SSC MTS Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 5–11 October 2026

The correct answer is Nitin Gadkari, the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, who inaugurated the conclave at Tent City 2 near the Statue of Unity at Ekta Nagar in the Narmada district of Gujarat. Option A, Harsh Malhotra, is a genuine participant but in a different capacity: he is the Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways and he addressed the inaugural session rather than inaugurating the event, which is exactly the distinction examiners like to test. Options C and D name ministers who hold other portfolios and had no role in this conclave. Candidates should attach the event to the correct ministry first, because a conclave on highways naturally belongs to Road Transport and Highways, and then remember that the cabinet minister inaugurated it while the minister of state spoke at the same session.

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 9 October. World Post Day is observed on this date and it opens National Postal Week, which the Department of Posts is celebrating from 9 to 15 October 2026. Option C, 12 October, is the date of Fun with Philately Day, one of the themed days inside the same week, so it is a tempting but wrong choice. Option D, 15 October, marks Technology and Innovation Day, with which the week concludes, and is therefore the closing date rather than the opening one. Option A, 1 October, is not part of the Postal Week calendar at all. Candidates should hold the whole span in mind - the week begins on 9 October with World Post Day and ends on 15 October.

The correct answer is the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, which steers this campaign across the Union Government. The campaign seeks to strengthen cleanliness in government offices, improve efficiency, ensure that pending matters are disposed of in time and promote better management of official resources. Option A is wrong because the Department of Personnel and Training handles service matters, training and personnel policy rather than leading this drive. Option C is wrong because the Department of Science and Technology is one of the many departments taking part in the campaign, not the body coordinating it; the question asks for the nodal department. Option D is wrong because the Department of Expenditure deals with public finance and budgets. Candidates should remember the nodal department along with the campaign window of October and the focus on electronic waste, since all three are commonly asked.

The correct answer is 123 cities. The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution said more than two lakh quintals of buffer onion had been disposed of so far, moved by eight Kanda Express rail consignments and four hundred and sixty-seven trucks, and that additional rail rakes were being planned so larger quantities could reach high-consumption markets before the festive season. Options A, C and D give other counts of cities that do not match the figure announced. Study this together with the price picture. In Maharashtra the weighted average mandi price slipped by nearly thirteen per cent between the middle of September and the start of October, and on the retail side one hundred and twenty-six cities reported a fall of one to twenty-one rupees a kilogram over a fortnight, with moderation visible in large consuming States such as Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal.

The correct answer is more than 15.96 crore. At the regional review of Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0, the Secretary of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation said that rural drinking water access has been transformed, with more than 15.96 crore rural households now holding tap water connections. Option A is wrong because 3.27 crore is the number of households that had tap connections when the Mission was launched, that is the base figure rather than the present one. Option B is wrong because no such intermediate figure was placed before the meeting. Option D is wrong because it overstates the coverage reported. The pair of numbers is what matters for the examination: 3.27 crore at the start and more than 15.96 crore now, which together show the scale of the change claimed.

The correct answer is 2 to 31 October 2026. That is the implementation period announced by the government for the sixth edition of the special campaign, under which departments clear pendency, manage records and dispose of electronic waste. Option A names the preparatory phase, which ran from 15 to 30 September 2026 and was used to set targets rather than to implement them, so it is a careful distractor. Options C and D give periods that were not announced. In the case of the Department of Biotechnology, the drive is being carried out along with its scientific cadre units, divisions, autonomous institutions and public sector undertakings, and the Secretary along with the Joint Secretary who serves as nodal officer is reviewing progress. The campaign itself is coordinated by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances.

The correct answer is Rowriah, Jorhat, Assam. The Central Silk Board’s Silkworm Seed Production Centre there received a newly constructed grainage building and cold storage facility, inaugurated by the Union Minister of State for Textiles under the North-East Region Textile Promotion Scheme. Option B names another locality near the same town and is the kind of near-miss that catches a candidate who remembers only the district. Options C and D name places long associated with silk research and seed work elsewhere in the country, which is precisely why they are planted here; neither features in this inauguration. The facility can produce 30 lakh disease-free layings of mulberry hybrid seed a year and preserve up to 1 crore of them, so quality seed should reach the region’s farmers on time.

The correct answer is Digital Health Resources: Redefining Access Through Libraries. The National Medical Library, which functions under the Directorate General of Health Services in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, organised the one-day conference on this theme in New Delhi, drawing attention to the place of digital knowledge resources in healthcare delivery, medical education and evidence-based clinical practice. Options A, C and D are invented titles. Option C is a plausible distractor because the Health Secretary did speak of the library contributing to the vision of Viksit Bharat, and option D echoes the idea voiced by the Director General of Health Services that libraries must turn information into evidence and evidence into better healthcare, but neither phrase was the theme. Candidates should also fix the edition in memory, since this was the fifth such conference.

The correct answer is 14416. Tele-MANAS, which stands for Tele Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across States, offers free and confidential counselling on this number at any hour of the day, in several languages, without the caller having to reach a hospital. Options B, C and D are wrong because they are not the number for this service; they are the kind of close variants an examiner uses to test careful reading. Candidates should store the helpline alongside the other figures released for World Mental Health Day: the service began on 10 October 2022, it had taken 47,75,644 calls by October 2026, and it works through 53 cells covering all 36 states and union territories of the country. The service is especially valuable in rural and remote areas where specialists are hard to reach.

The correct answer is Gatishakti se Pragati, which translates as progress through Gatishakti and ties the conclave to the PM GatiShakti approach of planning infrastructure in an integrated way rather than ministry by ministry. The motto is not decorative: one of the thematic sessions is devoted to PM GatiShakti and integrated infrastructure planning, so the slogan and the agenda match. Options A and D are well-known government phrases from other contexts and are offered here precisely because they sound familiar, while option C is invented. In questions on conferences, the pairing of the event name with its theme or motto is asked more often than any other detail, so learn the two together, along with the venue and the minister who opened the event.

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 One Postal Network, Infinite Possibilities. The theme announced for World Post Day this year is 'World Post Day: One Postal Network, Infinite Possibilities', and it frames the week-long observance by the Department of Posts. Options B, C and D are plausible-sounding but invented lines, and none of them is the theme adopted for this observance, so each is wrong. Themes are among the most frequently asked details about important days, so it is worth noting the exact wording rather than a rough sense of it. Pair the theme with the dates of the week, from 9 to 15 October 2026, and with the five themed days that the Department has set out for the observance.

The correct answer is 2 October to 31 October 2026. The preparatory phase of the campaign closed on the last day of September, and the working phase was then taken up for the whole of October, which is why the Department of Science and Technology held a review of readiness with its autonomous institutions and field organisations. Option A describes the period of the preparatory stage rather than the implementation stage, and the two are often swapped in questions to test careful reading. Option C stretches the campaign to the end of the year, which is longer than the notified window. Option D shifts the dates into the middle of two months and matches neither phase. Candidates should remember that the campaign opens on the second of October, the date associated with cleanliness drives in India, and closes with the month.

The correct answer is Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan. These were named as the major producing States from which fresh kharif onion had started reaching markets, while availability from stored stocks continued to meet demand in the meantime, and arrivals were expected to rise further in the following weeks. Option A is wrong because those northern States were not named as the source of the new kharif crop. Option C is wrong as well, since none of those three States was listed. Option D names consuming States where retail prices were easing rather than the producing States sending the new crop. Two supporting facts are worth remembering: the all-India kharif onion area was estimated at about five per cent above last year, which itself was a strong level, and the weather agency expected no excessive rainfall in the main kharif onion regions during harvesting, which helps harvesting, drying and movement and cuts the risk of moisture damage.

The correct answer is IIM Bangalore. The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation of the Ministry of Jal Shakti organised the regional review meeting at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, where Professor Gopal Naik, who holds the JJM Professor Chair at that institute, also presented a study on power cost optimisation in Mission schemes. Option B is wrong because no meeting is reported at Ahmedabad. Option C is wrong because the venue was a management institute and not an institute of technology. Option D is wrong because the Kozhikode campus had no role in this review. Aspirants should link the institute to the JJM Professor Chair and to the study comparing grid-based and solar-powered water supply configurations and their effect on life-cycle costs.

The correct answer is Rs 39,33,055. The figure came from the disposal of electronic waste together with non-electronic scrap, and it sits alongside a set of other targets fixed in the preparatory phase: the review of 18,741 electronic files and 7,773 physical files, cleanliness and space-clearing work at 156 sites, the release of 46,486 square feet of usable space, and the disposal of 1,694 items of e-waste. Options A, C and D are amounts that were not reported. The department framed the exercise as creating both financial value for the public exchequer and usable space for government offices, and progress is being recorded through before-and-after photographs uploaded to the SCDPM portal. Candidates should learn these figures as one cluster, since the campaign is reported department by department.

The correct answer is about 84 per cent, which works out to 73 metric tonnes of Muga silk. The trap here is option C: 74 per cent is Assam’s share of Eri silk production, amounting to 2,131 metric tonnes, and the two shares are routinely swapped in question papers, so the pairing must be learnt together. Options A and B are invented figures. Muga is the golden silk for which Assam is known, and the minister pointed to Mission Senehjori as a way of turning it into a high-value product for global markets. For completeness, the State recorded 6 per cent of mulberry raw silk output, or 9 metric tonnes, in 2026-27 up to July, and the whole North-Eastern Region recorded 142 metric tonnes of mulberry silk in the same period.

The correct answer is 93 medical colleges. Smt. Punya Salila Srivastava, Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, highlighted the growth of the National Medical Library network to that many colleges and urged that its reach be extended to every medical college in the country, with particular attention to institutions in underserved areas so that access to quality medical literature and digital learning resources is equitable. Options A, B and D name counts that appear nowhere in the account of the conference. The figure is worth remembering together with two policy names she invoked, namely the One Nation One Subscription initiative and the ERMED Consortium, which she described as complementary ways of widening access to scholarly publications for clinicians, researchers and students.

The correct answer is A. The day falls on 10 October every year, and the theme for the 2026 observance asks that the voices of those who have lived with mental health conditions be heard and allowed to shape policy and services. Option B pairs the right date with a theme of an earlier year, so it is wrong. Option C carries the right theme but the wrong date, since 7 April is observed as World Health Day. Option D is wrong on both counts, as 2 October is marked for other reasons in India. A useful link for revision: the launch date of Tele-MANAS, which also falls on 10 October, in the year 2022, so the service was started on a World Mental Health Day.

The correct answer is Tent City 2 at the Statue of Unity, Ekta Nagar, which lies in the Narmada district of Gujarat. The venue is worth remembering in full, because questions are set on the district as readily as on the state, and Ekta Nagar is the settlement beside the Statue of Unity that now hosts a steady stream of national conferences. Option A, Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, is a frequent venue for national events and is therefore the most tempting wrong answer. Option B, the Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad, is in the same state but is not the site of this conclave. Option D, the Rann of Kutch, is also in Gujarat and hosts its own well-known festival, but has no connection with this event. Fix the chain in memory: Chintan Shivir to Ekta Nagar to Narmada district to Gujarat.

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 Financial Inclusion and CCS Day, which is observed on 13 October 2026, a Tuesday. The day draws attention to the contribution of the Department of Posts in widening access to financial services through its very large network, reaching citizens across varied geographies and socio-economic backgrounds. Option A, Fun with Philately Day, falls a day earlier on 12 October 2026. Option B, Mails and Parcels Day, comes the day after, on 14 October 2026. Option D, Technology and Innovation Day, closes the week on 15 October 2026. Learning the four dated themed days in order makes this type of matching question straightforward in the examination hall. World Post Day itself, on 9 October 2026, opens the observance and carries the theme of one postal network and infinite possibilities, so it is the fifth of the themed days.

The correct answer is the E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2022. Offices taking part in the campaign were told to identify and separate the electronic waste generated during the drive and to dispose of it only through authorised recyclers, following these rules together with the applicable guidelines of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. The purpose is safe and environmentally sound disposal along with recovery of useful material. Options A and B name rules that govern municipal solid waste and plastic waste respectively, both important in their own fields but not the framework cited for electronic waste here. Option D refers to an older framework for hazardous waste and is not the set of rules named for this campaign. Candidates should note that disposal through authorised recyclers, rather than through any scrap dealer, is the key requirement.

The correct answer is Kanda Express. Eight such rail movements, together with four hundred and sixty-seven trucks, were used to carry more than two lakh quintals of buffer onion to one hundred and twenty-three cities, and further rail rakes were being planned so that bigger quantities could reach markets with heavy consumption. Option A names a different scheme for moving perishables and was not cited here. Option C is not a service named in this context. Option D is likewise not the name used for these onion movements. For the examination, link the buffer release to the wider supply picture described: the new kharif crop arriving from the producing States, the stored stock still in the market and the government release together give three channels of supply, which is why the ministry expected availability to stay comfortable and prices to moderate further in the weeks ahead.

The correct answer is pipeline leakages and breakages. Drawing on the findings of the Jal Seva Adhayan, the Secretary told the meeting that leakages and breakages in pipelines continue to be the single largest cause of disruption in rural water supply, and that power cuts and low-voltage problems come next. Option A is wrong precisely because power related problems were placed second rather than first, although the Mission Director did stress that poor power quality hurts service in several areas and that reducing power costs would improve operational sustainability. Option C is wrong because groundwater depletion, while a wider concern addressed through source sustainability work, was not named as the leading cause here. Option D is wrong because no such finding on staffing was reported at this review.

The correct answer is 2 October 2026. The department marked Swachh Bharat Diwas on that day with an e-waste disposal drive led by the Secretary at its headquarters in the CGO Complex in Delhi, where officers were urged to identify and dispose of obsolete items and unserviceable material both at work and at home. Option A, 1 October 2026, is the date of a different activity, the one-hour mass cleanliness drive named Ek Din, Ek Ghanta, Ek Saath held in a public park near the JLN Metro Station and followed by sapling plantation under Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam. Option C is within the preparatory phase and option D is the closing date of the campaign, neither of which matches. The department also held a waste-to-art activity called Kabbad Se Kala on the theme Swachhata Se Samridhi.

The correct answer is about 29.50 lakh persons. The minister cited this estimate to show how much livelihood depends on the sector, which is the reason seed quality and modern infrastructure matter well beyond the rearing shed. Options A, B and D alter the leading digit of the real figure and are the standard distractors for an employment number. The context is worth remembering with it: the Central Silk Board’s seed network covers both the mulberry and the Vanya sectors, with its national silkworm seed organisation serving the mulberry side and two separate organisations supporting Vanya seed. The minister argued that quality silkworm seed, modern infrastructure, technology and skill development together decide whether sericulture stays productive, and he linked the effort to an Aatmanirbhar North-East.

The correct answer is ClinicalKey, BMJ, Access Medicine and MedOne. A central feature of the conference was practical training on these four platforms, meant to familiarise medical librarians and healthcare professionals with them and strengthen their ability to reach clinical information and academic resources. Option B lists well-known databases and archives, but none of them was named in the training. Option C names clinical evidence resources that likewise do not appear in the account. Option D is the trickiest, since it keeps two correct names and swaps in two that were never mentioned, which is exactly how such questions are set. Candidates should also recall the panel discussion of the day, titled From Custodian to Clinical Partner: The Next Mandate for the Medical Librarian.

The correct answer is 767 districts. The programme runs under the National Mental Health Programme with support to states and union territories through the National Health Mission, and it funds outpatient care, counselling, psychosocial help, medicines, follow-up, outreach, referral and inpatient treatment at the district level. Options A, B and D are wrong because no such sanction figure was reported. Pair this number with the other reach figure of the same release: mental health services have been built into the primary healthcare package at more than 1.83 lakh Ayushman Arogya Mandirs, where health teams screen for early signs of distress, give psychosocial support and send patients to higher centres when needed. Together these form the ground-level layer below the telephone counselling service.