SSC CHSL Current Affairs Quiz: 5 October 2026

The correct answer is 5,000 crore rupees. The Financial Fraud Risk Indicator, built partly from what citizens report on Sanchar Saathi, provides risk-based intelligence on mobile numbers that may be linked to financial fraud, and the ministry credits it with preventing suspected losses of more than 5,000 crore rupees. The intelligence is shared through the Digital Intelligence Platform with banks, payment service providers, telecom operators and law enforcement agencies, who build it into their transaction monitoring so that a suspicious payment can be stopped before the money leaves an account. Options A, B and D are figures that do not appear in the statement. Candidates should keep the two abbreviations apart: the Financial Fraud Risk Indicator is the risk signal itself, while the Digital Intelligence Platform is the channel that carries it to more than 1,600 connected stakeholders.

The correct answer is 110. At the Safai Mitra Suraksha Evam Samman Shivir held on 29 September 2026, the Secretary of the department felicitated 110 Safai Mitras in recognition of their contribution to cleanliness and hygiene at the department, an exercise meant to underline the dignity of sanitation work. Options A, B and D are round numbers that look plausible, and round figures are a standard trap in questions of this kind, so the exact count is worth fixing in memory. The same day also saw a health check-up camp on the campus for employees, outsourced personnel and sanitary workers, as well as a rangoli competition under the Kabaad Se Kala theme with drawing and poster events. Candidates should link the number of Safai Mitras honoured to the name of the shivir and to the date, since any one of the three may be asked.

The correct answer is 62 thousand kilometres. At the National Chintan Shivir the Union Rural Development Minister said the fourth phase of the scheme carries a target of 62 thousand kilometres of new rural roads, of which 20 thousand kilometres have already been sanctioned. Option A understates the target and no such figure was mentioned. Option C is a trap because it resembles the figure for roads built so far under the scheme, which stands at about 8.50 lakh kilometres rather than being the target of this phase. Option D inflates the target well beyond anything announced. Aspirants should keep three separate numbers in mind for this scheme: the length already built, the target of the current phase and the portion of that target already sanctioned, because examiners routinely swap one for another in the options.

The correct answer is the Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda, Jamnagar. The clinical study was carried out by the Department of Kaumarbhritya, the paediatrics wing of this institute, which is an Institution of National Importance under the Ministry of Ayush, and the findings were published in the AYU Journal. Option A names another leading Ayurveda institute under the same ministry, which makes it the most tempting wrong choice, but the work reported here was not done there. Option C is also an Ayurveda institute of standing, yet it did not conduct this trial. Option D is a research council that works on yoga and naturopathy rather than the institute credited with this study. Aspirants should link the institute with its city, its status as an Institution of National Importance, the Ministry of Ayush and the name of its director, since any of these can be asked.

The correct answer is 897. The 17th All India Pension Adalat listed 897 long-pending grievances of family pensioners and super-senior pensioners for consideration, and of these 756 were settled on the day of the sitting, giving a redressal rate of 84.2 per cent. Option B names 756, which is the number of cases actually resolved rather than the number taken up, and is the commonest trap in this question because both figures come from the same sentence. Options A and D are not figures connected with this Adalat at all. Candidates should hold the pair together: 897 listed, 756 closed, 84.2 per cent redressed, at a sitting held in New Delhi on 5 October 2026 and chaired by Dr Jitendra Singh. The remaining cases were left open for follow-up in the days after the Adalat.

The correct answer is the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, known as DARPG, which has been institutionalising the Special Campaign since 2021 and sets the targets that other ministries and departments work to. Dr Jitendra Singh reviewed the progress of Special Campaign 6 at the DARPG office in Sardar Patel Bhawan, New Delhi, on 5 October 2026, along with the Secretary and senior officers of the department. The campaign's thrust areas, from scientific disposal of electronic waste to the clearing of pending references and better record management, are monitored on a single digital platform. Options B, C and D are all departments in the same ministry or in finance, but none of them is the nodal department for this campaign.

The correct answer is the purchase of mechanised sanitation equipment for self-employment. The case released by the ministry shows how it works: a two-member group project under the scheme financed a tractor-mounted Open Nallah Cleaner at a total cost of Rs 16,99,952, with a loan of Rs 10,24,964 and a capital subsidy of Rs 6,74,988. The beneficiary, who had picked waste for about twelve years in Guntur, moved to an organised livelihood with the machine and saw her monthly income rise from about Rs 8,000 to around Rs 18,000. Option C belongs to a different sanitation programme altogether, while options A and D describe kinds of support not covered by this scheme. The structure to remember is a loan plus a capital subsidy for equipment ownership.

The correct answer is Adequate Housing for All. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs observed World Habitat Day on this theme, with the stated focus on strengthening the urban housing system through innovation, policy reform, technology and sustainable financing. Option A resembles the slogan of the housing mission itself, which works towards the goal of Housing for All, but it is not the theme of the day. Options C and D are the kind of phrases used for other urban and disaster related observances and have no connection with this one. On the same occasion the ministry gave away the PMAY-U Awards to the best performing states, union territories and urban local bodies, released publications of bodies such as HUDCO and the National Housing Bank, and launched a mobile application and revamped websites of the scheme. Only option B names the theme correctly.

The correct answer is Chakshu. It is the reporting facility on Sanchar Saathi through which a citizen can flag suspicious calls, SMS or WhatsApp messages, including fake KYC and bill-payment alerts, people impersonating government, police or bank officials, and fraudulent investment, job or loan offers. Chakshu has received 12.80 lakh inputs, which led to action in 59.82 lakh cases and the disconnection of more than 50 lakh mobile connections. Option B, Trusted Contact Details, is a different service that lets a user verify the genuine customer care numbers, email addresses and website links of banks and financial institutions. Option C, the Digital Intelligence Platform, is not a citizen-facing service at all but the secure channel that carries fraud intelligence to banks and the police. Option D, Keep Yourself Aware, is the awareness section on prevailing fraud trends such as fake loan apps and fake traffic challans.

The correct answer is 17 September 2026. The campaign started on that date across the department, its autonomous institutions and the offices of the Survey of India located throughout the country, and officials took the Swachhata Pledge the very next day, administered by the Secretary. Option C, 1 October 2026, is the date of the shramdaan held at Vigyan Sadan under the nationwide call Ek Din, Ek Ghanta, Ek Saath, and option D, 2 October 2026, is Gandhi Jayanti, when the Secretary led a cleanliness drive in the areas around Technology Bhawan. Both are real dates within the campaign but neither is its start, which makes them the strongest distractors here. Option A has no connection with the campaign calendar. The safest approach is to learn the sequence of dates in order rather than any single one of them.

The correct answer is Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. The two-day National Chintan Shivir on the rural roads scheme was held at Bharat Mandapam, was addressed by the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and of Rural Development, and was attended by secretaries and chief engineers from every state and union territory. Option A, Vigyan Bhawan, does host government meetings, but this camp was not held there. Option C, Yashobhoomi in Dwarka, is a convention centre known for exhibitions and conferences, which makes it an attractive distractor, yet it was not the venue. Option D is also incorrect, since the release names Bharat Mandapam as the venue. It helps to remember the venue along with the two-day duration of the camp and the name of the minister who addressed it.

The correct answer is about 70 per cent. Children who took the Ayurvedic formulation and also practised the four selected asanas showed roughly 70 per cent improvement in the frequency of bedwetting over the eight weeks of the study. Option B, about 38 per cent, is the improvement recorded in the group that received the medicine alone, so it belongs to the comparison group rather than the combined one. Option A, about 31 per cent, is the improvement in memory among children on medicine alone and is placed here to test whether a candidate separates the parameters. Option C, about 61 per cent, is the memory improvement in the combined group, again a different measure. The study also reported about 66 per cent less irritability and about 71 per cent less hyperactivity in the combined group, so each percentage needs to be tied to its own parameter.

The correct answer is the Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare, known as DoPPW, which sits in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions. The Adalat is part of the standing machinery this department has built so that a pensioner's complaint can be heard directly, with the ministry or department concerned present in the room. The 17th edition was held at the T. N. Chaturvedi Memorial Hall of the Indian Institute of Public Administration in New Delhi, and cases were placed before the minister by the Joint Secretary (Pension). Option B handles administrative reforms and public grievances generally, not pension cases. Option C deals with service matters of government staff. Option D is concerned with public expenditure. None of the three convenes the Pension Adalat.

The correct answer is 3,90,000 square feet. In the previous round of the campaign the Department of Sports, working with the Sports Authority of India, the Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education, the National Sports University, the National Anti-Doping Agency and the National Dope Testing Laboratory, ran cleanliness drives at 50 identified sites covering field offices and headquarters. The space freed up was reclaimed for use, and many of the newly available areas were turned into useful rooms. Scrap disposal during the same round brought in revenue of Rs 4,07,55,976, which the department presented as proof that cleanliness drives can also raise money. Options A, B and D are not figures from this account. Remember the trio together: 50 sites, 3,90,000 square feet, and the scrap revenue figure.

The correct answer is fellowship, house rent allowance and contingency. These are the three components named in the beneficiary account of a scholar from Faridabad in Haryana whose assistance began in September 2019 and came to about Rs 18 lakh, funding her doctorate. She afterwards joined a project at the CSIR-National Physical Laboratory in New Delhi at Rs 43,000 a month for a year. The National Fellowship for Scheduled Caste exists to pay for doctoral research by Scheduled Caste scholars, which is why its heads cover living costs rather than school-level expenses. Options B, C and D list components that belong to other kinds of scholarship or are simply invented, so a candidate who remembers only the word fellowship could be led astray by them.

The correct answer is World Habitat Day. It was announced at the function that the PMAY-U Awards are being institutionalised, so that the contribution of states, union territories, urban local bodies and partner agencies under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Urban is recognised every year on World Habitat Day. The purpose stated was to encourage healthy competition among states, spread good practices and push better delivery of affordable housing. Option A names another urban observance but is not the day chosen for these awards. Option C is not an observance connected with this scheme, and option D is a separate day linked with administrative reform rather than housing. The awards cover state level, special recognition and urban local body categories, which is why the day on which they are given is a fact worth holding. Only option B is correct.

The correct answer is 60.96 lakh. The Sanchar Saathi dashboard shows that 60.96 lakh lost or stolen handsets have been blocked across the networks of all telecom operators, that 37.85 lakh of them were traced, and that more than 14 lakh have actually been recovered and returned to their owners. Option A, 37.85 lakh, is the number traced rather than blocked, which makes it the sharpest distractor in the set, so the three stages of blocked, traced and recovered must be learnt in that order. Options B and D are invented figures. The process works like this: once a handset is reported and blocked it cannot be used anywhere in India, and any attempt to use it generates traceability information that is passed to the police, with recovery following from coordination between the department, telecom service providers and state police authorities.

The correct answer is the Securities and Exchange Board of India. Under the Safai Mitra Suraksha initiative, the department arranged a financial awareness session through the securities regulator on 23 September 2026, and it was open to housekeeping staff as well as to the scientists, officers and officials of the department, the aim being to improve financial awareness and the general well-being of the workforce. Option C, the Bureau of Indian Standards, does appear in the campaign but in a different role: the special lecture on Standardization and Research in Ayurveda was delivered by Dr. Raghavendra Naik, a scientist in the Department of Ayush at that bureau. Options A and D are other financial sector regulators and are offered because they sound equally plausible for a session on financial awareness, but neither conducted this one.

The correct answer is 72 days. The Minister said a limit of 72 days has been fixed between sanction and the start of construction, that some states are breaching it, and that a full account would be prepared for those states. He also asked for the tender process to be kept to a timetable and for obstacles such as repeated cancellation of tenders to be sorted out in advance through pre-tender planning, since delay raises the cost of construction material. Options A and B are shorter than the prescribed limit and do not appear in the release. Option D, ninety days, sounds plausible because a three-month window is common in government processes, but the limit set here is tighter. Remember alongside this that maintenance of a road for five years after construction rests with the agency that built it.

The correct answer is Medhya Rasayana Churna. Children in both groups received this formulation, made of Brahmi, Shankhpushpi, Yashtimadhu, which is liquorice, and Guduchi, administered twice a day with milk. The second group additionally practised Utkatasana, Ardha-Shalabhasana, Bhujangasana and Shavasana in the morning and evening. Option A, Chyawanprash, is a well known Ayurvedic preparation but was not the one tested here. Option C, Triphala Churna, is used for digestive complaints and does not figure in this trial. Option D is a distractor built around a single herb rather than the compound formulation named in the study. The ingredients matter for the explanation offered by the researchers, since Brahmi and Shankhpushpi have traditionally been used for their calming effect and their role in supporting mental well-being in children.

The correct answer is Bringing Ease in the Life of Family Pensioners. This e-booklet was released at the sitting along with a set of flyers carrying success stories from the 16th Pension Adalat, and both publications were meant to show what direct hearings have achieved for pensioners and their families. The other three titles are plausible-sounding but were not released on this occasion. The Digital Life Certificate did come up in the minister's remarks, where he asked for wider awareness campaigns so that elderly pensioners can submit their certificates through digital identity and face-recognition based verification instead of travelling to an office, but no handbook of that name was issued. Pair the booklet's title with the edition number, the date of 5 October 2026 and the venue in New Delhi.

The correct answer is Waste to Wealth. The minister said the recycling of electronic waste and other scrap contributes to this wider government idea and to the principles of a circular economy, in which resources are recovered and put back to productive use instead of accumulating as waste. He made the point while reviewing Special Campaign 6 at the DARPG office and directing officials to speed up the shift from physical records to e-files, stressing efficiency, transparency and ease of access. The campaign, he said, goes beyond cleanliness and has become a wider effort to strengthen governance and administrative efficiency in government offices. The other three options are real slogans and missions of Indian public policy, but they were not the phrase used in this review.

The correct answer is the NSFDC Electric Auto-Rickshaw Subsidy Scheme, 2024. A resident of Junardev in Chhindwara district, Madhya Pradesh, was selected under it and received financial assistance of Rs 1,85,000, which let him acquire an auto-rickshaw and earn a living where he had no steady income before. The scheme is run by the National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation, which offers credit-linked subsidy support for self-employment. Option A funds mechanised sanitation equipment and option B pays for doctoral research, both named in the same set of beneficiary accounts but for different purposes. Option D is a separate national credit scheme not involved here. Candidates should tie each amount to its scheme, since all three cases were issued on the same day.

The correct answer is Tamil Nadu and SIPCOT, which was named the public agency with the highest number of houses completed and in use under affordable rental housing complexes, at 18,720 beds. In the same category the private agency award went to SPR India Private Limited, at 11,154 beds. Options A, C and D pair other states with their industrial development corporations, which is a plausible shape for the answer but not the one recognised here. Tamil Nadu also took the award for the best shelter fund practice, so the state appears twice in the list. Among the other special recognitions, Gujarat won for the best town planning scheme procedure and for the most reforms achieved under PMAY-U 2.0, Chhattisgarh for mandatory land reservation for weaker sections in private colonies, and HDFC Bank as the best lending institution. Only option B is correct.

The correct answer is 21. The Sanchar Saathi mobile application is offered in English, Hindi and 21 regional languages, so that a user anywhere in the country can reach the same services in a language of their own, and its total downloads have crossed 2.8 crore. Options A, B and D are plausible but incorrect, and candidates often confuse this count with the number of languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, which is a separate matter entirely. The multilingual app sits alongside the portal, which carries public dashboards and awareness material on telecom safety and fraud prevention. Remember the pairing of the app languages with the download figure, and keep both apart from the portal statistics such as the 30 crore visits recorded since the launch in May 2023.