Teaching Current Affairs Quiz: 8 October 2026

The correct answer is screening school children for probable disability conditions. PRASHAST is a school-based digital tool under the Department of School Education and Literacy that helps identify children with conditions covered by the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, and it works through a checklist in two parts, with the teacher screening on observable indicators and a special educator validating the case and arranging a medical referral where required. Option B is wrong; midday meal records are maintained through a separate system under the school nutrition programme. Option C is wrong because the tool looks at children's needs rather than at teacher performance, although teachers are the ones who use it. Option D is wrong, as scholarship distribution runs through dedicated portals of other departments. The point to carry into an examination is the link between PRASHAST and the disability rights law.

The correct answer is Thiruvarutchelvar. The archive did not hold this title in any format before the donation, so the print fills a real gap in the national collection, and the donor gave it priority once she learnt of the gap. Option A, Thillana Mohanambal, is wrong because the archive already holds several preservation elements of that film and the donation only adds a second surviving release print. Option B, Thiruvilayadal, is wrong because one preservation element of it was already in the collection; the donated print, apparently an optically altered version in the CinemaScope format, becomes the second. Option D, Rathakaneer, is wrong because that print was donated earlier, in January 2026, and was not part of this set of three. All three films star Sivaji Ganesan and were directed by A. P. Nagarajan.

The correct answer is about Rs 19,700 crore. The document brought out by the National Highways Authority of India records that this amount has gone into wildlife mitigation infrastructure and related environmental protection measures across National Highway projects over the past five years. The spending is aimed at habitat fragmentation, the barrier effect of roads and collisions between wildlife and vehicles, while keeping traffic moving safely. Options A, C and D are near-miss figures built by changing the leading digits, the commonest way such questions are set, so the exact number must be memorised. It helps to anchor it against the item-wise split, in which viaducts account for the largest share at about Rs 8,300 crore, followed by animal underpasses at about Rs 4,600 crore, tunnels at about Rs 2,800 crore and major bridges at about Rs 2,500 crore.

The correct answer is Rowriah, Jorhat, Assam. The Central Silk Board’s Silkworm Seed Production Centre there received a newly constructed grainage building and cold storage facility, inaugurated by the Union Minister of State for Textiles under the North-East Region Textile Promotion Scheme. Option B names another locality near the same town and is the kind of near-miss that catches a candidate who remembers only the district. Options C and D name places long associated with silk research and seed work elsewhere in the country, which is precisely why they are planted here; neither features in this inauguration. The facility can produce 30 lakh disease-free layings of mulberry hybrid seed a year and preserve up to 1 crore of them, so quality seed should reach the region’s farmers on time.

The correct answer is more than 60,000 schools, with participation expected to grow further during the month. The other options are wrong because they alter the figure, and a candidate should keep this number apart from the second reach figure in the same news, namely the more than seventy-two lakh teachers already sensitised through the dedicated module over the preceding three months. The two numbers measure different things: one counts institutions that screened the film on a single day, the other counts individual teachers covered by a continuing exercise. It is also worth remembering that the module itself runs for thirty minutes, is offered in twelve Indian languages, and is aimed not only at teachers but at every adult a child encounters in school, from the head of the institution to drivers and clerical staff.

The correct answer is Pune. The three donated Tamil prints were handed over to the NFDC-National Film Archive of India in that city, and the Film and Television Institute of India, where the donor works as a Film Research Officer, is based there as well. Option B, Chennai, is a careful distractor: the prints were located and collected from Chennai on 13 September 2026 before being moved, but the archive itself is not there. Option C, Mumbai, and option D, Kolkata, are centres of Indian cinema and of film culture but do not host the national archive. Candidates should remember the three titles together with their years, Thiruvarutchelvar of 1967, Thillana Mohanambal of 1968 and Thiruvilayadal of 1965, along with the actor Sivaji Ganesan and the director A. P. Nagarajan.

The correct answer is Nitin Gadkari, at a Chintan Shivir in Ekta Nagar, Gujarat. He is the Minister for Road Transport and Highways, and the document was released by him at that Chintan Shivir; the Authority then put it out to mark National Wildlife Week, observed from 2 to 8 October 2026. Option A is wrong because the Environment Ministry and the National Board for Wildlife had no part in this release, even though wildlife falls in that ministry’s domain, which is what makes the option tempting. Option C is wrong as no press conference by the Authority’s chairman is involved. Option D is wrong because no such conference at Gandhinagar features here; the Gujarat link in the news is Ekta Nagar, where the Chintan Shivir was held. Note also that the document is published on the NHAI website as a reference framework.

The correct answer is about 84 per cent, which works out to 73 metric tonnes of Muga silk. The trap here is option C: 74 per cent is Assam’s share of Eri silk production, amounting to 2,131 metric tonnes, and the two shares are routinely swapped in question papers, so the pairing must be learnt together. Options A and B are invented figures. Muga is the golden silk for which Assam is known, and the minister pointed to Mission Senehjori as a way of turning it into a high-value product for global markets. For completeness, the State recorded 6 per cent of mulberry raw silk output, or 9 metric tonnes, in 2026-27 up to July, and the whole North-Eastern Region recorded 142 metric tonnes of mulberry silk in the same period.

The correct answer is the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016. The conditions listed in that law define the scope of the PRASHAST checklist, which is how a classroom observation becomes a formal referral for assessment. Option A, the Right to Education Act, is wrong for this question even though it governs free and compulsory elementary schooling and is the usual first guess in a school-related question. Option C, the Juvenile Justice Act, is wrong because it deals with children in need of care and protection and children in conflict with law, not with disability screening in schools. Option D, the Mental Healthcare Act, is wrong as well; it concerns mental health care and rights of persons with mental illness rather than school-level identification. The department ties this work to the National Education Policy and to the disability law together.

The correct answer is A. P. Nagarajan. All three donated prints, of Thiruvarutchelvar, Thillana Mohanambal and Thiruvilayadal, were directed by him and starred Sivaji Ganesan, which is why the set is treated as a single significant addition to the national collection rather than three unconnected titles. Options A, C and D name other well known Tamil directors, which makes them plausible, but they are not linked to these prints. The condition of the films is also worth noting for the preservation angle: each shows magenta colour fading and vertical projector scratches, the result of decades of projection and of storage in tropical and unfavourable surroundings. NFDC Managing Director Prakash Magdum said safeguarding the country’s cinematic heritage depends on individuals and organisations as much as on institutional collections.

The correct answer is viaducts, which take about Rs 8,300 crore, the biggest single item in the structural break-up. Option A, animal underpasses, comes next at about Rs 4,600 crore, so a candidate who assumes the structure named after animals must cost the most gets the question wrong. Option D, tunnels, accounts for about Rs 2,800 crore. Option B, animal overpasses, is the smallest of these at about Rs 650 crore, with major bridges at about Rs 2,500 crore and minor bridges at about Rs 500 crore completing the list. Together these structures let animals cross highway corridors safely and keep habitats connected on either side. The total of more than 2,150 structures built or proposed, and the figure of over 300 km of guide fencing and noise barriers, are the other numbers worth carrying into the exam hall.

The correct answer is about 29.50 lakh persons. The minister cited this estimate to show how much livelihood depends on the sector, which is the reason seed quality and modern infrastructure matter well beyond the rearing shed. Options A, B and D alter the leading digit of the real figure and are the standard distractors for an employment number. The context is worth remembering with it: the Central Silk Board’s seed network covers both the mulberry and the Vanya sectors, with its national silkworm seed organisation serving the mulberry side and two separate organisations supporting Vanya seed. The minister argued that quality silkworm seed, modern infrastructure, technology and skill development together decide whether sericulture stays productive, and he linked the effort to an Aatmanirbhar North-East.