Uttar Pradesh Current Affairs Quiz: October 2026

He has taken over as Secretary of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the ministry that handles forests, wildlife, pollution control and climate policy for the country.

That is the title under which the People's Plan Campaign for the year is launched when Special Gram Sabhas assemble on the second of October, and under it every Gram Panchayat draws up its development plan for the next financial year through participatory, evidence-based planning.

The municipal corporation of this city in Uttar Pradesh has registered for an international carbon credit project verified by the United Nations and has been accredited under the Verified Carbon Standard, which is supported by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

That many Special Gram Sabhas were scheduled across the country on the GPDP Portal and the Panchayat NIRNAY Portal for Gandhi Jayanti, and they were attended by residents, elected representatives, Panchayat functionaries and officials.

Jal Arpan is described as a key reform under that mission, and it places rural drinking water systems in the hands of the communities that use them by handing completed schemes to gram panchayats and to Village Water and Sanitation Committees.

The condolence message on the veteran actor's passing described his contribution to Hindi and Marathi cinema as immense, and it is this pairing that identifies his body of work.

The correct answer is the Union Jal Shakti Minister, C. R. Paatil, who presided over the meeting in New Delhi.

The 94th edition of the ride, held in Varanasi, was built around this theme, which joins the weekly fitness drive to the effort to keep young people away from substance abuse and sets both in the frame of a developed India.

The choice of venue matters because the same campus houses IIT (BHU), where the students felicitated for clearing the engineering entrance had won admission.

The 94th edition of the weekly cycling drive was held in Varanasi, where the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports led the ride.

Yuva Sangam is the youth exchange carried out under that programme, and its seventh phase is being implemented by the Department of Higher Education in the Ministry of Education with the aim of strengthening national integration and building contact between young people from different regions.

A team of seventeen climbers of the Indian Coast Guard reached the summit of Mount Mukut at that height on 7 October 2026, working through extreme weather on the way up.

The 53rd monthly CPGRAMS report brought out by DARPG for September 2026 puts the number of grievances closed by Central Ministries and Departments at 2,38,579 for the month.

The Ministry of Jal Shakti review records that compliance among grossly polluting industries in the Ganga basin climbed from 39% in 2017 to 86% in 2025, a steady gain produced by annual inspection, independent technical assessment and sector charters.

The Government of India constituted the committee under his chairmanship to examine the issues raised by sugarcane farmers and to recommend suitable measures.

The campaign was launched by the Defence Minister in New Delhi and is the largest fundraising effort ever undertaken by any Indian Institute of Technology.

The ministry decided against a uniform nationwide drive and instead identified the judicial districts where the number of pending cases is largest, settling on one hundred of them.

The Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Bhupender Yadav, announced on 15 October 2026 that the national tally of Ramsar sites had reached 103 once Sukhna Wetland in Chandigarh and Sauj Jheel in Uttar Pradesh were taken into the list.

The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, written short as DDWS, is a department of that ministry, and it ran the thirteenth edition of the District Collectors' Peyjal Samvad over video conferencing, with Secretary Ashok K.K.

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment stated that this many villages had been declared Adarsh Grams under the scheme by that date, reflecting its work on infrastructure, basic services and quality of life in Scheduled Caste-majority villages.

Its scientists traced past environmental conditions at Karela Lake using stable isotopes, vegetation changes and archaeological and sedimentary records, and built a record stretching back about four thousand six hundred years.

At the 10th meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee, held in New Delhi on 16 October 2026 under the chairmanship of Urban Development Secretary Satendra Singh, over 1.93 lakh additional houses were cleared under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Urban 2.0.

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.

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence seized 591.3 kg of ganja from a truck in Uttar Pradesh in an operation carried out during 17 and 18 October 2026.

Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh said the country's atomic ambitions have to be read against its longer development goals and its clean energy commitments, and named this figure as the nuclear power capacity India is targeting by 2047.

The Namami Gange Programme was launched in that year as an integrated conservation mission with the twin objectives of effective abatement of pollution and the conservation and rejuvenation of the National River Ganga.

The fifth edition of the programme, to be held from 28 November to 12 December 2026, is designed around that classical Tamil text and aims to bring its ethical and moral wisdom closer to students and young learners through classroom engagement, multilingual resources and public outreach.

Stage-I of the Graded Response Action Plan is the stage meant for poor air, and it was invoked across the National Capital Region after Delhi's daily average index was recorded at 244 at 2 PM and then at 245 by 4 PM, both of which sit inside that band.

Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah attended the ceremony at which 10 Yamuna rejuvenation projects were inaugurated and foundation stones were laid for 33 more, and the schemes together carry this total cost.

The Centre for Development of Telematics signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi to establish its sixth Centre of Excellence, and the signing was followed by the formal opening of the centre on the campus.

Shram Samvad is a 90-day outreach initiative through which the Ministry of Labour and Employment is undertaking district-level engagement across 316 districts in all 36 States and Union Territories, with special attention to industrial clusters.

In the review chaired by Union Jal Shakti Minister Shri C. R. Patil, the status of the Ken-Betwa Link Project was taken up, and the discussion covered the link canal and the Daudhan Dam.

The sum is shared between the two tiers of government, and that is exactly why the other options are placed here as traps.

The Ganga Flood Control Board is chaired by the Union Minister of Jal Shakti, and its 19th meeting was accordingly presided over by C. R. Patil at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on 27 October 2026.

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence found the secret laboratory in a remote village of Jalaun district in Uttar Pradesh and raided it in the early hours of 29 October 2026, with the state Anti-Terrorist Squad giving operational help.

The programme was held at IIA Bhavan in the Dadanagar Industrial Area of Kanpur, and was organised jointly by the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the Labour Department of the Government of Uttar Pradesh.

Om Birla, who holds that office, attended the Shatabdi Samaroh organised by the Gayatri Parivar in New Delhi, paid tribute to Acharya Shriram Sharma and Mata Bhagwati Devi, and released the commemorative postage stamp brought out in her honour.

Narendra Bhooshan is an Indian Administrative Service officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, and he belongs to the batch of the year 1992.

The campaign itself is named for the current round, but the plan a Gram Panchayat prepares in it is for the financial year that follows, which is how village planning is meant to work: the Sabha decides priorities well before the money for that year is allocated.

The facility at Saligao is operated by the Goa Waste Management Corporation and stands on land that was once used as a garbage dump.

The correct answer is Sabki Yojana, Sabka Vikas, the title of the People's Plan Campaign for the year, under which Panchayats will prepare their Panchayat Development Plans for the financial year that follows.

That many Har Ghar Jal certificates were generated for eligible gram panchayats and villages, and the issue of these certificates in regional languages through the Jal Arpan module was itself described as a first.

The Prime Minister's Office issued a condolence message on 8 October 2026 on the passing of the veteran actor, whose work in Hindi and Marathi cinema was called immense.

The correct answer is 527 projects worth 43,266 crore rupees, the position as of August 2026, with 368 projects already completed.

The ride went from Namo Ghat to the Diksha Mandap of Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, and both of those landmarks are in Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh; the start was at 6 in the morning.

The correct answer is Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, the Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, who addressed the convention and asked young people to become ambassadors of a developed India.

The edition in Varanasi was built around that theme, which links physical fitness to the wider campaign for a drug-free generation.

The delegation from Uttarakhand, for which Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University is the nodal institute, travelled to West Bengal and is being hosted there by IIT Kharagpur.