Haryana Current Affairs Quiz: October 2026

The consignment of frozen food products was flagged off from Sonipat in Haryana for the Canadian market, it was exported by Aterna Foods Producer Company Limited, and the Chairman of APEDA said at the event that he expected exports to Canada to grow further.

Union Minister of Jal Shakti Shri C. R. Patil attended the Special Gram Sabha there, in Chikhli Block, on Swachh Bharat Diwas.

The auction of mementos presented to the Prime Minister is held so that the gifts serve a larger public purpose, and the money raised in this edition is directed to the Namami Gange Project, the programme for cleaning and conserving the river Ganga.

Antim Panghal finished second in the women's 53 kg freestyle wrestling event at the Asian Games, and the Prime Minister congratulated her on that silver medal, calling it exemplary.

The release of the environment ministry states that Flying Squads have been deployed in 34 districts across the two States for the period from 1 October to 30 November 2026, and it splits the number as 18 districts in Punjab and 16 districts in Haryana.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare and Rural Development chose this historic town for the launch of the soil health campaign, and farmers at the venue took a collective pledge to apply fertiliser in balance and to stop setting fire to crop residue.

He chaired the two separate review meetings the Commission held at Chandigarh with the governments of Punjab and Haryana, going through enforcement on the ground, district preparedness and the use of crop residue machinery.

The seminar carries exactly this theme, and the phrase itself captures the idea behind the whole exercise, namely that equipment already held by the Army should be reworked into advanced and future-ready combat systems rather than simply replaced.

The project was titled "Community-Based Ayurveda Intervention for Promotion of Physical and Mental Health in Elderly Population of Faridabad District, Haryana State", and under the institute’s Public Health Initiative it screened 5,594 people in the sixty to eighty year age group there over three months.

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.

Vidyanjali is its initiative for strengthening government and government-aided schools through organised community and private sector participation, and it runs on a digital platform that connects a school with volunteers, organisations and CSR partners.

The consignment comprised 2,295 boxes of frozen food products weighing 24 MT in all, and its declared shipment value was CAD 35,140, the currency being the Canadian dollar because the buyer is in Canada.

The framework lets a panchayat judge its own sanitation work each year, and it was taken up in the Special Gram Sabhas, above all in ODF Plus (Model) Gram Panchayats; the Joint Secretary and Mission Director of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) made a presentation on it at Majigam.

He is identified as the first Indian to win a Paralympic gold medal in archery, and an arrow presented by him is one of the seven mementos from Haryana in this edition of the auction.

The event named in the Prime Minister's congratulatory message is the women's 53 kg freestyle wrestling competition, so that is the style in which the silver medal was won.

The release fixes the deployment for exactly that window, which is the stretch when paddy is harvested in Punjab and Haryana and when crop residue is most often burnt, and it is also the period when air quality in the National Capital Region falls sharply.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 Minister asked vice-chancellors of agricultural universities, the Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, scientists and officials to leave their laboratories and offices and reach villages between 22 October and 30 November 2026, holding meetings with farmers on soil health and balanced nutrient use.

Compliance with it was reviewed with both Punjab and Haryana, because moving brick kilns to pellets and briquettes made from paddy straw creates steady demand for the residue and takes away the reason to set fields on fire.

The correct answer is Chandimandir Military Station, which is the headquarters station of Western Command and the chosen venue for the two-day seminar in December 2026.

The All India Institute of Ayurveda in New Delhi is an autonomous institution under this Ministry, and it works on Ayurveda through education, research, clinical services and public health initiatives.

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 two make up the corporate social responsibility side of Vidyanjali and allow an organisation to take up a requirement a school has itself identified and to contribute towards that school's development.

Addressing the gathering at the flag-off, the Chairman of APEDA congratulated the exporter and the stakeholders, said that a direct export by the farmer producer organisation would raise considerably the value realised by the producers, acknowledged the contribution of NIFTEM and expressed hope of expanding exports to the Canadian market.

The same drive was followed at the sabhas in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Jharkhand and Haryana, where plantation accompanied the honouring of sanitation workers and the Swachhata pledge.

Navdeep Singh won the gold medal in that event at the Paris Paralympics, and the cap and signed shirt he presented are part of the Haryana collection in the eighth edition of the PM Mementos auction.

The Prime Minister congratulated Antim Panghal on winning the silver medal in the women's 53 kg freestyle wrestling event at the Asian Games, describing her performance as exemplary and wonderful.

The release states that the Flying Squads were deployed following a communication made by CAQM to the Central Pollution Control Board, usually written as CPCB.

The Commission had already prescribed a standard list of approved fuels for various applications in the National Capital Region, including industrial use, but its Flying Squads, during incognito inspections of industries across the region, reported multiple instances of unapproved fuels being burnt.

The correct answer is the Real Time Streaming Protocol, commonly written as RTSP, which the order names for continuous live transmission of the camera feeds to the designated servers and portals of the pollution control authorities.

This is the running total of units, projects and entities across the region that the Flying Squads of the Commission had visited up to that date.

The review covered their deployment for technology based monitoring and for analysing trends in farm fires, in addition to field level surveillance by officials and a close watch over the hotspot areas.

The Sub-Committee met on 21 October 2026, reviewed the air quality of Delhi and the region along with the forecasts placed before it, and decided to bring Stage-I of the plan into force with immediate effect.

The Home Minister said that 10 projects were inaugurated at the function and 33 projects were started with the laying of foundation stones, and that the schemes begun carry a total cost of Rs 8,941 crore.

Speaking as Union Rural Development Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced central approval for that many permanent houses for eligible poor families in Haryana, with Rs 1,343.06 crore sanctioned for the purpose, and handed the formal letter to Haryana Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Minister Shyam Singh Rana on the stage.

The correct answer is Chandigarh, the common capital of the two states, which is why the Commission could meet both governments separately on the same day.

SIDM is an industry body for defence manufacturers, which is why it fits an event meant to connect military users with the firms that would actually build or refurbish the platforms.

In the first component of the project a sixty-day intervention raised the total score on the World Health Organization Quality of Life assessment by that margin, and improvements were also recorded in all six parameters used to assess Agnibala, along with a gain in bone mineral density.

The minister explained that the centre works on this principle, bringing data from many agencies onto a common platform for real-time and historical study of pollution levels, identification of sources, assessment of trends and tracking of compliance in the field against prescribed standards.