SSC CHSL Current Affairs Quiz: 13 October 2026

The correct answer is Rs 1.87 lakh crore. Sales of khadi and village industry products in 2025-26 reached this level, the highest ever recorded for the sector, with the count taken up to May 2026. Compared with 2013-14 the sales figure is 501 per cent higher, so the year marks a record rather than an ordinary increase. Option B of Rs 1.25 lakh crore confuses sales with production, because output stood at Rs 1,25,296 crore after growing 380 per cent. Option C of Rs 2.04 lakh crore borrows the employment number, since jobs in the sector rose 56 per cent to 2.04 crore people, which is a count of workers and not money. Option D of Rs 1.45 lakh crore mixes in the 1,45,484 artisans who gained from assistance released to khadi institutions in 2024-25, again a count of people. Only the first option gives the sales value for the year.

The correct answer is Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy. The Ministry of Ayush has published a separate Standard Treatment Guidelines document for each of these four systems, and Yoga has been brought into the guidelines as an inclusion rather than as a fifth system with its own document. Option A wrongly lists Yoga and Naturopathy as systems with their own guidelines in this set. Option C and Option D bring in Sowa-Rigpa, which is indeed one of the systems under the Ayush umbrella but is not among the four for which these skin disorder guidelines have been issued. Candidates should also note that the documents were prepared by the Ayush Vertical of the Directorate General of Health Services under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and that they were released on the occasion of the 11th Ayurveda Day.

The correct answer is 27. The collection drawn from Uttarakhand in this edition runs to twenty-seven mementos, all of them gifts presented to the Prime Minister, and they include framed artworks, photo prints, temple models and other keepsakes that reflect the state's sacred landmarks, folk traditions and regional identity. The other three options are placed close to the real number, which is the usual pattern in such questions, so the exact count is worth fixing in memory. Equally important is where the money goes: proceeds from the auction support the Namami Gange Programme for the rejuvenation and conservation of the river. Candidates should also note that this is the eighth edition of the initiative, that it is being run by the Ministry of Culture, and that bids are placed online through the official PM Mementos portal.

The correct answer is 1956. KVIC is a statutory body established under the Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act of that year, and the Act is what gives the commission its mandate to plan, promote, facilitate, organise and assist village industries. The same mandate covers training, raw material supply, marketing, research and quality improvement, along with skill development and technical information for khadi and village industries. The other years do not carry this Act. Option A of 1948 belongs to the early years after independence and to the first industrial policy statement, not to this commission. Option B of 1951 is associated with the start of planned development in the country and not with khadi legislation. Option D of 1962 is later than the commission's creation and has no link with its founding law. Candidates should also recall that the commission now works under the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.

The correct answer is the 11th Ayurveda Day. The Ministry of Ayush chose this occasion to put the guidelines in the public domain, which ties the release to the ministry's own calendar of observances. Option A, World Health Day, is marked by the World Health Organization and was not the occasion here. Option B, National Doctors' Day, honours the medical profession in India but is unconnected with this release. Option D, International Yoga Day, is a natural guess because Yoga has been included in the guidelines, yet the release was not timed to it. The edition number matters for examinations, so remember that this was the eleventh observance of Ayurveda Day. The guidelines themselves address psoriasis, dermatitis, vitiligo, urticaria and dermatophytosis across Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy.

The correct answer is the Namami Gange Programme. Money raised through the auction of mementos presented to the Prime Minister goes towards the rejuvenation and conservation of the Ganga under this programme, which is why the wooden model of the Ganga Ji Mandir at Mukhba is described as tying the Uttarakhand collection to the purpose of the initiative. Option A, the Swachh Bharat Mission, is the national sanitation programme and is not the beneficiary here. Option C, the Jal Jeevan Mission, works on piped drinking water supply to rural households. Option D, the Atal Bhujal Yojana, deals with groundwater management in selected states. All three are plausible water and cleanliness programmes, which makes the question a good test, but only the Namami Gange Programme receives the auction proceeds.

The correct answer is 840 yards. A hank is the unit in which a khadi spinner's work is measured, and one hank equals 840 yards of yarn in length and one pound by weight. The unit matters because artisan remuneration is paid on it: pay has gone up from Rs 4 per hank in 2013-14 to Rs 15 per hank at present, an increase of about 275 per cent. Option A of 640 yards, option C of 1,000 yards and option D of 1,200 yards are not the measure used for a hank, and a candidate who remembers only the round thousand will get the sum wrong. Women make up more than 80 per cent of the nearly five lakh artisans in the khadi sector, so this wage unit decides the earnings of a largely female workforce. Remember the pair together: 840 yards by length and one pound by weight.

The correct answer is Shri Prataprao Jadhav, who holds independent charge of the Ministry of Ayush as Minister of State and is also Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare. He said the guidelines would deepen the integration of the Ayush systems with the national healthcare framework and would support safe, effective and holistic care for common skin conditions. Option B, Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, is the Secretary of the Ministry of Ayush and spoke separately about standardisation and evidence-based practice, but he is an official and not the minister. Option C, Dr Loveneesh G. Krishna, is the Director General of Health Services and highlighted multidisciplinary collaboration. Option D names the Union Health Minister, a plausible distractor since the Directorate General of Health Services falls under the health ministry, but he is not the Ayush minister quoted here.

The correct answer is Lakshya Sen, the badminton player from Uttarakhand whose signed racket is the one object from the world of sport in a collection otherwise shaped by the state's religious and cultural heritage. The connection examiners look for is the player's home state, since the whole set is built around Uttarakhand. Option B, Kidambi Srikanth, is a leading Indian singles player from Andhra Pradesh and is not linked to this collection. Option C, H. S. Prannoy, hails from Kerala. Option D, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, is a doubles specialist from Andhra Pradesh. Besides the racket, the set includes four temple models, a photo print of the Char Dham shrines of Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri, Aipan folk artwork and seven Uttarakhandi or Pahari caps.

The correct answer is the Directorate of Ayush, Government of NCT of Delhi. Field-level validation was a notable feature of the exercise: the protocols were tried out with Medical Officers working in primary and secondary healthcare under this directorate, and the feedback they gave on how usable the protocols were in day-to-day practice was built into the final documents. Option A, the All India Institute of Ayurveda, is a major Ayurveda institution but is not named as the validation partner. Option B, the Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, belongs to the group of Ayush Research Councils whose technical expertise went into drafting the guidelines, which is a different role from field validation. Option D, the National Medical Commission, regulates modern medical education and had no part in this process. The drafting itself involved classical texts, current evidence and consensus-based deliberation.

The correct answer is Mukhba. The wooden model is of the Ganga Ji Mandir at Mukhba, and this piece is singled out as the one that connects the Uttarakhand heritage on display with the aim of the auction, because the Ganga is central to the spiritual life of the state and the sale funds the river's rejuvenation. Option A, Ukhimath, is the site of the Omkareshwar Temple, another of the four temple models in the collection, which makes it the most tempting wrong answer. Option C, Gangotri, is one of the Char Dham shrines shown in the photo print rather than the location of this wooden model. Option D, Haridwar, is where the framed image of Mansa Devi comes from. Keeping each object with its place is the surest way to answer such questions.