SSC CHSL Current Affairs Quiz: 3 October 2026

The correct answer is Resilience in an Age of Flux. The conclave was organised on that theme by the Institute of Economic Growth, and the Vice-President used it to argue that economic resilience cannot be separated from social resilience, that inclusion is the foundation of resilience, and that no citizen, enterprise or region should be left behind. Option A names a governance slogan, not this theme. Option C points to a climate and energy framing that the inaugural address did not adopt as the title of the event. Option D is a global-commons style phrase used in other forums. Only the second option matches the theme under which policymakers, economists, academics and business leaders met in New Delhi on 3 October 2026, so it is the answer.

The correct answer is Majigam in Navsari district, Gujarat. Union Minister of Jal Shakti Shri C. R. Patil attended the Special Gram Sabha there, in Chikhli Block, on Swachh Bharat Diwas. He honoured sanitation workers, viewed the Waste to Art display and planted a sapling under the Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam drive. The other three options name villages where Special Gram Sabhas were also held, but they were attended by officers of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, not by the Union Minister. Option A, Sayli in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, was visited by a Deputy Secretary, who also saw a sewage treatment plant. Option D, Pindarkom in Ranchi district of Jharkhand, was covered by another Deputy Secretary, and option C, Ratipur in Palwal district of Haryana, saw an inspection of the waste segregation shed. Aspirants should link the Minister's name with the village, the block, the district and the state.

The correct answer is ₹60,000 crore. The scheme is funded three ways: the Centre contributes ₹30,000 crore, the State governments ₹20,000 crore and industry ₹10,000 crore, which together make up the full outlay. This money pays for the Hub-and-Spoke upgradation of government Industrial Training Institutes under Component I and the strengthening of the five National Skill Training Institutes under Component II. Options A, B and D name figures that do not match any part of the scheme's financing pattern; none of ₹40,000 crore, ₹50,000 crore or ₹75,000 crore corresponds to the Centre's share, the States' share, industry's share or the total. Note also the separate figure of ₹3,446 crore, which is the investment covered by the 14 Strategic Investment Plans approved in the first year, not the outlay of the scheme itself.

The correct answer is 2 October 2026. The Department of Agricultural Research and Education and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research started the campaign on that day, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, which is also observed as Swachh Bharat Diwas. Officials of ICAR headquarters marked the start with a cleanliness drive at the National Agricultural Science Complex at Pusa in New Delhi, and institutes across the country took up shramdaan, plogging, plantation and waste management work the same day. Option A, Independence Day, option C, Republic Day, and option D are not connected with the launch of this campaign in the announcement. The choice of the date matters for the exam: the Shramik Samman at the coastal research institute in Goa and the Swachh Bharat Diwas programme at the agricultural research institute in New Delhi were held on the same day.

The correct answer is the Institute of Economic Growth, established in 1952. The Vice-President recalled that the institute was set up that year under Professor V. K. R. V. Rao and has stayed close to India’s development journey ever since; it hosts this conclave. Option D names the right institution but the wrong year of establishment, which is the usual trap in such questions. Options B and C name other well-known economic research bodies that did not organise this event, so they are wrong whatever founding year is attached to them. Students should remember the pairing of the institute with its founder and with the conclave, and also that its Board of Trustees is headed by N. K. Singh while Dr. Michael Debabrata Patra chairs its Board of Governors.

The correct answer is an annual digital self-assessment carried out by a Gram Panchayat. The framework lets a panchayat judge its own sanitation work each year, and it was taken up in the Special Gram Sabhas, above all in ODF Plus (Model) Gram Panchayats; the Joint Secretary and Mission Director of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) made a presentation on it at Majigam. Option A is wrong because it is not an award given from the centre to a district; it is an exercise the panchayat performs on itself. Option C is wrong on two counts, since the framework belongs to the rural arm of the mission and is not a survey of urban toilets. Option D is wrong because no vehicle subsidy was announced; what the sabhas reviewed were the results of Swachhata Hi Seva 2026, the four-way segregation of waste at source required by the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026, and the listing of bulk waste generators.

The correct answer is 200. Component I covers a thousand government Industrial Training Institutes, split into 200 Hub ITIs and 800 Spoke ITIs, so option D names the number of spokes rather than hubs. On average four spokes are attached to each hub, which is why the hub count is a fifth of the total; the arrangement lets spoke institutes share the hub's modern laboratories, digital content, incubation facilities and placement services. Options A and C do not match the design: a hundred hubs would leave nine spokes to a hub, and four hundred would leave fewer than two, neither of which fits the model described. The same figure returns in the rollout decision, where the National Steering Committee approved implementation across all 200 identified ITI clusters, one cluster for each hub.

The correct answer is Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Rural Development, who honoured the Safai Mitras of the ICAR-Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute with shawls, bouquets and gifts for keeping the campus clean through the year. The programme was called Shramik Samman and formed the highlight of the day at the Goa institute. Option D, Shri Shripad Yesso Naik, is a Union Minister of State who attended the same event but did not lead the felicitation, which makes him the most tempting distractor. Option B holds the Jal Shakti portfolio and option C the environment portfolio, and neither is named in this programme. Goa Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant appreciated the institute's participation under Swachhata Hi Seva 2026, and Rajya Sabha member Shri Sadanand Shet Tanawade was also present.

The correct answer is more than 590 million. The inaugural address used this figure to show how far financial inclusion has spread, crediting the JAM trinity, Direct Benefit Transfer and the Goods and Services Tax with widening access, improving transparency and formalising the economy. In the same passage the Vice-President said GST registrations climbed from about 6.65 million in 2017 to 16.5 million in May 2026. The other three options are smaller counts that do not match the figure cited for August 2026, so each is wrong. Remember the comparison the speech drew: resilience is built not only in boardrooms and financial markets but also when a village woman holds an account, draws her benefits directly and turns a Self-Help Group into an enterprise.

The correct answer is Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam, the plantation drive under which Shri C. R. Patil and the Joint Secretary and Mission Director of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) planted trees at Majigam. The same drive was followed at the sabhas in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Jharkhand and Haryana, where plantation accompanied the honouring of sanitation workers and the Swachhata pledge. Option A, Van Mahotsav, is the long-standing tree-planting week of July and was not the drive named here. Option C, Harit Bharat Abhiyan, is a plausible-sounding title but no such drive figures in the day's programme. Option D, Nagar Van Yojana, concerns urban forests and city green spaces, which is not what the Gram Sabhas in villages were doing. Remember the drive along with the Waste to Art exhibit and the Swachhata pledge taken by everyone present.

The correct answer is 51%. PM-SETU puts industry in charge of cluster governance: the anchor industry partner takes a majority holding of fifty-one per cent in the special purpose vehicle, while the Union government and the State government hold the rest in equal parts. Option A names the share of the Centre and of the State separately, each of which is 24.5%, and together they come to just under half. Options B and C do not appear in the shareholding pattern at all. A company that wishes to become an anchor partner must first submit a Strategic Investment Plan, and once the vehicle is formed it leads cluster development and operations, proposing changes to curriculum, training delivery, infrastructure and industry exposure that suit the industries of that region.

The correct answer is Dr Mangi Lal Jat, who holds both posts, Secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education and Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Speaking at the Swachh Bharat Diwas programme of ICAR-IARI in New Delhi, he appreciated the institute's cleanliness drive and asked that Swachhata be treated as a year-round, team-based activity rather than a one-day event, linking a clean workplace with the well-being of employees, the advance of science and the health of people. He also stressed second-line leadership, the mentoring of future science leaders, the holistic development of students and accountability for the work entrusted to each person. Options A and C are not named anywhere in this announcement and work only as distractors, while option D is the Chief Minister of Goa, who appreciated the work of the coastal research institute at the Shramik Samman programme.

The correct answer is more than 34.6 million. The Vice-President placed that figure beside two others to show how women’s economic participation has grown: around 9.2 million Self-Help Groups, covering more than 100 million rural women, and more than 250 million Indians lifted out of extreme poverty. He argued that inclusion must go past enrolment in the formal economy and must let people create value, earn income and set up enterprises, describing the change as a move from women’s empowerment to women-led development. The other three options alter the count and so do not match what the address stated, which makes each of them wrong. Candidates should store this figure with the Self-Help Group numbers, since questions often pair them.