Uttar Pradesh Current Affairs Quiz: 18 October 2026

It is a science and technology organisation under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, and it held the conclave on AI for Health and Assistive Technologies jointly with the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship of IIT (BHU) on the institute's campus at Varanasi.

The Namo Bharat regional rapid rail corridor runs from Delhi to Meerut through Ghaziabad and measures 82 km end to end.

The Department of School Education and Literacy has fixed that day for a drive in schools across the country to raise awareness about electronic waste and to collect it, as part of Special Campaign 6.

Shri S. Krishnan spoke in that capacity, holding that artificial intelligence can make health care easier to reach, strengthen clinical decision-making and improve the delivery of services, particularly for communities with little access to health facilities.

On that day the Prime Minister dedicated the full Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor to the nation, and Meerut Metro was handed over at the same time.

The school level work under Special Campaign 6 is carried out under their aegis. Schools across the country have taken up cleaning drives on their campuses so that classrooms and grounds stay hygienic, and have run e-waste awareness and collection drives aimed at both pupils and teachers.

Shri Arvind Kumar, Director General of STPI, said at the conclave that the organisation has had a pivotal part in the growth of the country's industry in information technology and IT-enabled services since that year, and that the same success can now be repeated in artificial intelligence through innovation and…

It built and runs the Namo Bharat service and it organised Namo Bharat Diwas in New Delhi, where its Managing Director Shalabh Goel welcomed the Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs and Power, Manohar Lal.

To mark International e-Waste Day, which falls on 14 October, the Department of School Education and Literacy put up a mural made out of 50 kg of discarded electronics that school pupils had gathered, and installed e-waste bins alongside it at Kartavya Bhavan 2.

NCRTC is developing a captive solar power plant of this size, and it also runs a programme called Solar on Track, so that the corridor costs less to operate and places a lighter burden on the environment.