Uttar Pradesh Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 21–27 September 2026

Both the Department of Food and Public Distribution and the Ministry of Textiles named this as the theme of the current campaign, and described it as an appeal to treat cleanliness as a collective effort and a festival of community involvement.

BioE3 is the government framework named Biotechnology for Economy, Environment and Employment, and the commercial launch of bio-based biodegradable plastic from Polylactic Acid by Balrampur Chini Mills has been taken forward under it.

The Ministry of Rural Development has said that roughly that many rural young people, organised into 2,015 batches across 24 States and Union Territories, are expected to start their training in the opening month of the rollout.

The plant in Uttar Pradesh takes in that quantity of organic waste each day and yields about twenty-one tonnes of bio-CNG, along with twenty-eight tonnes of good quality compost that goes to farmers nearby.

The state's annual exports stand at roughly Rs 2 lakh crore at present, and the stated goal is to take that figure to Rs 5 lakh crore by 2030, which means more than doubling the value of goods sold abroad.

Amit Shah, who holds the Home Affairs portfolio along with the Ministry of Cooperation, addressed the inaugural ceremony of the centenary year celebrations organised in New Delhi to mark the birth anniversary of the former Vishwa Hindu Parishad president Ashok Singhal, with several dignitaries present.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting release states plainly that the campaign is being organised jointly by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and that department, which together cover urban and rural sanitation.

The pilot scale research facility of 100 TPA for Polylactic Acid and co-polymers is to be built inside the integrated manufacturing complex of Balrampur Chini Mills Limited at Kumbhi in Uttar Pradesh, while the launch event itself was held at the Department of Biotechnology in New Delhi.

The announcement on the rollout of DDU-GKY 2.0 came from that ministry, which is also the body pressing States and Union Territories to allot targets to their implementing agencies and holding review meetings with them in phases.

Adarsh Gaushala stands at Laltipara and is the city's largest cowshed, home to more than ten thousand cattle. Its compressed bio-gas plant of 100 tonnes per day opened in October 2024, spread over five acres, cost 31 crore rupees and was developed with Indian Oil Corporation.

Greater Noida also figures in the speech for another reason worth remembering, the expansion of a large robotics manufacturing facility there, which the Minister offered as an illustration of modern industrial growth in the state.

Eleven Shri Ram Stambhs were inaugurated digitally at the programme, and these pillars commemorate the route taken by Shri Ram during his exile so that the message of the Ram Van Gaman Path reaches later generations.

The Ministry of Textiles stated that the campaign is being celebrated across all its organisations over this period, and the activities reported by other departments, such as the Swachhata pledge taken on the opening day, fit the same window.

Its grant of Rs 75 crore supports the pilot scale research facility of 100 TPA for Polylactic Acid and advanced co-polymers that Balrampur Chini Mills will operate at Kumbhi in Uttar Pradesh.

The Ministry of Rural Development has fixed that day as the outer limit by which States and Union Territories are to finish allotting targets to their Project Implementation Agencies, so that batches can actually begin.

At the Bowenpally Vegetable Market roughly ten tonnes of vegetable and fruit waste is collected each day, and since an on-site biogas plant came up almost all of it is used rather than sent to landfill.

Expanding exports, drawing in investment and gaining easier access to markets abroad were all described as contributions towards that goal for Uttar Pradesh.

The pillars mark the route taken by Shri Ram during his period of exile, and the stated purpose of inaugurating them is that they carry the message of the Ram Van Gaman Path and the virtues of Shri Ram to generations to come.

Scientific management of municipal solid waste has been a core objective of the mission since that launch, and as the mission grew, organic waste came to be treated as a resource for clean energy rather than as rubbish.