Rajasthan Current Affairs Quiz: October 2026

The two captive-bred birds were moved from a soft-release facility at this park in the Thar desert, with the Union Environment Minister present at the site and the Chief Minister of Rajasthan joining by video conference during Wildlife Week 2026.

National Anti-Drug Addiction Day falls on 2 October, the birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and the Central Bureau of Narcotics tied its Rajasthan programmes to Gandhi’s message of self-discipline and social responsibility.

The Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, freed two male Great Indian Bustards at that spot, with the Rajasthan Minister for Forest and Environment, Sanjay Sharma, and senior officers of the Union and State governments present.

The correct answer is Nitin Gadkari, the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, who inaugurated the conclave at Tent City 2 near the Statue of Unity at Ekta Nagar in the Narmada district of Gujarat.

Speaking at the inauguration of Windergy India 2026 in Chennai, the Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy put installed wind capacity at that level as on 30 September 2026, and said the country is firmly placed to cross 100 GW of wind capacity by 2030.

Tarang Shakti is an air exercise, and the second edition was hosted by the Indian Air Force from 26 September to 12 October 2026, with the Defence Minister addressing the participants at Air Force Station Jodhpur.

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 correct answer is Gaya in Bihar, which secured first position among the best-performing districts when the scheme completed its first year.

The Captive Employer CXO Meet at the Rajasthan International Centre in Jaipur was held by the Ministry of Rural Development along with the Rajasthan Skill and Livelihoods Development Corporation, and its subject was the Captive Employment window of DDU-GKY 2.0.

He inaugurated the festival at the Khadi and Village Industries Commission's Central Office in Vile Parle, Mumbai, with the stated aim of carrying the Prime Minister's call of 'Har Ghar Swadeshi, Ghar-Ghar Swadeshi' and 'Vocal for Local' to younger buyers.

The dispute arose from the six-laning of the Chittorgarh-Udaipur section of this highway in Rajasthan, a stretch of 93.5 km.

This is the estimated cumulative figure for merchandise and services exports taken together during the first six months of the financial year.

The nine-day Shilp Samagam Mela 2026 is laid out at the Mysuru Dasara Exhibition Grounds, and the Union Secretary of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Sudhansh Pant, went round its stalls during a two-day official visit to the city.

India filled all three places on the podium in this event: Sumit won the gold medal, Mahendra Gurjar took the silver with a Games Record and Sandip Sanjay Sargar claimed the bronze, also with a Games Record.

The Ministry of Tribal Affairs convened the third and concluding conference of the regional review series in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, where senior officials of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Rajasthan and the host Union Territory reviewed progress under the Act.

In October 2026 four male Great Indian Bustards were set free inside Desert National Park, close to Sam village in the Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan.

C. R. Paatil holds that office and is Chairman of the RCNCA; he presided over its 15th meeting on 27 October 2026, held through video conferencing.

The Watershed Development Component of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana sits with that department, which is why its Secretary, Shri Dilip Kumar, inspected the works in the villages of Varude, Gulani and Wafgaon in Pune district and chaired the state review meeting.

The bird is the State bird of Rajasthan, and the Chief Minister called the day of its rewilding a day of pride for the whole State, noting that the species is part of the cultural heritage of the Thar and has been brought back from the brink of extinction.

The release on the Rajasthan Unit’s anti-addiction programmes was issued under the Ministry of Finance, which is the parent ministry of the Central Bureau of Narcotics; the bureau licenses and supervises legal opium poppy cultivation.

The two conservation-breeding facilities at Sam and Ramdevra together hold 97 Great Indian Bustards, and that total is made up of two streams of birds.

The motto is not decorative: one of the thematic sessions is devoted to PM GatiShakti and integrated infrastructure planning, so the slogan and the agenda match.

The 8th edition of the global wind energy conference opened there on 8 October 2026 and ran from 7 to 9 October, and the choice of city fits the role Tamil Nadu plays in wind generation; the state Minister for Energy Resources and Law, C. T. R. Nirmal Kumar, attended…

The air forces that brought aircraft to the exercise were those of Australia, Bangladesh, France, Germany, Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates and the United States of America — seven friendly foreign countries in all.

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 scheme was designed for one hundred districts selected on three measures: low agricultural productivity, low cropping intensity and limited disbursement of agricultural credit.

That is the number of rural young people trained under the scheme to date, as disclosed at the Captive Employer CXO Meet held in Jaipur on 15 October 2026.

The break-up is worth remembering because questions are often set on it: 36 are Khadi units, 33 are units linked to the Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme, and the remaining 08 belong to village industries and other schemes.

The tribunal that examined the claims and counter-claims flowing from the concession agreement for the Chittorgarh-Udaipur six-laning project was constituted under SAROD and had three members.

The Department of Commerce organised the outreach programme in the Rajasthan capital to build awareness of the benefits available under India free trade agreements and to help exporters use them in practice.

The Mysuru fair carries 83 stalls, of which 80 have gone to artisans, and 37 of those artisans are women.

He defended the title he already held in the Men's Club Throw F51 and set a fresh Games Record while doing so, which is why the Prime Minister called the achievement a source of pride for the nation.

The Ministry reported that about 54 lakh claims had been received across the country and that 43.56 lakh of them, which is this share, had been disposed of by that date.

Its annual progress report for 2016-17 recorded that the population of the Great Indian Bustard had fallen by three quarters over the thirty years before that report, a decline driven by the loss of its grassland habitat and by pressures created by people, and made harder to reverse by the…

These are the four party States to the Narmada arrangement, and their Chief Ministers took part in the 15th RCNCA meeting: Bhupendra Patel, Mohan Yadav, Bhajan Lal Sharma and Devendra Fadnavis respectively.

The Secretary of the Department of Land Resources asked that villages under the Khed Project in Pune district be transformed into water-secure and self-reliant communities along those lines.

The recovery programme is a joint effort of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the Rajasthan Forest Department and the Wildlife Institute of India, with technical collaboration from the International Fund for Houbara Conservation and funding support from National CAMPA.

The student session at the University of Kota was organised by CBN Kota under this campaign, with Deputy Narcotics Commissioner Naresh Bundel as chief guest and the university Registrar Murlidhar Pratihar present; participants ended the session by taking the Nasha Mukti Pledge.

The Bustard Recovery Programme is a joint effort of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the Rajasthan Forest Department and the Wildlife Institute of India, with technical collaboration from the International Fund for Houbara Conservation and funding from National CAMPA.

The venue is worth remembering in full, because questions are set on the district as readily as on the state, and Ekta Nagar is the settlement beside the Statue of Unity that now hosts a steady stream of national conferences.

These were the three countries with dedicated pavilions at the Chennai event, which also brought together about 400 exhibitors representing more than 20 countries and 500 delegates.

Air Force Station Jodhpur, in Rajasthan, was where the Defence Minister spoke to the aircrews and ground teams of the second edition of Tarang Shakti.

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.

The campaign is to be organised across all states from 22 October to 30 November 2026, and the minister asked state governments and the authorities concerned to take part actively so that it reaches farmers.

The Ministry of Rural Development has reserved that share of the targets of DDU-GKY 2.0 for Captive Employers, under whom a company trains rural candidates and absorbs them into its own workforce.

The Chairman said the podcast was launched to carry the Prime Minister's vision of Viksit Bharat@2047 and 'Vocal for Local' to younger listeners, through conversations about Khadi's heritage, innovation, modern fashion and youth entrepreneurship.

This is the length of the Chittorgarh-Udaipur stretch of NH-76 in Rajasthan that was to be widened to six lanes under the concession agreement with Uchit Expressway Private Limited.

The presentation by the Joint Director General of Foreign Trade at Jaipur placed India eighth among exporters of gems and jewellery worldwide, with a share of 2.9 per cent in a global market worth about one trillion dollars, and noted that the recently concluded agreements grant immediate duty-free access across…

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Nimisha Chakkungalparambil Suresh finished second in this event and the Prime Minister said that her dedication and hard work had brought another proud moment for Indian para athletics, wishing her well for future competitions.