Madhya Pradesh Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 12–18 October 2026

Both varieties were bred at this institute, which functions under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, and it was the institute that organised the Soybean Harvest Day on 9 October 2026 at which their yield potential was assessed.

Programmes under the Seva Sankalp Abhiyan are being held across the country to mark the completion of 25 years of service and dedication by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, first as the Chief Minister of a State and afterwards as Prime Minister of India.

The scheme is a Central Sector Scheme run by the Department of School Education and Literacy for meritorious students of economically weaker families, and the money is meant to keep a child in school rather than leaving after the eighth class.

The committee approved five Strategic Investment Plans of that combined value for ITI clusters spread across Maharashtra, Odisha and Jammu and Kashmir.

The Union Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development performed the foundation ceremony for forty-six village roads sanctioned under this rural roads programme during his visit to Sanchi, and said better roads would make movement easier for villagers.

The correct answer is 22 October to 30 November 2026, the window announced for the campaign in the review meeting chaired by the Union Agriculture Minister.

The youth dialogue was held to mark the completion of one hundred and fifty glorious years of Vande Mataram, and the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare joined it at Smart City Park in Bhopal, where he planted saplings with young people drawn from seven states.

The sessions promoted prevention of drug use, a healthy way of living and the wider goal of a drug free country.

This is the figure for the country's average soybean productivity at present, and it is the benchmark against which the new reading of roughly 20 quintals per hectare from NRC 268 and NRC 270 is being judged.

The camp at Jagdalpur ran from 5 to 7 October 2026 and benefited that many persons with disabilities, and more than 1,570 of the beneficiaries were from Bastar alone, a figure the Home Minister described as a measure of what the district has endured.

The correct answer is 31 October 2026, the closing date for registering applications for that academic year.

The Kataka cluster in Odisha was approved with a Strategic Investment Plan in partnership with the foundation, and the plan is meant to strengthen infrastructure, bring in new-age training programmes and deepen industry linkages so that training matches the skill needs of the region.

The Minister announced that a pilot would begin in these two districts with the goal of connecting every family in every village to at least one source of livelihood, so that the villages concerned can become free of poverty.

The correct answer is 4,150 teams, the figure set in the plan placed before the meeting for the Krishi Vigyan Kendras and the Agricultural Technology Management Agency taken together.

The correct answer is Smart City Park, Bhopal, where the plantation and the open dialogue with the young took place during the programme marking the anniversary of Vande Mataram.

The Bureau is usually associated in the public mind with enforcement against narcotics, so option A looks tempting, but the home ministry is not the parent of this particular organisation.

He holds both posts, Secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education and Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, and it was he who welcomed the early figures from the two varieties.

The Home Minister said more than 500 security camps were established in the region and that over 200 of them will be turned into these service centres, so that officials of the Central and Chhattisgarh governments will now sit where security personnel once sat to protect the people, laying the…

It was led by the Economic Adviser of the department, Ms A. Srija, and attended by the Joint Director of the Rashtriya Shiksha Kendra, who also serves as the State Nodal Officer for the scheme in that state, along with roughly forty District Nodal Officers and five Institute Nodal Officers…

The scheme's purpose is contained in its name: it upgrades government Industrial Training Institutes so that they become modern, industry-aligned and future-ready skilling institutions, and it works through Strategic Investment Plans drawn up jointly by state governments, industry partners and the institutes themselves.

A recent survey showed that this many more houses are required in the Sanchi assembly segment, and the Minister assured that surveyed families living in kuchcha houses would be helped to build permanent homes, since providing pucca houses to the poor is a priority of his department.

The correct answer is Dr M. L. Jat, the Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, who attended the virtual review meeting.

The volunteers who met the Minister belonged to this platform, and he described it as a large one for preparing the creative strength of youth for the building of a developed India, adding that its object is to make the young good citizens who work for the country and society…

The programme at the CM Rise Government School in Jawad was organised in association with the Brahma Kumaris of Neemuch, and the office of the District Opium Officer at Garoth also worked with the same organisation for the session at the Sanskar Valley Higher Secondary School.

Research and trials carried out across the country by the ICAR-National Soybean Research Institute and under this coordinated project indicate that a yield of 15 to 20 quintals per hectare can be reached by adopting improved varieties together with appropriate production technologies, and that favourable conditions may lift output to…

Along with that total the Home Minister listed the rehabilitation work that followed: bank accounts were opened for 7,328 surrendered Naxalites who had none, 1,620 people received reward money, 7,882 got incentives, 455 were given jobs and 129 were allotted land.

These were listed among the chief themes of the campaign, along with improving soil health, climate-resilient agriculture and the promotion of oilseeds and pulses.

The correct answer is the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who attended the youth dialogue and planted saplings with the participants.