Madhya Pradesh Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 5–11 October 2026

The correct answer is five. The Environment Ministry announced that KJP21, a female cheetah aged 32 months and herself born on Indian soil, delivered a litter of five healthy cubs at Kuno National Park. With these five newborns the number of cheetahs in India rose to 60, of which 41 were born in the country. Option A, three, is wrong because no litter of that size was reported in this birth; the figure is a plausible distractor since cheetah litters often range from two to four cubs in the wild. Option B, four, is likewise incorrect for the same reason and does not match the count given for KJP21. Option D, six, overstates the litter and is not supported by the announcement. Only the figure five is consistent with the national tally moving to 60 cheetahs on the day of the announcement.

The correct answer is 62 thousand kilometres. At the National Chintan Shivir the Union Rural Development Minister said the fourth phase of the scheme carries a target of 62 thousand kilometres of new rural roads, of which 20 thousand kilometres have already been sanctioned. Option A understates the target and no such figure was mentioned. Option C is a trap because it resembles the figure for roads built so far under the scheme, which stands at about 8.50 lakh kilometres rather than being the target of this phase. Option D inflates the target well beyond anything announced. Aspirants should keep three separate numbers in mind for this scheme: the length already built, the target of the current phase and the portion of that target already sanctioned, because examiners routinely swap one for another in the options.

The correct answer is Gwalior. The zone is coming up at the Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Counter Magnet City, known as SADA, inside Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, and the state government has given about 170 acres of land free of cost for it. The ground-breaking ceremony has been fixed for 29 October 2026, when the Union Home Minister will join more than 24 companies of the telecom trade. Option A, Indore, is wrong: although it is the largest city of Madhya Pradesh by commerce, no telecom zone of this kind has been announced there. Option C, Bhopal, is wrong: it is the state capital and the seat of the government that gave the land, but the project itself sits elsewhere. Option D, Jabalpur, is wrong: it has no role in this announcement. Candidates should link the superlative, Asia’s first such zone, with Gwalior and with the Gwalior-Chambal belt of Madhya Pradesh that the project is expected to lift.

The correct answer is Dhokra metal casting. It is a lost-wax casting tradition whose history in the country runs back more than four thousand years, and several works in the collection show its range, among them an Elephant Head Nandi, a Standing Nandi and a bust of a Madia-Madin tribal couple. Option A refers to a metal craft associated with another region and was not the craft highlighted here. Option C is a scroll painting tradition of eastern India and does not feature in this description. Option D again names an inlay craft from elsewhere. For the examination, keep the rest of the collection in mind as well: a ceremonial headgear of peacock feathers, cowrie shells, metallic discs and brass bells, a Ramnami Samaj chanting stole inscribed with the words of devotion, depictions of landmarks such as Hatkeshwar Mahadev and Madheshwar Mahadev, and contemporary pieces on the Mahtari Vandan Yojana and the silver jubilee of the State legislature.

The correct answer is Rs 70,125 crore. Under PMGSY-IV, with this outlay, about 62,500 km of all-weather roads are targeted so that 25,000 eligible unconnected habitations receive connectivity. Option A is wrong because 62,500 is the road length in kilometres under this phase, not the money allotted, and the two figures are easy to confuse in a hurry. Option C is wrong for the same reason: 25,000 is the number of habitations to be connected, not a rupee figure. Option D is wrong because no such round figure appears in the review of the scheme. These three numbers were put out together at the PMGSY Chintan Shivir held at Bharat Mandapam on 5 and 6 October 2026, and they should be memorised as a set, along with the roughly 8 lakh km of rural roads already built over 25 years.

The correct answer is 67 days. The rules, notified by the Department of Telecommunications under the Telecommunications Act, 2023, came into effect on 1 January 2025 and set up a uniform and transparent framework for laying telecom infrastructure, with rationalised charges and time-bound processing. The same rules allow only 7 days for special projects such as BharatNet, so the pair of numbers is what a paper setter will test. Options A, B and C are round figures of the kind that feel right for a government timeline and are therefore planted as distractors; none of them appears in the rules. Two related facts are worth carrying along: 34 States and Union Territories have issued orders asking local bodies and line departments to follow these rules, and all 36 are live on the Central Right of Way Portal.

The correct answer is Bastar in Chhattisgarh, where the two-day workshop was held on 8 and 9 October 2026 and ended with a call for state-specific and time-bound action plans. Option B is wrong, though Odisha does figure in the discussions, because the deliberations covered cooperative development in the Left Wing Extremism affected districts of Chhattisgarh and Odisha. Options C and D are wrong as no part of the event was held there. The choice of venue is itself worth noting for the examination: holding a national review of the cooperative sector in a district long affected by extremism fits the stress laid at the workshop on cooperative growth in the North Eastern states and the eastern frontier regions.

The correct answer is Kolkata. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs convened the second of its regional review conferences on the Forest Rights Act in the West Bengal capital, and officers of the Tribal Welfare, Revenue and Forest Departments of eight States took part, along with district Collectors from places where claims have piled up. Option A, Bengaluru, is the trap here, because the first conference of the same series was indeed held in that city for the southern States a month earlier; the second one moved east. Option B, Bhubaneswar, is wrong even though Odisha was one of the eight States under review and was praised for its work on habitat rights, since the State was a participant and not the host. Option D, Ranchi, is wrong in the same way: Jharkhand attended but did not host. For the examination, tie the pair together, Kolkata for the eastern and central States and Bengaluru for the southern ones.

The correct answer is 4,209.80 kg. The Madhya Pradesh unit of the Central Bureau of Narcotics ran two operations in the week to 11 October 2026, and the quantities recovered in them add up to this figure. The first case, on the Udaipur-Chittorgarh highway, produced 929.08 kg of poppy straw from a container truck, and the second, in Mandsaur district, produced 3,280.72 kg from a Tata truck, which together make the total. Along with the straw the agency seized two trucks and 100 bags of wheat that had been loaded on top of the contraband as cover cargo, and three persons were arrested under the NDPS Act, 1985. The other three options do not match either the individual recoveries or their sum, so they can be ruled out.

The correct answer is Mukhi and KGP12. The Union Environment Minister stated that KJP21 is the third female cheetah born in India to have given birth, and that she follows Mukhi and KGP12 in that line. This detail matters because an India-born female breeding successfully shows the reintroduced population reproducing on its own rather than depending on animals flown in from Africa. Option B names two cheetahs that were not cited as the earlier India-born mothers in this announcement, so it cannot be correct. Option C is similarly unsupported and functions only as a distractor built from cheetah names an aspirant may recall from earlier news. Option D is wrong for the same reason, as the announcement credits only Mukhi and KGP12 as the two India-born females that bred before KJP21. Candidates should fix the sequence Mukhi, KGP12 and then KJP21 in memory.

The correct answer is Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. The two-day National Chintan Shivir on the rural roads scheme was held at Bharat Mandapam, was addressed by the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and of Rural Development, and was attended by secretaries and chief engineers from every state and union territory. Option A, Vigyan Bhawan, does host government meetings, but this camp was not held there. Option C, Yashobhoomi in Dwarka, is a convention centre known for exhibitions and conferences, which makes it an attractive distractor, yet it was not the venue. Option D is also incorrect, since the release names Bharat Mandapam as the venue. It helps to remember the venue along with the two-day duration of the camp and the name of the minister who addressed it.

The correct answer is Rs 493 crore. The Government of India is bearing the entire cost of building infrastructure in the first phase of the zone, and that figure is a full grant rather than a loan or a shared contribution. Alongside it the Madhya Pradesh government has handed over roughly 170 acres of land without charge, and a Special Purpose Vehicle has been formed in which the state holds the larger share of equity and the Department of Telecommunications the smaller. Options B, C and D are wrong because each rearranges the same digits into a sum that was never announced for the project, a common trap in examinations where a candidate remembers the digits but not their order. Note also the separate figures: investment proposals of over Rs 5,500 crore and an employment potential of more than 18,000, which are the money brought by industry, not by the Centre.

The correct answer is the Namami Gange Project. The auction of the mementos is live, has been extended to the end of October, and whatever it earns goes to that project, with bids placed online through the official memento e-auction portal. Option B names a sanitation mission that was not identified as the beneficiary. Option C is a heritage adoption scheme and is not the destination of these funds. Option D relates to wildlife conservation and is likewise not the named recipient. Alongside this, remember the scale and shape of the collection: sixteen works from a single State, built around a metal-casting tradition more than four thousand years old, with devotional, tribal and contemporary strands. The practice of auctioning gifts and mementos received by the Prime Minister recurs edition after edition, and each round is themed, which is why this one reads as a portrait of Chhattisgarh.

The correct answer is 25,000. The current phase of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana is designed to provide connectivity to 25,000 eligible unconnected habitations, and to do so it targets roughly 62,500 km of all-weather roads with an outlay of Rs 70,125 crore. Option A is wrong because no such halved figure is mentioned anywhere in the scheme review. Option C is wrong because 62,500 is the kilometre target of road length and not a count of habitations. Option D is wrong because it is simply not the figure announced for this phase. Aspirants should also note the long-run achievement quoted at the Chintan Shivir, namely about 8 lakh km of rural roads built under the different phases of PMGSY over the past 25 years.

The correct answer is 25,367 mobile towers, covering 35,771 villages and locations across the country. These projects are funded through the Digital Bharat Nidhi and are meant to carry 4G service into remote and uncovered places that telecom operators had not reached because the commercial case was weak, so the spending bridges a digital divide rather than chasing revenue. The indigenous 4G stack has been deployed by BSNL in the 4G Saturation Project that goes with it. Options A, C and D change the leading digits of the real figure and are the standard trap. Note how easily the two numbers in this item can be swapped: 25,367 is the count of towers and 35,771 is the count of villages and locations covered, and a question may reverse them to see whether a candidate is reading carefully.

The correct answer is December 2026. The Secretary of the Ministry of Cooperation set that deadline for finishing the first phase of computerising Primary Agricultural Credit Societies, and asked in the same breath that audits for the years 2024-25 and 2025-26 be completed by October 2026. Options A, C and D are wrong because none of them was the deadline announced. Candidates should link the deadline with the wider push described at the meeting: states were asked to set up new PACS faster and widen their membership so that District Central Cooperative Banks rest on a stronger base, while cooperative banks were told to invest in cybersecurity, modern core banking systems and digital services to hold their customers.

The same session also took up decentralised grain storage, fertiliser business plans for cooperative societies and farmer friendly financing options such as pledge finance, all of which rest on the record keeping that computerisation is meant to deliver.

The correct answer is 2006. The full name of the law is the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, and the year that goes with it is 2006. It is the statute under which individual forest rights, Community Forest Resource Rights and habitat rights of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups are recognised, and it is the law the Kolkata conference examined State by State. Options A, C and D are years attached to other laws that aspirants often mix up with this one, and none of them belongs to the forest rights statute. A useful memory aid is that the recognition of these rights is always paired with the figure in option B, while the Ministry advisories discussed at the conference, on writing rights into revenue and forest records and on habitat rights, are much more recent. Keep the full title of the Act and its year together, because papers set the question both ways.

The correct answer is bags of wheat. When the Tata truck with a Rajasthan registration number was stopped on the Gandhisagar-Bhanpura road on 9 October 2026 and taken to the CBN office at Garoth for a detailed search, officers found 3,280.72 kg of poppy straw underneath 100 bags of wheat that were being carried as cover cargo. The wheat bags were themselves seized along with the straw and the vehicle. Options B, C and D name fruit crates, cotton bales and cement sacks, none of which figure in this case. It is worth noting that in the other operation, at Neemuch on 5 October 2026, the concealment was different: there the 929.08 kg of poppy straw lay beneath 39 plastic sacks of assorted colours rather than under a grain load.

The correct answer is Botswana. The father of the litter is a male cheetah of Botswanan origin, which is why the Environment Ministry described the five cubs as the beginning of the Botswanan lineage in India and as an addition to the genetic diversity of the growing population. Option A, Namibia, is an attractive distractor because the first batch of cheetahs for the reintroduction effort came from that country, but the paternity in this particular litter was not Namibian. Option B, South Africa, is wrong for the same reason; animals from there were part of earlier consignments, yet the new bloodline announced here is specifically Botswanan. Option D, Kenya, is incorrect because it has not figured as a source country in this programme. A wider gene pool is valuable for a small founder population, so the Botswanan paternity is treated as a milestone in its own right.

The correct answer is 72 days. The Minister said a limit of 72 days has been fixed between sanction and the start of construction, that some states are breaching it, and that a full account would be prepared for those states. He also asked for the tender process to be kept to a timetable and for obstacles such as repeated cancellation of tenders to be sorted out in advance through pre-tender planning, since delay raises the cost of construction material. Options A and B are shorter than the prescribed limit and do not appear in the release. Option D, ninety days, sounds plausible because a three-month window is common in government processes, but the limit set here is tighter. Remember alongside this that maintenance of a road for five years after construction rests with the agency that built it.

The correct answer is state 51 per cent, Department of Telecommunications 49 per cent. The vehicle set up to build and run the zone gives the Madhya Pradesh government the controlling share and the Department of Telecommunications the rest, which makes the project an example of a Centre-state partnership where the state leads on the ground while the Centre funds the first phase. Option A reverses the two partners and is therefore wrong. Option C is wrong because an equal division would leave neither partner with control, and that is not the structure announced. Option D is wrong because no such ratio figures anywhere in the plan. Remember alongside this that the state also gave the land free, the Centre is paying the whole first-phase infrastructure bill, and the zone follows a plug-and-play model similar in working to a Special Economic Zone.

The correct answer is a woodcut panel on the Mahtari Vandan Yojana. The collection places this piece alongside a memento marking the silver jubilee, or Rajat Jayanti, of the State legislative assembly and models representing institutions in the new capital area, so that the State’s present sits next to its older traditions. Option B is wrong because no model of the national legislature was listed among these works. Option C is wrong as well, since no panel on that water scheme was named. Option D is wrong because no replica of that monument appears in the description. The wider point the collection makes is one of continuity, with traditions shaped over generations still finding form in new objects. Note also the sixteen works in all, the lost-wax Dhokra craft older than four thousand years, the extension of bidding to the end of October and the use of the proceeds for cleaning the Ganga.

The correct answer is Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the Union Minister of Rural Development and of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. He addressed the Chintan Shivir and pressed for wider use of digital technologies, GPS-based monitoring and artificial intelligence in field verification, monitoring and timely decision-making, while also seeking faster preparation of Detailed Project Reports, better construction quality and stronger accountability. Option A is wrong because the road transport portfolio is separate and that minister is not named here; PMGSY is run by the Ministry of Rural Development. Option C is wrong because Kamlesh Paswan is the Minister of State for Rural Development, who spoke about delayed works and the five-year maintenance period. Option D is wrong because Rohit Kansal is the Secretary, Rural Development, an officer rather than a minister.

The correct answer is the Samriddh Gram Phygital Services Initiative, an integrated service delivery model that turns rural broadband into usable services. Through Samriddhi Kendras it offers tele-consultation and diagnostics, digital classrooms and skilling, e-governance, banking, soil testing, drone-based agricultural services, employment help and e-commerce under one roof, and it is being piloted at Umri in Madhya Pradesh, Chaurawala in Uttar Pradesh and Narakoduru in Andhra Pradesh. Option A is wrong because Sanchar Saathi is the citizen portal for reporting fraudulent communications and blocking or tracing lost handsets. Option B is wrong because the Amended BharatNet Programme is the fibre rollout, under which 55,780 km of cable had been laid by August 2026. Option D is wrong because the Digital Intelligence Platform is the mechanism for sharing intelligence against cyber fraud.

The correct answer is Dr Ashish Kumar Bhutani, Secretary in the Ministry of Cooperation, who closed the workshop by calling the discussions productive and asking states to move from discussion to implementation. Option A is a tempting distractor, because the ministry functions under Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah and the workshop was held under his leadership, but the concluding remarks came from the Secretary. Option C is wrong, although a presentation by NABARD on a uniform Core Banking Solution platform was appreciated at the session. Option D is wrong as well. The Secretary stressed that one model of cooperative development cannot suit every state, and that successful district level innovations should be documented, repeated and scaled up.

The correct answer is about 25 lakh. The Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs gave the national position as on 31 August 2026, and that is the number of titles handed over to forest dwellers so far. Option D, about 54 lakh, is the number of claims received in all, which is the figure candidates most often swap with the titles figure. Option A, about 11 lakh, is the number of claims still waiting for a decision at one stage or another, concentrated in a few districts of Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Assam. Option B, about 18 lakh, is the number of claims that have been rejected, and the conference asked States to look at those rejections again under the Act and its Rules. Learn the four numbers as one set, claims received, titles given, claims pending and claims rejected, because a question can be set on any one of them.

The correct answer is the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, usually shortened to the NDPS Act. Poppy straw is a narcotic substance covered by this law, so both the Neemuch case and the Mandsaur case were registered under its provisions and all three arrests were made under it. Option A, the Customs Act, applies to smuggled goods crossing the border and is the law used in gold seizure cases, not for narcotics moved within the country. Option C, the Essential Commodities Act, deals with hoarding and the supply of essential goods. Option D, the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, is used against the proceeds of crime and was not the law invoked here. The seizures totalled 4,209.80 kg of poppy straw.

The correct answer is exports, organics and seeds. NCEL is National Cooperative Exports Limited, NCOL is National Cooperative Organics Limited and BBSSL is Bharatiya Beej Sahakari Samiti Limited, the national seed cooperative. At the workshop the Secretary said several states had used these three bodies well, and that they were opening up aggregation of farm produce, access to wider markets and better prices for farmers and cooperative members. Options B, C and D are wrong because they do not match the three abbreviations, even though dairy cooperatives, fisheries, fertiliser business plans and decentralised grain storage were all taken up in separate sessions of the same workshop. Remember the three expansions together, as they are a frequent target for questions.

The correct answer is Bengaluru. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs began this round of regional reviews there, taking up the southern States, and the Kolkata meeting a month later was the second in the series and covered eight eastern and central States. Option A, Hyderabad, is a plausible distractor because Andhra Pradesh figured prominently at the Kolkata conference as a guest State sharing its practices on digitisation of titles, but the State was not the host of either meeting. Option C, Chennai, is wrong: no conference of this series was held there, although Tamil Nadu falls in the southern group that the first meeting covered. Option D, Guwahati, is wrong too, and the clue is that Assam was named at Kolkata as one of the States holding a large share of pending claims, which makes it a participant rather than a host. Remember the order of the two venues.