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

The correct answer is Swachhata Mein Sahbhag, Swachh Bharat, Viksit Bharat. 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. Option B is wrong because that phrase is not the theme announced for this edition. Option C is wrong because although it sounds close to the language used in such campaigns, it is not the theme named in these releases. Option D is wrong because it is a general slogan and not the theme declared for this year. Themes of national campaigns change every year, so aspirants should always link the theme to the year and to the campaign name together.

The correct answer is Economy, Environment and Employment. 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 Minister said the framework lets the country push economic growth, environmental sustainability and job creation at the same time, which is exactly why those three words sit in the name. Option A is wrong because energy and ecology, though related themes, are not the words used in the framework. Option C is wrong because education and export belong to other policy vocabularies and do not appear in this scheme name. Option D is wrong because ethanol and enzymes describe products and tools of biotechnology rather than the goals the framework is named after, even though the DBT Secretary spoke of a value chain beyond ethanol.

The correct answer is about 70,000. 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. Option A is simply a smaller figure with nothing in the announcement to support it. Option D confuses two different numbers: the larger figure refers to the targets that 24 States and Union Territories have already allotted to Project Implementation Agencies over more than 1,200 projects, which is a target for allocation and not the count of trainees walking into a classroom in the first month. Option C is likewise unsupported by anything in the ministry's statement. The distinction between a target allotted on paper and a batch actually commencing is exactly the sort of fine point that examiners like to test, so keep the trainee figure, the batch count and the number of States and Union Territories together in memory as one set.

The correct answer is 343 tonnes. 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. Its multi-feedstock design accepts wet waste, paddy straw, cattle dung and poultry litter, which is what lets it give crop residue a paying use instead of leaving it to be burnt. Options A at 143 tonnes, B at 243 tonnes and D at 443 tonnes are near misses built by changing the leading digit, a trap that catches a candidate who remembers only the last two digits of the figure. Aspirants should also hold on to the linked numbers for this plant: daily wet-waste supply has risen from seven or eight tonnes to about 125 tonnes, piped gas is expected to reach roughly 45,000 households, and annual emissions are expected to fall by about 57,000 tonnes.

The correct answer is 2030. 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. The Union Commerce and Industry Minister spelt out the target while addressing the UP International Trade Show at Greater Noida, linking it to the wider market access that India's free trade agreements are creating for exporters. Options A and B, 2027 and 2028, are too early and no such deadline was announced for them. Option D, 2035, is a later round year that is often attached to other plans and is wrong here. Candidates should store the pair of numbers together, the present export value and the target value, along with the deadline year.

The correct answer is the Union Home Minister. 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. Option A is wrong because the Prime Minister did not inaugurate this ceremony. Option C is wrong because the President was not the one who addressed the inaugural function. Option D is wrong because the Culture portfolio, although it deals with commemorations, was not the one represented here. For examination purposes the safest note is to link the occasion, the person commemorated and the minister who inaugurated it in a single line, with the venue New Delhi added.

The correct answer is the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation under the Ministry of Jal Shakti. 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. Option A is wrong because rural development is a separate department and was not named as an organiser. Option C is wrong because the environment ministry has no stated role in running this campaign. Option D is wrong because health and family welfare is not among the organisers, even though health camps are held for Safai Mitras during the campaign. The urban plus rural pairing is the logic to remember, since a national cleanliness campaign must reach both kinds of settlement.

The correct answer is Uttar Pradesh. 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. Option B is wrong because Maharashtra, although a large sugar producing state, is not the site named in this announcement. Option C is wrong because Karnataka hosts many biotechnology firms but has no role in this particular facility. Option D is wrong because Bihar is not mentioned in the release at all. Aspirants should link the site Kumbhi with Uttar Pradesh, the company with Balrampur Chini Mills, the grant with BIRAC under the Department of Biotechnology and the material with PLA.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Rural Development. 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. DDU-GKY is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme offering placement-linked skill training to poor rural youth, and its rural focus is the reason it sits with the rural development ministry rather than elsewhere. Option A is a plausible distractor because skilling is that ministry's broad remit, but this particular scheme is not run by it. Option B is wrong because employment policy and labour welfare, not the delivery of this training programme, fall to that ministry. Option D is wrong because school and higher education are outside the scope of a placement-linked vocational scheme of this kind. Candidates should also note the course length of 3 months to 12 months and the requirement that courses be aligned with the National Skill Qualification Framework.

The correct answer is Gwalior, in Madhya Pradesh. 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. It is also the state's first such plant designed to take vegetable and fruit waste from markets and homes along with dung, and it converts 100 tonnes of dung a day into two tonnes of gas and ten to fifteen tonnes of dry bio-manure. Option A, Bhopal, is the state capital but not the site. Option C, Indore, is widely known for cleanliness rankings, which is exactly why it tempts a guess here. Option D, Jabalpur, is another large city of the same state and has no link to this facility.

The correct answer is Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh, where the UP International Trade Show was held with six partner countries taking part alongside hundreds of delegates and exhibitors, and with buyer-seller meetings arranged to connect producers from the state with overseas buyers. 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. Option A, Lucknow, is the state capital and a frequent venue for investor summits, which makes it the most tempting wrong choice. Option C, Kanpur, is an old industrial centre of the state, and option D, Varanasi, hosts many national events, but neither is the venue of this trade show.

The correct answer is 11. 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. Options A and B, seven and nine, are lower counts and do not match what was inaugurated. Option D, fifteen, is higher than the actual number. The figure is the most quotable detail of the ceremony, and it is usually asked together with what the pillars stand for, so both halves belong in the same note. Candidates should also remember the other initiatives presented at the event, such as the Ganga Aarti at Prayagraj and the donation of artificial limbs at Ayodhya.

The correct answer is 17 September to 2 October. 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. The closing date is easy to remember because it falls on Gandhi Jayanti, the day the Swachh Bharat Mission itself is associated with. Option A is wrong because the campaign does not begin at the start of the month. Option B is wrong because that window belongs to a different period altogether and does not match the reported pledge dates. Option D is wrong because the campaign ends, rather than begins, in the first days of October. Fixing the start and close dates together is the safest way to answer such questions.

The correct answer is the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council, known as BIRAC, which functions under the Department of Biotechnology. 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. Option A is wrong because NITI Aayog is a policy think tank and does not hand out research grants of this kind. Option B is wrong because the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research runs its own laboratory network and was not named in this launch. Option D is wrong because the Technology Development Board finances commercialisation of indigenous technology through a separate route and has no part in this particular grant. Dr Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale, Secretary of the Department of Biotechnology, is also the Chairman of BIRAC.

The correct answer is 31 October 2026. 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. Option A is wrong because it falls before the month in which training is itself meant to open, which would leave no room for the allocations the ministry is still chasing. Options C and D are wrong because both push the deadline well past the start of training and would defeat the purpose of the ministry's push for speed; it has called this a crucial phase for action by the States and is holding review meetings in phases precisely to avoid such slippage. For the examination, link the deadline with the two other dates in this story, namely the month in which batches open and the two-year cycle of 2026-28 for which more than 9 lakh targets have been allocated across all 31 participating States and Union Territories.

The correct answer is Hyderabad. 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. The plant makes about 400 to 500 units of electricity and 30 kg of biofuel daily, which run the streetlights, stalls, administrative building and water supply network, while the biofuel goes to the market's kitchen and to a generator that works wholly on biogas. The power bill has come down by about half from roughly three lakh rupees a month, and five more plants have been funded at Gudimalkapur, Gaddiannaram, Erragadda, Alwal and Saroornagar. Options A, B and D are large cities in other states and none of them was named for this model, so they only test whether the candidate has tied the market's name to the right city.

The correct answer is a one trillion dollar economy. Expanding exports, drawing in investment and gaining easier access to markets abroad were all described as contributions towards that goal for Uttar Pradesh. Option D, a five trillion dollar economy, is the strongest distractor because that figure is widely associated with the national economy rather than with a single state, and candidates often mix the two up. Option A, 500 billion dollars, and option C, two trillion dollars, are invented sizes. The supporting facts to hold alongside this are the export path from about Rs 2 lakh crore a year to Rs 5 lakh crore by 2030, the six partner countries at the trade show, and the state's build-up in defence, semiconductors, electronics and robotics backed by expressways, airports and industrial parks.

The correct answer is the Ram Van Gaman Path. 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. Option A borrows the name of the Ram Setu movement, which was separately commemorated among the service initiatives presented at the ceremony but is not what the pillars mark. Options C and D name routes that were not mentioned in connection with the pillars. Aspirants should hold the number eleven, the word Stambh for pillar, and the Ram Van Gaman Path together, since a question will usually supply two of the three and ask for the missing one.

The correct answer is October 2014. 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. The waste-to-energy work described at Prayagraj, Gwalior, Hyderabad and Gandhinagar all falls under the urban arm of the mission in its second phase. Option B, August 2014, is close enough in the same year to catch a hasty reader, but it is the wrong month. Option C, October 2015, keeps the right month and moves the year by one, the commonest form of trap in date questions. Option D, April 2016, matches neither. A helpful anchor is that cleanliness is tied to the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, which falls on the second of October, so the month of the launch is easy to fix in memory.