SSC MTS Current Affairs Quiz: 1 October 2026

The correct answer is the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, known by its short form DARPG. It runs this government-wide drive, in which ministries and their attached, subordinate and autonomous bodies clean their premises, weed out old files and clear pending references. The campaign also has a monitoring portal maintained by the same department, where daily progress is uploaded. Option A, the Department of Personnel and Training, handles service matters of government employees and does not run this drive. Option C, the Department of Expenditure, deals with public finance under the Finance Ministry. Option D, the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, works on rural water and sanitation under the Ministry of Jal Shakti; although cleanliness is its subject, this particular campaign is not its own. So only option B is correct.

The correct answer is Bronze. The Indian women's team in squash finished third in its event at the Games and so took the bronze medal, a result the Prime Minister described as a richly deserved place on the podium while congratulating the players for a spirited effort and for the resolve they showed. Option A is wrong because the team did not finish first; a gold would have meant topping the event. Option B is wrong because silver goes to the runner-up, and that was not the position the Indian side finished in. Option D is wrong because a fourth place would have left the team off the podium altogether, whereas the whole point of the congratulations was that the players had secured a podium place. For examinations, the pairing to remember is the women's squash team with the bronze medal at these Games.

The correct answer is five years. The revised framework of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways ties the validity of an exempted FASTag to the percentage of disability on record, and the higher slab of 70 to 100 per cent carries a validity of five years. Option A is wrong because yearly renewal was the earlier practice that this revision does away with; it is no longer the rule for any slab. Option B is wrong because three years is the validity for the lower slab, that is a recorded disability of 40 to less than 70 per cent, so the figure is real but attached to the wrong group. Option D is wrong because no slab under these guidelines runs for ten years. After the validity ends the tag may be renewed, provided the holder is still eligible and the conditions of the National Highways Fee Rules, 2008 are satisfied.

The correct answer is Scholarship for Education Transformation and Upliftment. The app carries this name together with the National Scholarship Portal and belongs to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, serving beneficiaries of the Pre-Matric and Post-Matric Scholarships for Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes. Option A is wrong because the first word is scholarship and not scheme, and nothing in the name refers to transfer or upgradation. Option C is wrong because, although the department does stress transparency as an aim of the app, that word does not appear in the expansion at all. Option D is wrong because tracking is only one of the services the app provides, alongside registration, biometric authentication and submission of applications, and it does not form part of the full form. Expansions of such names are standard one-mark questions.

The correct answer is 2 October to 31 October. The campaign is built in two parts. The first is a preparatory phase, which ran from the sixteenth to the thirtieth of September 2026, and in which each participating ministry fixed the cleaning and disposal targets it would meet. The second is the implementation phase, which starts on the second of October, the day of Gandhi Jayanti, and runs to the end of that month. Option A gives the dates of the preparatory phase, not the implementation phase. Option B covers only the first half of October and stops before the campaign ends. Option D stretches the campaign into the next month, which is not correct. Therefore option C alone gives the right window for the implementation phase of the drive.

The correct answer is squash. The bronze was won by the Indian Women's Squash Team, and while congratulating them the Prime Minister added a remark about the game itself, saying the success would motivate young people towards squash and that the sport is becoming popular in India. Options A, C and D name three other racquet and stick sports in which Indian women's teams regularly compete at continental level, which is precisely what makes them convincing distractors; a candidate who recalls only that an Indian women's team reached the podium may pick any of them. None of them, however, is the sport in which this particular medal was won. The safest way to hold such facts is to learn the three parts together: the team, the sport and the colour of the medal.

The correct answer is 2 October 2026. The ministry announced the revision and stated that the new guidelines would come into force from that date, covering both the issuance and the renewal of exempted FASTags for eligible Divyangjan and persons with disabilities. Option A is wrong because that is the day the announcement itself was made public, not the day the framework begins to operate, and exams frequently set the announcement date against the effective date to see whether a candidate reads carefully. Option C and option D are wrong because no such deferment was provided; the ministry did not push the start into November or into the next financial year. Along with the date, remember that the change replaces compulsory annual renewal with validity fixed by the recorded percentage of disability.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, through its Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, which launched the app in April 2026. Option A is wrong because the Ministry of Education runs its own scholarship schemes, and this app is tied specifically to the Pre-Matric and Post-Matric Scholarships for Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes. Option B is wrong because scholarships for Scheduled Tribes fall under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, a distinction that exams test often, whereas the categories covered here are Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes. Option D is wrong on the same principle, since minority scholarships sit with a different ministry altogether. Along with the ministry, remember that the app also serves Institutional, District and State Nodal Officers.

The correct answer is 595. During the preparatory phase of the campaign, the Ministry of Culture, together with its attached, subordinate and autonomous organisations spread across the country, identified that many sites for cleaning. The same exercise marked 31,515 physical files and 323 electronic files for review, and listed pending references and grievances for disposal, including parliamentary assurances and references from members of Parliament and from the Prime Minister’s Office. Options A, B and D give numbers close to the right one but none of them is the figure the ministry announced for sites, so each is wrong. Candidates should note the site figure along with the file figures, since questions on such campaigns usually ask for one of the three.

The correct answer is the Asian Games 2026. That is the event at which the Indian women's squash side finished on the podium with a bronze medal and for which the Prime Minister sent his congratulations to the players. Option A is wrong because the Commonwealth Games is a separate multi-sport competition held among countries of the Commonwealth, and the medal under discussion did not come from it. Option B is wrong because the Olympic Games is a global event on a four-year cycle and was not the competition involved here. Option D is wrong because the Youth Olympic Games is meant for junior age-group athletes, not for a senior national team of this kind. Examiners often swap one multi-sport event for another in the options, so the name and the year of the Games should be memorised along with the medal.

The correct answer is that the exempted FASTag must still be renewed every year, because this is precisely the requirement the revision removes. Earlier guidelines made annual renewal compulsory; the new framework sets validity by the recorded percentage of disability so that beneficiaries are spared repeated formalities. Option A is correct and therefore not the answer, since the slabs of five years and three years follow directly from the recorded percentage. Option B is correct as well: a valid Disability Certificate, a Unique Disability Identity Card or other applicable records are accepted to establish that percentage. Option D is also correct, because the exemption extends both to vehicles specially designed and built for use by persons with physical disabilities and to vehicles registered under the ownership type recorded as Divyangjan.

The correct answer is direct disbursal of loans to students, which is no part of what this app does. The SETU NSP App brings scholarship services onto a single platform, and lending has nothing to do with the Pre-Matric and Post-Matric Scholarships it serves. Option A is wrong as an answer because registration for scholarship schemes is one of the services expressly provided. Option B is wrong as an answer because biometric authentication can be completed through the app, which is one reason the department describes the platform as secure. Option C is wrong as an answer because tracking the status of an application is among its main features, and it is what allows a student to stay informed about progress without approaching an office. The app also offers user guides and support services.

The correct answer is the Archaeological Survey of India. The shramdaan and plantation drive named Ek Din, Ek Ghanta, Ek Saath is to be held at Purana Qila in Delhi in coordination with that body, which looks after protected monuments. The other options all appear in the ministry’s campaign activities but in different roles. Option A, the National Archives of India, hosted an earlier shramdaan drive on its own lawns and also a training session on records management, besides an inspection of its record room to mark old files for weeding out. Option C, the National School of Drama, partnered the ministry for a street play on cleanliness, heritage and culture staged at the common lawn of Kartavya Bhavan. Option D is not named among the campaign activities at all. Hence option B is the answer.