Teaching Current Affairs Quiz: 2 October 2026

The correct answer is Vijay Ghat. On the birth anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri, both the Prime Minister and the Vice-President went to Vijay Ghat to lay flowers at the memorial of the former Prime Minister. Option A, Rajghat, is wrong because Rajghat is the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, and that is where the tributes of the day for the Father of the Nation were offered; the two memorials are distinct and candidates should not mix them up. Option C, Shanti Van, is wrong because it is a different memorial in the same stretch of Delhi and no tribute to Shastri was offered there on this occasion. Option D, Shakti Sthal, is wrong for the same reason, as it is another memorial site and did not figure in the tributes of the day. The pairing to memorise is simple: Mahatma Gandhi with Rajghat, and Lal Bahadur Shastri with Vijay Ghat.

The correct answer is 17 September 2026. The campaign opened on that date with the taking of the Swachhata pledge and ran as a fortnight-long drive that ended on 2 October 2026, the day observed as Swachh Bharat Diwas. Through the fortnight offices held cleanliness drives, door-to-door awareness visits, drawing competitions, walkathons, plantation under Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam and cultural activities such as Nukkad Natak and slogan writing. Option A is wrong because the campaign had not started at the beginning of September. Option C is wrong because that date fell in the last stretch of the drive rather than at its start, when officials joined sweeping work on the eve of Swachh Bharat Diwas. Option D is wrong because it falls in the middle of the fortnight, after the pledge had already been taken. The pair of dates to memorise is 17 September to 2 October.

The correct answer is 2 October 2014. The mission was launched on that date and grew into one of the largest government-led sanitation movements in the country, working through two components, one for rural areas and one for urban areas. Option B is wrong because that date is Independence Day of the same year, when the idea was spoken of but the mission itself had not been rolled out. Option C is wrong because that date marks the declaration of rural India as free of open defecation and the anniversary set as the original target, not the launch. Option D is wrong because it names the start of a financial year and has no link with the launch. A simple way to hold the dates together is that the mission started on a Gandhi Jayanti and reported its rural milestone on another Gandhi Jayanti five years later.

The correct answer is women's 65 kg. Parveen won the gold medal in the women's 65 kg boxing event at the Asian Games after a hard-fought final, and the division is the detail most often tested on a medal story of this kind. Option A is wrong because her title did not come in the lighter 54 kg class. Option B is wrong for the same reason, and the figure has been set just below the correct one to trap a candidate who recalls the result only loosely. Option D is wrong because no gold in that heavier division is attached to her name. Since more than one Indian boxer won gold on the same day in different weight classes, the safest habit is to memorise the name and the division as a single unit: Parveen, women's 65 kg.

The correct answer is Thiru K. Kamaraj. Apart from offering homage to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat and to Lal Bahadur Shastri at Vijay Ghat, the Vice-President paid tribute at Upa-Rashtrapati Bhavan to Thiru K. Kamaraj, a former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, on his death anniversary. He described Kamaraj as a towering statesman and a leader of the common people, and singled out his contribution to education, especially in opening up schooling to children from poor households. Options B, C and D name other leaders who have served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, but none of them was the leader remembered in this tribute. For the examination the useful link is between the Vice-President, the date of 2 October and three names: Mahatma Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Thiru K. Kamaraj.

The correct answer is 157th. On the concluding day of the campaign the Department offered floral tribute to the Father of the Nation on his 157th birth anniversary, the date that is observed across the country as Swachh Bharat Diwas. Option A names the anniversary that was marked in an earlier year and is often remembered because of the sanitation targets attached to it, so it is a tempting distractor, but it is not the one marked here. Option B names an anniversary that had already passed before this campaign. Option D names an anniversary still in the future. Candidates should link three things together for this date: Gandhi Jayanti, Swachh Bharat Diwas and the closing day of Swachhata Hi Seva, and should be able to state the anniversary number asked for in the year under study.

The correct answer is the spectacles of Mahatma Gandhi. The logo of the mission is built around the round glasses associated with the Father of the Nation. The backgrounder explains that this helped build brand value for the campaign, carried the emotion attached to cleanliness and let ordinary people connect with the mission quickly and easily. Option A is wrong because the spinning wheel, though strongly tied to Gandhi and to Khadi, is not the symbol used in the logo. Option C and option D name other objects associated with Gandhi in popular memory, but neither of them appears in the mission mark. Alongside the logo, candidates should also remember that the term Swachhagrahi was deliberately coined from Satyagraha, so that volunteers were seen as taking part in a collective Swachhagraha.

The correct answer is as a hard-fought final. The official account of the result records that the boxer won the gold after a hard-fought final, which tells aspirants that the bout stayed competitive until the end. Option B is wrong because the medal was won in a contested bout and not awarded without a fight. Option C is wrong because there is no mention of the contest being halted early; the description points the other way, towards a long and demanding final. Option D is wrong because no tie-breaking procedure of that sort figures in the result. This is the kind of question that separates candidates who read the whole sentence from those who note only the colour of the medal, so the manner of the win is worth remembering alongside the weight class.

The correct answer is buy at least one Khadi product. In his Gandhi Jayanti message the Prime Minister recalled the stress that Mahatma Gandhi laid on Swadeshi, with Khadi foremost among its symbols, and he urged every citizen to purchase at least one Khadi item on 2 October and to say with pride that it is Swadeshi. He added the hope that the timeless message of Bapu would continue to guide the country towards a better society and a Viksit Bharat. Option B is wrong because the appeal of the day was about Khadi and Swadeshi, not about a planting target. Option C is wrong because no appeal for a salary contribution was made on this occasion. Option D is wrong because it invents a step count that formed no part of the message. The fact worth remembering is the pairing of Gandhi Jayanti with the Khadi and Swadeshi appeal.

The correct answer is Eco Clubs for Mission LiFE. The Shramdaan was organised at a PM SHRI school in New Delhi under the aegis of Eco Clubs for Mission LiFE and was led by the Secretary of the Department of School Education and Literacy, with students, teachers, senior officials and officers of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan joining in. The drive covered the school campus, the community space next to it and the park facing the school, and was followed by a plantation programme under Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam 3.0 and a quiz on the Solid Waste Management Rules. Options B, C and D name other well-known school-level programmes of the education sector, but none of them was the banner under which this cleanliness drive was conducted. Remember the pairing of Eco Clubs with Mission LiFE in school-level environment activities.

The correct answer is ODF++. This protocol goes beyond the availability and upkeep of toilets and looks at what happens to faecal sludge after it leaves the toilet, covering its safe containment, evacuation, transportation and processing so that untreated sludge does not flow into open drains, water bodies or fields. Option A is wrong because the plain ODF protocol is about ensuring that every citizen has access to a toilet. Option B is wrong because ODF+ extends that focus to community and public toilets that are functional, usable and properly maintained, which helps prevent slippage back to open defecation. Option D is wrong because Water+ is the next rung, dealing with untreated black water and grey water and encouraging reuse of a share of treated wastewater. Learn the ladder in order: ODF, ODF+, ODF++ and then Water+.

The correct answer is that it adds another glorious chapter to Indian boxing. The Prime Minister used those terms while congratulating the boxer, and he went on to call her success deeply motivating and to say that it highlights her dedication to sporting excellence. Option B is wrong because no claim about a first-ever boxing medal was made; the word used was "another", which points to a continuing record rather than a beginning. Option C is wrong because no record of any kind is reported in connection with this win. Option D is wrong because no team role or appointment was announced. Reading the exact wording matters here, since the difference between "another" chapter and a "first" medal is precisely the distinction a well-set question will test.