in no official statement about the mission. Along with the number of days, remember that the guarantee is tied to four thematic areas: water security, core rural infrastructure, livelihood-related infrastructure and protection against extreme weather events. The framework also aims at empowerment, growth, convergence and saturation, and it works through plans prepared at the gram panchayat level and approved by the Gram Sabha.

The correct answer is tenth. India entered the competition with its largest-ever contingent, 70 competitors across 63 skills, and came away in tenth position with 6 silver medals and 20 Medals for Excellence. Options A and B are wrong because India did not finish as high as fifth or eighth in this edition, and option D is wrong because the country placed better than thirteenth. The medal count is worth remembering separately from the rank: six silvers and twenty Medals for Excellence. Of those, students of the National Institute of Fashion Technology contributed two silver medals and one Medal for Excellence, won in Digital Interactive Media Design, Retail Sales and Fashion Technology respectively. Questions frequently pair the rank with the size of the contingent.

The correct answer is the collection, segregation and disposal of e-waste. The campaign has always worked on cleanliness and the clearing of pending matters, and in this edition the government has laid special stress on handling electronic waste effectively. Options A, C and D name measures that offices may well take, but none of them is the fresh emphasis announced for this campaign. The government has also directed attention to field and outstation offices that provide services to the public, besides Ministries and Departments, their attached and subordinate offices, autonomous bodies and public sector undertakings. The Ministry of Tourism accordingly listed the identification of measures for collecting and segregating electronic waste among its preparatory activities, along with space management and record management.

The correct answer is 1 July 2026. The Act was passed in 2025 and was brought into force on that date, after which it was rolled out in every rural area of the country. The changeover from the earlier rural employment guarantee law was described as seamless, because the digital systems that support verification, monitoring and payment were already working when the new framework began. Option A is the start of the financial year and is a natural guess, but it is not the commencement date. Option C is a date associated with several government campaigns and anniversaries, not with this statute. Option D is the start of the calendar year and has no connection with the mission. Candidates should pair the commencement date with the progress cut-off used in the backgrounder, which reports figures as they stood on 24 September 2026.

The correct answer is Retail Sales, in which Saniya Joshi of NIFT Panchkula won a silver medal. Option B is wrong because Fashion Technology was the skill of Vidhi Niravkumar Suthar, a Fashion Design graduate of NIFT Gandhinagar, who received a Medal for Excellence rather than a silver. Option C is wrong because Visual Merchandising was the skill in which Anuja Ajay Vare of NIFT Bengaluru represented India, and no medal came from that category. Option D is wrong because the silver in Digital Interactive Media Design was won by Kovid Ajay Gangrade of NIFT Mumbai. Retail Sales and Digital Interactive Media Design were among the newer and emerging skill categories highlighted at Shanghai, reflecting the growing place of digital platforms and customer experience in the fashion trade.

The correct answer is 92,749 square feet, the space the Ministry of Tourism reported as freed during the previous edition of the campaign. The other options only shuffle the digits of that figure and have no basis in the Ministry's account. The same edition brought in 12.69 lakh rupees through the disposal of scrap. On the paperwork side, 4,700 physical files were weeded out and 1,100 electronic files were closed, while 413 Swachhata Campaign programmes were conducted in different parts of the country. These numbers matter because the Ministry has said it wants to build on them in the sixth edition and tighten cleanliness, record management and the clearing of pendency further. Candidates should learn the space figure along with the scrap earnings.

The correct answer is 318. The VGPP framework identifies that many types of permissible works, spread over the four thematic areas of the mission. A Viksit Gram Panchayat Plan is prepared with the participation of the Gram Sabha, which also recommends and approves it. The process starts with an inventory of assets, infrastructure and service gaps in the panchayat, including assets built under central and state schemes, and then uses GIS along with Yuktdhara and PM Gati Shakti so that spending is not duplicated. Options A, B and D are plausible-looking counts but none of them is the figure given for permissible works. Remember also that these plans are consolidated at block, district, state and national level, and that the consolidated version feeds the Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Textiles, which announced the achievement of the National Institute of Fashion Technology at the competition and which NIFT thanked along with its students, experts, trainers and officials. Option A is wrong because the education ministry looks after school and higher education in general and not this institute. Option C is wrong because, although the competition is about skills, NIFT is not placed under the skill development ministry. Option D is wrong because commerce and industry is not the parent ministry either. For the institute the contest offers exposure to global occupational standards, emerging technologies and industry expectations, and what it learns there is folded back into its own training methods, which is why the institute treats the outing as more than a medal count.

The correct answer is 413. The Ministry of Tourism held that many Swachhata Campaign programmes across the country during the fifth edition of the Special Campaign, and the other three options are simply nearby numbers with no basis. Alongside the programmes the Ministry recorded 92,749 square feet of space freed and earnings of 12.69 lakh rupees from the disposal of scrap, while 4,700 physical files were weeded out and 1,100 electronic files closed. These results form the base on which the Ministry is planning Special Campaign 6.0, whose implementation phase runs from 2 to 31 October 2026 after a preparatory phase from 15 to 30 September 2026. The preparatory meeting for the Ministry was convened on 16 September 2026.