CTET Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 7–13 September 2026

The correct answer is Rs 12,773 crore. The release states that more than 1.44 crore Scheduled Caste students have benefited under the Pre-Matric and Post-Matric Scholarship Schemes and that scholarships amounting to Rs 12,773 crore have been disbursed to support their education. Option A is the most dangerous distractor because that amount does appear in the release, but it belongs to a different group: more than 1.01 crore students of the Other Backward Classes and the Economically Backward Classes received assistance of Rs 2,445.05 crore under the same pre-matric and post-matric schemes. The two pairs should be memorised together as pairs, so that the beneficiary count and the amount are never separated. Options B and D are figures close enough to the correct one to catch a candidate working from a hazy memory, but neither appears in the release.

The correct answer is Ahmedabad. The Commission held the fifth conference in the series there, and the participants were students and teachers drawn from schools, colleges and universities across Gujarat. Options A, B and D are all wrong for this question because each city hosted one of the four earlier conferences in the same series: Patna in Bihar, Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, Chennai in Tamil Nadu and Margao in Goa. Questions in this series are usually set on the order of the host cities, so learn the four earlier ones as a group and attach the fifth to Gujarat. Note also that the Chief Election Commissioner met Booth Level Officers of the state on the same day and praised their work in the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls.

The correct answer is Ayurveda for a Healthier Tomorrow, announced at the curtain raiser held in New Delhi. The ministry explained that the theme is meant to join the country's inheritance in Ayurveda to the health needs of the years ahead, which is why the word tomorrow sits in it. The remaining three options are invented phrases built from words that sound like they belong to an Ayush campaign, and this is the standard way a theme question is set. Note that the theme of a day changes with each edition, so a candidate must fix the edition number, the year and the theme together rather than singly. Here the edition is the eleventh, the year is 2026, the main celebration falls on 23 September 2026 at Nagpur in Maharashtra, and the organiser is the Ministry of Ayush. The three focus areas were integrative healthcare, evidence and research, and community wellbeing.

The correct answer is Hamari Anganwadi Hamari Jimmedari. This is the central theme of the nutrition month that begins on 9 September 2026 at the Rudraksh centre in Varanasi, and it calls upon every citizen to take shared ownership of the Anganwadi centre, described as part of the largest childcare network in the world. Option A is a slogan long associated with nutrition campaigns in the country and is therefore the most attractive distractor, but it is not the theme of this edition. Option C names the approach that links nutrition with early learning at Anganwadi centres; cognitive development is indeed one of the five priorities of this edition, yet it is a priority and not the theme. Option D is a general phrase of the kind used in government messaging and does not appear as the theme here. In the examination hall, tie the edition number, the year and the theme together, because the question is usually set on that pairing.

The correct answer is Varanasi, where the Ministry of Women and Child Development launched the campaign at the Rudraksh International Cooperation and Convention Centre. The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the Union Minister for Women and Child Development, the Minister of State in that ministry and the state minister for women welfare were all present. Option A, New Delhi, is the natural guess for any national campaign launch and therefore the strongest distractor. Option B, Lucknow, is the capital of Uttar Pradesh, so a candidate who correctly recalls the state but not the city will choose it. Option D, Prayagraj, is another well known city of the same state. The safest anchor is the venue itself, the Rudraksh centre, which is in Varanasi, and questions on this campaign very often ask for the venue together with the theme.

The correct answer is from May to December. Under the Scheme for Residential Education for Students in High Schools in Targeted Areas, the annual examination schedule of the National Entrance Test for SHRESHTA has been advanced from May to December. The purpose given in the release is practical: an earlier test lets counselling and admission be completed in time, keeps the process aligned with the academic calendar, and reduces both delay and the number of students who drop out while waiting. Option D reverses the two months and is the classic trap in questions of this kind, so read the direction of the change carefully; the test now happens earlier in the cycle, not later. Options A and C name months that do not appear in the release at all. Candidates should also note the full form of SHRESHTA, since examiners ask for it as often as they ask for the reform itself.

The correct answer is Learn Democracy. Lead Democracy. The release says ELC 2.0 carries that tagline and reimagines Electoral Literacy Clubs as structured, visible and digitally enabled platforms across schools, colleges and universities, encouraging young and first-time voters to understand democracy and take part in it meaningfully. It leverages the ECINET platform, which provides every election-related service from roll to poll, and will run continuous, year-round activity through a dedicated ELC portal. Options B, C and D are wrong because none of those lines appears in this release, although each has the ring of a voter awareness slogan and so works as a distractor. The two-part tagline is easy to remember if you keep its structure in mind: first learn, then lead.

The correct answer is Nagpur, Maharashtra, named in the announcement as the place of the main celebration on 23 September 2026. Option A names Jaipur, which does appear in the release but for a different reason: the National Institute of Ayurveda there, headed by Prof. Sanjeev Sharma, will begin new programmes as part of the occasion, and its Vice-Chancellor set out the plans at the press conference. Option B names New Delhi, which is where the curtain raiser press conference was held at the National Media Centre, and a hurried reader will confuse the city of the announcement with the city of the celebration. Option D names Goa, which does not figure in this release at all. Keep the pair separate in revision, New Delhi for the curtain raiser on 7 September and Nagpur for the main event on 23 September.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Women and Child Development. Mission Poshan 2.0 is the unified national nutrition mission of the country, brought together in the Union Budget of 2021-22 under that ministry, and it merges POSHAN Abhiyaan, Anganwadi Services or the Integrated Child Development Services, and the Scheme for Adolescent Girls into one framework. Option A is a natural guess because malnutrition is a public health problem, and the health ministry does run nutrition related health services, but the mission itself sits elsewhere. Option B is wrong because rural development handles livelihoods and rural infrastructure rather than this mission. Option D is wrong although the link between nutrition and early learning is stressed in this edition, since school education is not the anchor of Poshan 2.0. Also remember the starting point of the whole effort: POSHAN Abhiyaan was launched in March 2018 as a multi-ministerial convergence mission.

The correct answer is Hamari Anganwadi, Hamari Jimmedari, which places the responsibility for the Anganwadi Centre on the community itself. The month-long campaign built around it asks households to work on dietary diversity, adequate protein intake and fresh hot cooked meals, along with sanitation and early childhood development. Option B borrows two real slogans of the nutrition effort, since a well nourished and capable India is the stated goal, and that makes it the closest wrong answer. Option C names a real component of the wider Poshan programme that links nutrition with early learning at Anganwadi Centres, so it is easy to mistake for the theme. Option D is a familiar nutrition slogan from earlier campaigns. For the examination, always pair the edition number, the year and the theme of Poshan Maah, because a question usually supplies two of the three and asks for the last.

The correct answer is the National Overseas Scholarship Scheme. The release says that to strengthen the authenticity of documents and prevent fraudulent claims, a system for verifying income and caste certificates on the spot, directly with the authorities that issued them, was introduced under this scheme from the academic year 2024-25, and that the measure helps ensure the benefit reaches genuine candidates aspiring to study abroad. Each of the other options is a real scheme named in the same release but carries a different reform, so they must be kept apart. SHRESHTA is where the entrance test was advanced from May to December. The National Fellowship for SC Students is where a mandatory seven-day grievance window was introduced from the academic year 2025-26, following the declaration of the UGC-NET and Joint CSIR-UGC NET results. The Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme is where the disbursement figures come from.

The correct answer is nearly 1,500. The release sets out the scale of the educational network that ELC 2.0 can reach, and says higher education comprises nearly that many universities along with around seventy thousand educational institutions, with an estimated enrolment of 4.33 crore students. Option D is the trap, because that larger figure belongs to the institutions rather than the universities, and the two numbers sit in the same sentence. Options A and B are wrong because neither figure appears in the release. The school side of the network is worth learning alongside it: about fifteen lakh schools, nearly twenty five crore students and more than one crore teachers. Together these numbers explain why the Commission treats the school and college network as its main route to young electors.

The correct answer is Ayush Vision 2030. The Vice-Chancellor of the National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur listed the items planned for the day, and this vision document sits among them along with safety dossiers on medicinal plants, Standard Treatment Guidelines for skin diseases, a report on the Ayush services sector and the exchange of memoranda of understanding. Option B names the National Health Policy, a separate policy document of the health ministry that this release does not mention. Option C invents a pharmacopoeia title that sounds plausible because pharmacopoeial work does happen in the sector, but it is not in the list. Option D names a register of medical practitioners, which belongs to a different regulator altogether. The award to remember alongside these releases is the National Dhanwantari Ayurveda Awards 2026, presented on the same day.

The correct answer is Varanasi. The campaign will be launched on 9 September 2026 at the Rudraksh International Cooperation and Convention Centre in that city of Uttar Pradesh, and the venue itself is a useful detail to remember because paper setters like naming convention centres. Option A, Lucknow, is the capital of the state and hosts many official functions, which makes it the most tempting wrong answer for a candidate who recalls only that the launch is in Uttar Pradesh. Option C, Prayagraj, is another major city of the same state with no connection to this launch. Option D, New Delhi, is where national campaigns are often launched, so it is a reasonable guess, yet this edition moves out of the capital. Pair the city with the theme, Hamari Anganwadi Hamari Jimmedari, and with the anniversary being marked, which is ten years of the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana.

The correct answer is more than Rs 21,000 crore to over 4.65 crore mothers, paid through direct benefit transfer. The Union Minister announced the figure while noting that the scheme has completed ten years of implementation, and a film marking the decade was screened at the launch in Varanasi. Options A, C and D move both numbers up or down in step, which is how such questions are usually built, because a candidate who remembers only the rough scale cannot separate them. Anchor the pair by remembering that the rupee figure in thousands of crore is roughly four to five times the number of crore of beneficiaries. Two more figures from the same speech are worth carrying with it: more than 14 lakh Anganwadi Centres are working, and 2 lakh of them are being upgraded into Saksham Anganwadis, of which about 24,000 have been approved in Uttar Pradesh.