SSC CHSL Current Affairs Quiz: 2 October 2026

The correct answer is 2 October to 31 October 2026. Both the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the Ministry of Steel said on the opening day that the implementation phase of the campaign would run through that month. Option A is the preparatory phase rather than the implementation phase; the steel ministry and its public sector enterprises completed their preparations and set their targets between those September dates, which is why the choice is tempting but wrong. Option C moves the campaign into the following month, which no part of either announcement supports. Option D stretches the window by two days beyond the stated closing date of 31 October. During the month the ministries work on cleanliness at campaign sites, disposal of pending matters, records and space management, process simplification and the removal of redundant items and furniture, with nodal officers reporting progress on the monitoring portal.

The correct answer is 2 October 2014, the date from which the mission counts the twelve years it now completes. Option A names Independence Day of the same year, a date often associated with the announcement of national programmes, which makes it the most attractive wrong choice. Options C and D shift the year forward and would put the anniversary out by a full twelve months. The mission began by getting cities to build toilets, raise awareness and work towards Open Defecation Free status, after which many went further and achieved ODF plus and ODF double plus grades. Its urban arm later added a quality goal through the Toilets two point zero initiative, and a user can now locate the nearest community or public facility through the toilet locator on the Swachhata application. Linking the launch date to the Gandhi Jayanti of that year is the easiest way to retain it.

The correct answer is Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Anil Mohod and Kirti. The three of them shot together in the women's recurve team event at the Asian Games and brought India the gold medal, the country's first ever in that event, and the Prime Minister congratulated all three by name. Option B is wrong because Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma are not archers in this story at all; the pair won their medal in the women's skiff, a sailing event, on the same day. Option C is wrong because Dhiraj Bommadevara is a male archer and cannot be part of a women's team; he shot in the recurve mixed team event instead. Option D is wrong because it drops Kirti and brings in Shital Verma, who again belongs to the sailing medal and not to the archery squad. The safe way to hold this item in memory is to keep the three archery names as one block, since a recurve team is made up of three archers whose scores are added together.

The correct answer is Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma. The two sailed together in the women's skiff event at the Asian Games and finished third for the bronze medal, and the Prime Minister congratulated both by name while noting that they had bettered India's previous performance in the event. Option A is wrong because Ankita Bhakat and Kirti are archers who were part of the Indian trio that won the women's recurve team gold on the same day. Option C is wrong because it replaces Harshita Tomar with Kumkum Anil Mohod, an archer who won both a team gold and a mixed team silver that day. Option D is wrong because it keeps one sailor and brings in an archer in place of the other. The day's medals are easiest to hold apart by sport, so attach the two sailing names to the skiff and the archery names to the recurve events.

The correct answer is Namami Gange. Gifts and artefacts presented to the Prime Minister are catalogued and offered for public bidding, and whatever the sale earns is placed at the service of the Namami Gange project, the programme devoted to the cleaning and conservation of the Ganga. This is stated twice in the announcement of the eighth edition, which is a sign of how central the detail is. Option B, the Swachh Bharat Mission, is a sanitation programme and is not the recipient of these proceeds. Option C is a scheme for the girl child and has no link with the auction. Option D, the Smart Cities Mission, concerns urban infrastructure and is likewise unconnected. Candidates should note the chain of facts in one line: gifts to the Prime Minister go to a public auction conducted by the Ministry of Culture, and the money raised goes to Namami Gange.

The correct answer is the effective collection, segregation and disposal of e-waste. The campaign retains its older aims of cleanliness and clearing pendency, but electronic waste is the subject singled out for this round, and a standard operating procedure for scientific disposal of such waste has been sent to every subordinate office, autonomous organisation and regional office. Option A, digitisation of land records, belongs to a different programme and is nowhere in the campaign guidelines described here. Option C, phasing out single-use plastic, is a separate environmental commitment and not this campaign's theme. Option D, energy audits of government buildings, is likewise unrelated to the announced focus. The environment ministry has already listed the items it will send for disposal, which include information technology and telecommunication equipment, consumer electronics with photovoltaic panels, laboratory instruments and medical devices.

The correct answer is Bengaluru, in Karnataka, where an old vehicle at the Majestic terminal of the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation was converted into a facility for women alone. It holds three Indian-style and two Western-style commodes, a sanitary napkin vending machine and an incinerator for menstrual hygiene, and a dedicated space where mothers can feed babies and change nappies, while its sensor lights run on solar power the facility itself generates. The three wrong options are the other cities in the same account, each with a different innovation: Bhopal runs the Freshrooms smart lounges at a market, Navi Mumbai built toilets out of recycled plastic at Koparkhairane, and Tirupati maintains large complexes for pilgrims. Matching each city to its own innovation is the surest way to answer whichever pairing the question asks for.

The correct answer is Women's Recurve Team. India had never taken the gold in this archery event at the Asian Games before, and Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Anil Mohod and Kirti ended that wait, which is why the Prime Minister described the win as historic and as a landmark for the sport. Option A, the women's compound team, is a different archery discipline shot with a compound bow and is not the event in which this particular first was recorded. Option B, the recurve mixed team, is the event in which Dhiraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Anil Mohod took a silver medal, not a gold. Option D, the women's skiff, is a sailing event in which Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma finished with the bronze medal. Candidates should note that the day brought India medals of three different colours in three different events, so the colour and the event have to be matched carefully.

The correct answer is sailing. A skiff is a light and fast sailing boat driven by the wind in its sails and handled by a crew of two, so every skiff class event belongs to sailing. Option A, rowing, is wrong because a rowing boat is moved by oars worked against the water and its events are named by the number of rowers, such as the single sculls or the coxless pair. Option B, canoeing, is wrong because a canoe is paddled with a single-bladed paddle by an athlete who kneels, and its events are named with the letter C. Option D, kayaking, is wrong for a similar reason, since a kayaker sits and uses a double-bladed paddle in events marked with the letter K. For revision, remember that the skiff belongs to sailing and that the Indian pair in it finished with the bronze medal.

The correct answer is Delhi. The edition puts up thirty mementos chosen to show the many dimensions of the capital, and the lots bear this out: a framed artwork of St. Stephen's College, a crystal memento of the Old Secretariat building, a textile artwork of the New Parliament Building, two Delhi Metro models, a painting of Saint Dada Dev from Palam village, and a pencil portrait of the Prime Minister drawn by a student from Rohini. Options A, B and D name cities that do not figure as the theme of this edition. The surest way to answer such an item is to look at the lots themselves, since the landmarks named in them, from the Legislative Assembly to the Metro, all belong to one city. Pair the edition number with the theme while revising, because both are asked together.

The correct answer is the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, usually shortened to DARPG. The campaign is being run in line with its guidelines, it has finalised the standard operating procedure for scientific disposal of electronic waste, and ministries report their progress on its Special Campaign for Disposal of Pending Matters portal, which is updated through the month. Option A, the Department of Personnel and Training, handles service matters and recruitment policy but is not the owner of this campaign. Option B, the Department of Expenditure, deals with public finance and has no stated role here. Option D, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, frames policy on electronics but the e-waste procedure for this campaign came from DARPG. Nodal officers in each ministry coordinate the work and ensure that reporting on the portal stays current.

The correct answer is 11,700 bottles and 35,200 caps. The structure built by the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation at Sector 14, Koparkhairane, uses 426 square metres of recycled plastic sheeting, which includes 5.3 metric tonnes of single-use plastic, and the builders also reused 85 repurposed computer keyboards and 284 kg of scrap metal. A fountain running on treated sewage water completes the design, and the site stands near the Nisargudyan urban garden where 8,000 to 9,000 visitors come each day. The other options carry invented counts of the sort an examiner uses to test whether a candidate has learnt the bottle figure together with the cap figure. The toilet also has separate sections for men and women, units for children and for persons with disabilities, baby care stations and sanitary pad vending machines.

The correct answer is archery. Recurve is one of the two bow types used in competitive archery, the other being the compound bow, and the recurve bow is the one used in Olympic archery, so a recurve team event is always an archery event. Option A, shooting, is wrong even though it also involves aiming at a target, because shooting events are named after rifle, pistol, trap or skeet disciplines rather than after a bow. Option C, sailing, is wrong because sailing events carry names such as the skiff or the dinghy classes, and India's sailing medal of the same day came in the women's skiff. Option D, fencing, is wrong because fencing is a combat sport contested with the foil, the epee and the sabre. For revision, link the word recurve to archery and to the Olympic-style bow, and keep the three gold medallists' names attached to it.

The correct answer is that the pair bettered India's previous performance in the event. In congratulating Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma, the Prime Minister said that with determination and consistency they had taken India onto the podium and had also improved on the earlier showing, which is the detail that gives this bronze its significance. Option A is wrong because the message does not describe the result as India's first sailing medal at any Games, and claiming a first where none is stated is a common trap. Option C is wrong because the medal won in this event was the bronze; India's gold of the same day came in the women's recurve team archery event. Option D is wrong because no record of any kind was mentioned, and sailing standings are decided by points across a series of races rather than by a recorded time. Read such congratulatory items closely for exactly which claim is being made.

The correct answer is Yogesh Kathuniya, described in the announcement as a Paralympic silver medallist whose discus is part of the collection and stands for sporting achievement and perseverance. Option A, Sumit Antil, is a Paralympic athlete of the javelin and not the owner of the discus in this auction. Option C, Devendra Jhajharia, is also a javelin thrower with a long Paralympic record, so his name is a plausible distractor, but the item named here is a discus. Option D, Neeraj Chopra, is an Olympic javelin thrower and not a Paralympic competitor at all. The detail to carry away is the pairing of the implement with the athlete: a discus, belonging to Yogesh Kathuniya, among gifts presented to the Prime Minister and now open to public bidding, with the proceeds going to the Namami Gange project.

The correct answer is 20,763. The steel ministry and its central public sector enterprises have set that number of physical files for disposal during the month, along with 9,056 electronic files, and they have planned 301 cleanliness activities at their offices and locations. Option A is the steel ministry's electronic file target rather than its physical file target, so it belongs to the same announcement but to the wrong column. Option B is the number of physical files the environment ministry identified for review, and option C is the number of electronic files that ministry identified, so both come from the other ministry's list. The steel ministry has also singled out 37 pending public grievances and wants that pendency brought down to zero, besides handling references from Members of Parliament, the Prime Minister's Office, the Cabinet and state governments.

The correct answer is Satara district of Maharashtra. The municipal council there collects 300 to 350 kg of sanitary waste a day from hospitals, clinics, households and other premises, placed red bins inside public toilets, and worked with women residents to form awareness groups that carried the message through residential areas. It allotted land for a Common Biomedical Waste Treatment Facility of 600 kg a day, which the Karad Hospital Association operates and maintains, and the council pays nothing for the treatment of the waste it collects. The central incinerator reaches temperatures of up to 1,200 degrees Celsius, gases are filtered, and emissions are watched in real time through a link to the State Pollution Control Board system. The other three options are neighbouring districts of western Maharashtra, close enough to be tempting but not the right one.