Delhi Current Affairs Quiz: October 2026

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.

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.

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.

Four flying squad teams set up by the Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas inspected twenty five road stretches of the Inner and Outer Ring Road, together covering about thirty five kilometres, all of them under the Public Works Department of Delhi.

The Commission's order requires industrial units in the National Capital Region to put in the additional Pan-Tilt-Zoom cameras by that date, following the standard operating procedure it has laid down.

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.

That is the floor below which the freehold parcel at Najafgarh Industrial Area will not be sold, and every bid in the electronic auction has to start from it.

The high-level CAQM team visited these two districts during the paddy harvesting season because both have been identified as hotspots for paddy stubble burning, and the review meeting with Deputy Commissioners was held at Amritsar.

The Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, along with Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, flagged off 150 new electric buses at Swami Vivekanand ISBT in Anand Vihar under the Sewa Sankalp Abhiyaan, as part of the capital's push towards cleaner public transport.

The order requires every covered industrial unit to have the cameras installed and working, with arrangements for real time transmission of the video feeds already in place, by that date.

The correct answer is Shri Bhupender Yadav, the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, who met start-ups and innovation companies working on air pollution mitigation and himself put a set of problem statements covering nine key areas before them.

This is the statutory body that reviewed enforcement action, inspection findings and compliance across the National Capital Region at the 141st meeting of its Enforcement Task Force.

The court set up the High Powered Enquiry Committee to enquire into all aspects of the incidents of violence at Jantar Mantar in Delhi and at places outside Delhi during July 2026, and the Committee has now opened a portal so that affected persons, including affected police personnel, can send…

He headed the high level team that went to the two districts of Punjab to examine how the measures against paddy stubble burning are being carried out during the harvesting season.

The Namo Bharat regional rapid rail corridor runs from Delhi to Meerut through Ghaziabad and measures 82 km end to end.

Stage-I of the Graded Response Action Plan is the stage meant for poor air, and it was invoked across the National Capital Region after Delhi's daily average index was recorded at 244 at 2 PM and then at 245 by 4 PM, both of which sit inside that band.

Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah attended the ceremony at which 10 Yamuna rejuvenation projects were inaugurated and foundation stones were laid for 33 more, and the schemes together carry this total cost.

That is the full form of AATAL, the facility inaugurated for Delhi NCR by Dr Jitendra Singh at the Delhi branch of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology.

The meeting took stock of the arrangements for comprehensive paddy stubble management and of the measures needed to end the burning of residue.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare is holding Khet Bachao Abhiyan - Rabi 2026 across the country over these weeks, working through its two departments.

Its second edition was held on 27 and 28 October 2026 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, organised by ICLEI South Asia along with the National Institute of Urban Affairs and supported by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

The Commission for Air Quality Management built this Integrated Command and Control Centre in New Delhi as a single-window digital nerve centre for the capital region, and the Union Environment Minister reviewed its technological framework and operational readiness.

It held the workshop together with Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban, and its Secretary, Ms D. Thara, addressed the gathering along with senior officials of the New Delhi Municipal Council, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the Delhi Development Authority and the ministry.

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change put Delhi's monthly average Air Quality Index for October 2026 at 166, the lowest average the capital has recorded for the month of October in the past eight years.

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.

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…

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.

The drive assessed visible road dust and the effectiveness of road cleaning and sweeping along the Ring Road.

The standard operating procedure in the order says cameras must be placed so as to capture all fuel storage areas and all fuel charging points, and where a gas-based fuel is used, the gauge or meter of the gas must be in view as well.

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…

NLMC was set up to help central public sector enterprises and other government entities monetise surplus land and non-core assets, and it sits in that department.

As part of its monitoring mechanism the Commission has deployed Flying Squads in eighteen districts of Punjab for the period running from the first of October to the last day of November in the same year.

Delhi had forty-seven monitoring stations run by various agencies, among them the Delhi Pollution Control Committee, the Central Pollution Control Board, the India Meteorological Department, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology and the ministry dealing with housing and urban affairs.

The correct answer is the Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas, usually shortened to CAQM, which issued the order under its own statutory direction and widened the scope of camera-based surveillance.

The interaction of 17 October 2026 between the Union Environment Minister and start-ups was one of a series of stakeholder engagements carried out under that campaign theme, which places a share of the responsibility for clean air on every citizen.

For this 15-day reporting window the Commission recorded 124 inspections in all, made up of six visits to construction and demolition sites, 54 in the industrial sector and 64 relating to diesel generator sets.

The Committee has been asked to enquire into every aspect of the incidents relating to violence at Jantar Mantar in Delhi, and also at places outside Delhi, during July 2026.

These are the machines that handle paddy straw left in the field after the harvest, and the Commission reviewed both their availability and their actual deployment in the two districts.

On that day the Prime Minister dedicated the full Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor to the nation, and Meerut Metro was handed over at the same time.

The Sub-Committee on GRAP decided to invoke all the action points listed under Stage-I of the plan then in force, and that list runs to twenty-five items, applying across the whole National Capital Region with immediate effect.

The Home Minister said that time-bound roadmaps had been prepared jointly for Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi, with the Centre and these state governments working together, and that the Yamuna would be made clean by that year.

The laboratory has been established under Mission Mausam, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to deepen the scientific understanding of atmospheric pollution and to supply usable evidence for managing air quality in Delhi NCR.

Both Amritsar and Tarn Taran are districts of Punjab, and the commission's team held its review meeting with their Deputy Commissioners and other concerned officers.

Under the campaign agricultural scientists travel to farmers' fields to share the newest scientific techniques, research-based knowledge and practical information that can improve farming practice and productivity, which is exactly what the expression describes.

Implement. Deliver.

The platform integrates readings from 111 continuous ambient air quality monitoring stations that are operational across Delhi and the national capital region, installed by the Central Pollution Control Board, the India Meteorological Department and the state pollution control boards.

These are the spots in a city where waste keeps accumulating however often it is cleared, and tackling such recurring points was one of the ten critical questions the workshop was built around, along with measures to stop littering and to keep waste out of water bodies.

In the ten months from January to October 2026 the capital counted 220 days whose daily average stayed below 200 on the index, which is the band described as 'Good to Moderate'.

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.

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.