Rajasthan Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 12–18 October 2026

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.

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.

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…

BHARAT TULIP is the brand the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has built to widen the market for goods made by target-group artisans, taking them to digital platforms in India and abroad.

Payment to a Project Implementing Agency, which may itself be an eligible captive employer, is structured this way under DDU-GKY 2.0, and each instalment is linked to a milestone settled in advance.

The tribunal allowed the counter-claims of the National Highways Authority of India to this extent as principal.