Delhi Current Affairs Quiz: 2 October 2026

The correct answer is Arjun Ram Meghwal. He is the Union Minister of State with Independent Charge for Law and Justice, and in that capacity he led the tree plantation drive on the campus of the India International Arbitration Centre at Vasant Kunj in New Delhi. Option B, Rajiv Mani, is the Secretary of the Legislative Department and of the Department of Legal Affairs and serves as Chairperson of the arbitration centre, so he is a senior official rather than the minister. Option C, Navin Kumar Singh, is the Chief Executive Officer of the centre and thanked the dignitaries at the close of the programme. Option D names someone who did not figure in this event at all. Addressing the gathering, the minister said cleanliness cannot stop at streets and public spaces and must begin with a clean mind, pure thought and a sense of duty towards society.

The correct answer is Namami Gange. Gifts and artefacts presented to the Prime Minister are catalogued and offered for public bidding, and whatever the sale earns is placed at the service of the Namami Gange project, the programme devoted to the cleaning and conservation of the Ganga. This is stated twice in the announcement of the eighth edition, which is a sign of how central the detail is. Option B, the Swachh Bharat Mission, is a sanitation programme and is not the recipient of these proceeds. Option C is a scheme for the girl child and has no link with the auction. Option D, the Smart Cities Mission, concerns urban infrastructure and is likewise unconnected. Candidates should note the chain of facts in one line: gifts to the Prime Minister go to a public auction conducted by the Ministry of Culture, and the money raised goes to Namami Gange.

The correct answer is limestone. Both the blocks auctioned in the Union Territory are limestone blocks, named the Koot-Kapran Limestone Block and the Wantrag Limestone Block, and both lie in Anantnag district. Option A, bauxite, is wrong because no bauxite block figures in this auction; bauxite is associated with other states and not with these two blocks. Option C, iron ore, is wrong for the same reason, as the resource estimates announced here are limestone estimates. Option D, manganese ore, is wrong as well, since neither block was put up as a manganese holding. Aspirants should tie the mineral to the place, because questions on a first-ever auction usually ask for the mineral and the district together: limestone, Anantnag, Jammu & Kashmir.

The correct answer is Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam. The Department of Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Law and Justice organised the drive under that theme on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti, and it formed part of Special Campaign 6 as well as Swachhata Hi Seva 2026. Options A, C and D are plausible-sounding names for plantation or greening drives, but none of them is the theme named for this event. The minister, the law secretary who chairs the centre, and senior officers of the department and the centre planted saplings on the campus together. The programme ended with a pledge to carry on cleanliness work and to promote a greener and more sustainable environment, and the centre's leadership tied that pledge to the wider aims of the Swachh Bharat Mission.

The correct answer is Delhi. The edition puts up thirty mementos chosen to show the many dimensions of the capital, and the lots bear this out: a framed artwork of St. Stephen's College, a crystal memento of the Old Secretariat building, a textile artwork of the New Parliament Building, two Delhi Metro models, a painting of Saint Dada Dev from Palam village, and a pencil portrait of the Prime Minister drawn by a student from Rohini. Options A, B and D name cities that do not figure as the theme of this edition. The surest way to answer such an item is to look at the lots themselves, since the landmarks named in them, from the Legislative Assembly to the Metro, all belong to one city. Pair the edition number with the theme while revising, because both are asked together.

The correct answer is Anantnag. Both the Koot-Kapran Limestone Block and the Wantrag Limestone Block lie in Anantnag district of the Union Territory, and the first of them is located more precisely in Koot and Kapran villages of Dooru Tehsil. Option A, Baramulla, is wrong because no block in this auction is placed there. Option B, Udhampur, is wrong for the same reason, and it has been offered because it is a familiar district name from the Jammu region. Option D, Kathua, is wrong as well, since neither of the auctioned holdings falls in that district. The district is the detail a paper setter is most likely to combine with the mineral, so remember the pair together, along with the tehsil name Dooru for the Koot-Kapran block.

The correct answer is 1917. Speaking at the plantation drive, the minister recalled Gandhi's stay in Champaran in that year and highlighted how Gandhi began efforts towards sanitation and hygiene there, how those efforts became part of a wider mass movement, and how they contributed to addressing the grievances of indigo farmers. Options A and B fall before the Champaran episode the minister described and do not match the year he named. Option D comes after it and belongs to a later phase of the national movement. The minister drew a lesson from Champaran for the present day, saying that cleanliness is a mission of empathy and shared responsibility rather than merely a campaign, and he linked that idea to Swachhata Hi Seva being a people's movement in which every individual has a role.

The correct answer is Yogesh Kathuniya, described in the announcement as a Paralympic silver medallist whose discus is part of the collection and stands for sporting achievement and perseverance. Option A, Sumit Antil, is a Paralympic athlete of the javelin and not the owner of the discus in this auction. Option C, Devendra Jhajharia, is also a javelin thrower with a long Paralympic record, so his name is a plausible distractor, but the item named here is a discus. Option D, Neeraj Chopra, is an Olympic javelin thrower and not a Paralympic competitor at all. The detail to carry away is the pairing of the implement with the athlete: a discus, belonging to Yogesh Kathuniya, among gifts presented to the Prime Minister and now open to public bidding, with the proceeds going to the Namami Gange project.

The correct answer is 10.853 million tonnes. The Wantrag Limestone Block covers 5.36 hectares and carries that estimated limestone resource, and it has been explored up to the G-3 stage, a stage reached with 159 metres of drilling. Option A is wrong because that figure belongs to the other block in the same auction, the Koot-Kapran Limestone Block, which spreads over 22.43 hectares; swapping the two estimates is the commonest error on this question. Option B is wrong because no such estimate was announced for either holding. Option D is wrong for the same reason, the figure being larger than anything reported here. Note the contrast worth remembering: Wantrag is the smaller block by area but the richer one by estimated resource.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Mines, Government of India. The Government of Jammu & Kashmir entrusted the auction of its mineral blocks to the Ministry of Mines, which carried out the process under the Central Government mineral auction route and announced the successful result. Option B is wrong because the Geological Survey of India is not named as the body that ran this auction. Option C is wrong because NITI Aayog has no role in auctioning mineral blocks and is a policy institution. Option D is wrong because the Indian Bureau of Mines is not identified here as the auctioning authority either. The ministry has said it will continue to work with the Union Territory government on transparent and responsible development of its mineral resources.