SSC CHSL Current Affairs Quiz: 7 October 2026

The correct answer is Odisha. Balasore is a city in Odisha, and the drive test was conducted in the Odisha licensed service area, with the exercise supervised by TRAI's regional office at Hyderabad. The route ran through places such as Januganj, Mallikashpur, Remuna, Soro, Nilagiri, Jaleswar and Baliapal, all in the Balasore belt of the state. Option B, Bihar, and option D, Jharkhand, are neighbouring states in the eastern region but do not contain Balasore. Option C, West Bengal, borders Balasore district on the north, which makes it a tempting choice, yet the city and the service area tested belong to Odisha. A licensed service area is the unit in which telecom operators hold licences and in which the regulator measures and compares quality of service.

The correct answer is from 17 September to 2 October 2026. The Ministry of Textiles says it took part in the campaign over exactly these dates, with its organisations, institutions and field formations joining in, and that the drive culminated on the closing date, which is observed as Swachh Bharat Diwas and as the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Option A is wrong because the drive did not begin on Independence Day, although many government campaigns do start then. Option C is wrong because the campaign did not end in September; its closing plantation activity fell on Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti, which is in October. Option D reverses the dates, treating the closing day as the start; the release is clear that the campaign ended rather than began on that day, after which the ministry promised to sustain the momentum generated.

The correct answer is Joint Squad for Health. That is the expansion of the acronym used by the Union Health Ministry for the squads being launched at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, which bring Class-I Officers, MY Bharat Volunteers and NCC Cadets together for community work against tuberculosis. Option B is wrong because the squads are not an organisation of a sanitation character and the acronym does not refer to sanitation at all; their work is awareness, testing and treatment completion for a disease. Option C is wrong because the teams deliberately work outside hospitals, taking the message to blocks, wards and neighbourhoods rather than running a hospital outreach scheme. Option D is wrong on the same count, since hygiene is not the subject and the word Jan does not appear in the name, although public participation, called Jan Bhagidari, is the spirit behind the effort. Only option A gives the official expansion.

The correct answer is Shri Sudhansh Pant, Secretary of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, who holds the post of Chairman of the Board as well and therefore swore in the two new Members at the Ministry's office. Option A is wrong because the oath was administered by the Secretary in his capacity as Chairman of the Board rather than by the Union Minister heading the Ministry. Option C is wrong because the National Commission for Backward Classes is a separate constitutional body with its own mandate and has no role in constituting this Board's Governing Body. Option D is wrong because the Cabinet Secretary, as the senior-most civil servant of the Union Government, does not administer oaths to members of a welfare board of this kind. Candidates should remember the dual role: the Secretary of the Ministry is also the Chairman of the Board.

The correct answer is Reliance Jio, whose average download speed on the tested route was 239.24 Mbps on its 5G and 4G networks, the highest of the four operators. Airtel in option A came next at 67.10 Mbps, Vi in option D recorded 24.65 Mbps, and BSNL in option B was lowest at 8.18 Mbps because its service on the route was measured on a 3G network. On uploads the order differed, with Airtel at 16.61 Mbps marginally ahead of Reliance Jio at 16.28 Mbps, followed by Vi and BSNL. Reliance Jio also had the fewest poor-signal samples and the fewest dropped calls on the route. Remember that such readings describe only the area and the hours of the drive test.

The correct answer is Secretary (Textiles), Smt Neelam Shami Rao. The release records that the final plantation activity took place at NIFT Delhi on Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti and was led by her, with senior officials of the ministry joining, under the Shramdaan call Ek Din, Ek Ghanta, Ek Saath. Option A is wrong because no minister is named as leading this activity; the account describes officials of the ministry and of NIFT Delhi taking part. Option B is wrong because the institute's head is not credited with leading it, even though NIFT Delhi officials and stakeholders are mentioned as participants. Option D is wrong because the Development Commissioner for Handlooms does not appear in the release at all, although weavers at Shahpur in Rampur and in the Bijnour cluster did join the campaign.

The correct answer is 55 districts in 11 States. The first phase of the squads has been planned on that scale, with the work concentrated at the block, ward and community level so that information about tuberculosis reaches people where they live and work rather than staying inside health facilities. Options A, B and D all misstate the spread of the opening phase, and candidates should note that examiners often pair the district count with the State count to test whether both have been memorised. Remember also that the phase is described as the first of its kind for these squads, so the figure is expected to grow later; the number asked about here is the launch phase, announced along with the venue Bharat Mandapam and the launch date of 8 October 2026. Learning the pair together is the safest way to answer such questions.

The correct answer is de-notified, nomadic and semi-nomadic communities. The Board's very name is the Development and Welfare Board for De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Communities, and the oath taken by its Members includes a pledge to do right by every person belonging to these groups in line with the Board's Terms of Reference. Option A is wrong because the welfare of Scheduled Tribes, including forest dwellers, is handled by a separate ministry and separate institutions. Option C is wrong because welfare measures for transgender persons, though also under the social justice ministry, are not the mandate of this particular board. Option D is wrong because the concerns of safai karamcharis are addressed through a different national commission. These communities are among the most mobile groups in the country, which is precisely why a dedicated board exists to carry welfare schemes to them.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Communications, under which the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India functions and which issued the release on the Balasore drive test. TRAI's job is to regulate telecom services and tariffs and to protect the interests of subscribers, and drive tests are one of the ways it verifies the quality of service that operators actually deliver. Option B, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, handles electronics manufacturing and information technology policy, not telecom regulation. Option C, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, deals with broadcasting, films and the press. Option D, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, looks after trade and industrial policy. Candidates should also link the regulator with the quality parameters it publishes, such as call drop rate and Mean Opinion Score.

The correct answer is Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam. Environmental sustainability formed an important part of the drive, and tree plantation was carried out under this initiative, with the concluding plantation at NIFT Delhi on Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti. Option B is wrong because Kabaad se Kala, along with Kabaad se Jugaad, belongs to the waste-to-art and recycling activities taken up on various campuses, together with plastic recycling and reuse drives. Option C is wrong because Swachh Paathshala - Yuva for Swachhata covered educational and awareness work meant to draw youth and students into the cleanliness movement. Option D is wrong because the Safai Mitra Suraksha evam Samman Shivir was the component devoted to the safety, health, dignity and welfare of Safai Mitras and to recognising their contribution.

The correct answer is Class-I Officers, MY Bharat Volunteers and NCC Cadets. This combination is the heart of the design, because it joins administrative leadership with the youth reach of the MY Bharat platform of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and the cadet network of the Ministry of Defence. Option A names front-line health functionaries who are already central to the wider tuberculosis programme but are not the three groups that constitute these particular squads. Option C is wrong because, although elected village representatives have played a large part in the campaign and were credited with the Panchayat-level results, the squads are not built from Panchayat members, National Service Scheme volunteers or Scouts. Option D mixes an administrative post with voluntary bodies that are not named as constituents of the teams. The three-way composition is exactly what makes the scheme a whole-of-government effort.

The correct answer is three years from the date of joining, or until further orders, whichever is earlier. That is the term on which the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment appointed the two Members to the Governing Body of the Board. Option A understates the term and option C overstates it; neither matches the order of appointment. Option D introduces an age-based condition, which applies to several judicial and commission posts in India but is not the basis on which these Members hold office. Candidates should also note the dates on which the two took charge, with one assuming office on the seventeenth and the other on the twenty-fifth of September, while the oath itself was administered later, in the following month, at the Ministry's office in the presence of the Secretary who chairs the Board.

The correct answer is Swachh Bharat Diwas. The campaign came to an end on 2 October, which the release identifies both as Swachh Bharat Diwas and as the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi; the final plantation activity at NIFT Delhi was held on that occasion. Option A is wrong because World Environment Day falls in June and does not figure in this account. Option C is wrong because National Handloom Day, though closely tied to the textiles sector, is observed in August and is not the closing day described here. Option D is wrong because World Water Day falls in March and has nothing to do with the dates of this drive. For aspirants, the pairing worth remembering is the campaign window of 17 September to 2 October 2026 and the day it ended on.