SSC CHSL Current Affairs Quiz: 6 October 2026

The correct answer is 375. The Ministry of Rural Development has notified a Schedule of Permissible Works allowing that many works under the new rural works framework of the VB-G RAM G Act. Option A is the trap, because 266 is the number of works the earlier framework carried; the new list is 41 per cent wider than that, which is how the figure of 375 is arrived at. Option B is a round number that appears nowhere in the notification. Option D is higher than the figure actually notified and is placed there to catch a candidate who remembers only that the list grew. Keep the pair of numbers together, the old count and the new one, with the percentage rise between them, because questions are set on all three. So the right choice is 375 works.

The correct answer is Arusha, Tanzania. The Indian parliamentary delegation led by Harivansh, Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, is taking part in the assembly at Arusha, and the Parliament of the United Republic of Tanzania organised the formal inaugural ceremony there. President Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan addressed that ceremony and declared the assembly open, and the delegation also met the Speaker of the Tanzanian Parliament, Mussa Azzan Zungu, along with several ministers of the Tanzanian government. Options A, C and D name other East African capitals and are offered because candidates often remember only that the assembly was held in East Africa. Note that Arusha, not the Tanzanian capital, is the host city, which is the kind of detail a question setter likes: the country and the city both have to be carried in memory, along with the edition number of the assembly.

The correct answer is Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave. The curtain raiser for its ocean theme was hosted by the Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology at Kochi, an attached office of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, and the theme being previewed was Ocean Sciences and Maritime Technologies. The conclave was launched at the National Media Centre in New Delhi on 10 September 2026 by Dr Jitendra Singh, and the main event runs at Bharat Mandapam from 27 to 29 October 2026 across 12 thematic areas. Option A is wrong because it swaps in the name of the ministry that leads the ocean session rather than the words of the acronym. Option C is wrong because the conclave is not an engineering industry conference. Option D is wrong because it reads the ocean theme into the name itself, when the ocean session is only one of several themes. Expand the acronym exactly as it stands.

The correct answer is the Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Neelam Shami Rao. The council met for the first time at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi under her chairpersonship, and in her address she stressed that textiles and apparel are among the largest employment generators and export earners for the country and called for a whole-of-value-chain approach to production, innovation and global market access. Option A is wrong because the meeting was chaired by the Secretary and not by the minister, a distinction question setters like to test. Option C is wrong because the head of a public sector cotton agency has no role in chairing this council. Option D is wrong because the policy think tank of the government is a separate institution altogether and does not chair sectoral development councils of a ministry. Remember both the office and the name, and note that senior officers, industry associations, export promotion councils, research associations, state governments and sector experts attended.

The correct answer is Water Security, which carries 128 works and is the largest of the four pillars. It covers check dams, gully plugs, underground dykes, recharge shafts, injection wells, the revival of rivers and nallahs, the reclaiming of waterlogged land, drip irrigation, sprinklers, rooftop rainwater harvesting and even ice-stupas and artificial glaciers. Option B is wrong because Core Rural Infrastructure has 111 works, which is second. Option C is wrong because Livelihood-related Infrastructure has 98 works, although its share of the list has risen sharply. Option D is wrong because Disaster Preparedness has 38 works and is the smallest of the four, even though it is the first time such a head has been given a place of its own in the rural works list. The descending order is 128, 111, 98 and 38.

The correct answer is the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, Harivansh. He headed the delegation at the assembly and attended the inaugural ceremony along with members of Parliament Aparajita Sarangi, Anurag Singh Thakur, N. K. Premachandran and Dr Sasmit Patra, and he also led the bilateral meetings with the Speakers of the Australian House of Representatives and the Tanzanian Parliament. Option A is wrong because the Speaker of the Lok Sabha did not head this delegation, though presiding officers of either House do lead such delegations on other occasions. Option B is wrong because the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha is the Vice-President of India and was not part of this delegation. Option D is wrong because no such role is recorded for this assembly. The safest approach is to remember the office and the name together, since questions are set on either one.

The correct answer is Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, from 27 to 29 October 2026. The curtain raiser at Kochi informed its audience of the programmes the Ministry of Earth Sciences will run at the conclave on those dates, with a keynote by Dr Kilaparti Ramakrishna of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, invited talks by ocean science experts and a panel discussion on bridging knowledge, innovation and sustainable technology. Option A is wrong because Kochi hosted only the thematic curtain raiser, and the September date belongs to the launch of the conclave at the National Media Centre in New Delhi. Option C is wrong because it names a different Delhi venue and the date of the curtain raiser itself. Option D is wrong because both the city and the month are incorrect. Keep the launch, the curtain raiser and the conclave itself as three separate dates in your notes.

The correct answer is Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The Development Council for Textile Industry held its first meeting there on 6 October 2026, chaired by the Secretary of the Ministry of Textiles, with senior officers of the ministry, industry associations, export promotion councils, research associations, state governments and sector experts in attendance. Options A and D are wrong because, although both are well-known Delhi venues for large exhibitions and conferences, neither hosted this meeting. Option B is wrong because, while it is the seat of several economic ministries and therefore a plausible guess, the council did not meet there. Venue questions are common in current affairs papers because they are easy to set and easy to get wrong, so the venue should be learnt along with the date, the chair and the decision to constitute working groups and sub committees on priority themes.

The correct answer is 2025. The Ministry of Rural Development notified the Schedule of Permissible Works under the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act of that year, and the Schedule itself was put out on 6 October 2026. Options A and B name years before the Act and are wrong. Option D is the tempting one, because the notification of the Schedule came in that year; but the question asks for the year of the Act, not the year of the notification, and the two are a year apart. Candidates should fix the sequence in mind: the Act belongs to 2025, the Schedule of 375 permissible works was notified in 2026, and the whole effort is placed within the goal of a Viksit Bharat by 2047. Mixing the three years is the commonest mistake here.

The correct answer is the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan. The Parliament of Tanzania organised the formal inaugural ceremony of the assembly, she addressed the gathering and she declared the 153rd Assembly open. Option A is wrong, and is the closest trap: Mussa Azzan Zungu, the Speaker of the Tanzanian Parliament, did feature in the proceedings, but as one of the dignitaries the Indian delegation met in a bilateral meeting, not as the person who declared the assembly open. Option C is wrong because no such role is recorded in this account of the opening. Option D is wrong because Milton Dick, Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, was also a bilateral interlocutor of the Indian delegation rather than the person who opened the assembly. Keep the three names in their separate boxes.

The correct answer is the Deep Ocean Mission. IndOBIS, which stands for the Indian Ocean Biodiversity Information System, was developed to augment the biodiversity research being carried out under that mission, and its stakeholder engagement workshop ran as a parallel event to the ESTIC curtain raiser at the Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology in Kochi. The event drew scientists, researchers, students and data managers together to strengthen marine research and data-sharing networks. Option B is wrong because Himalayan studies deal with mountain ecosystems, not ocean biodiversity. Option C is wrong because supercomputing is a computing infrastructure programme with no bearing on this portal. Option D is wrong because it mixes up the familiar phrase for fisheries development with the ocean research mission that IndOBIS actually serves. Remember the portal, its full form and the mission as one set.

The correct answer is minimum support price for sugarcane, which was not on the agenda. The council took up five areas: production and productivity, covering capacity addition, modernisation and cost competitiveness across fibre, yarn, fabric, processing and apparel; research and development, including industry and research linkages, new-age fibres and technical textiles; exports and market access, covering diversification of products and markets and the quality, compliance and logistics constraints exporters face; raw material and input availability, covering cotton, man-made fibres, yarn, dyes and chemicals; and investment, skilling and sustainability, covering ease of doing business, support for small and medium enterprises, workforce skilling and circular practices. Options A, B and D are therefore all part of the agenda. Sugarcane pricing belongs to a different ministry and a different crop economy, which is why it stands out as the exception here.

The correct answer is the Viksit Gram Panchayat Plan, approved by the Gram Sabha. Every work under the new framework is to begin from the bottom up through a decentralised planning exercise, and the plan must be cleared by the Gram Sabha before a work can start. Each work is then followed on the Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack, a digital trail meant to bring Central, State and local money onto the same work and to stop the same work being taken up twice. Options A, C and D place the power of approval at the district, block and State level respectively, which runs against the village-level, bottom-up design the Schedule sets out. The point to remember is the pair: planning at the Gram Panchayat, approval by the Gram Sabha, tracking on the national stack.