Teaching Current Affairs Quiz: 13 October 2026

The correct answer is Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy. The Ministry of Ayush has published a separate Standard Treatment Guidelines document for each of these four systems, and Yoga has been brought into the guidelines as an inclusion rather than as a fifth system with its own document. Option A wrongly lists Yoga and Naturopathy as systems with their own guidelines in this set. Option C and Option D bring in Sowa-Rigpa, which is indeed one of the systems under the Ayush umbrella but is not among the four for which these skin disorder guidelines have been issued. Candidates should also note that the documents were prepared by the Ayush Vertical of the Directorate General of Health Services under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and that they were released on the occasion of the 11th Ayurveda Day.

The correct answer is Joint Squad for Health. The nationwide campaign organised on 13 October 2026 placed JOSH teams in 11 states and 55 districts on a pilot basis, and every team has MY Bharat volunteers, cadets of the National Cadet Corps and a designated Class-I officer. Their task is to build grassroots awareness on timely screening, early detection, treatment adherence and the removal of stigma, and in doing so to carry forward the Jan Andolan approach to tuberculosis elimination. Options A, C and D are invented expansions that fit the letters loosely but do not match the campaign's name. Candidates should also note why community mobilisation matters here: the health ministry had already held workshops on the TB Mukt Abhiyaan with members of Parliament and of legislative assemblies, and this campaign was designed as the next step, to raise active screening and find patients who show no symptoms.

The correct answer is Karmayogi Bharat, which signed the memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs in New Delhi for a Tribal Affairs Capacity Building Platform under the iGOT Karmayogi framework. Karmayogi Bharat will host, run and maintain the platform, bring learners on board and provide technical support, analytics and progress reports, while the ministry owns the subject matter and will fix the target groups, the competencies and the content. The other options are wrong because none of them is a party to this agreement, even though each works in training or in tribal and rural development in some form. The agreement matters because it stretches Mission Karmayogi, which so far trained civil servants, to village level volunteers working on tribal development schemes.

The correct answer is the 11th Ayurveda Day. The Ministry of Ayush chose this occasion to put the guidelines in the public domain, which ties the release to the ministry's own calendar of observances. Option A, World Health Day, is marked by the World Health Organization and was not the occasion here. Option B, National Doctors' Day, honours the medical profession in India but is unconnected with this release. Option D, International Yoga Day, is a natural guess because Yoga has been included in the guidelines, yet the release was not timed to it. The edition number matters for examinations, so remember that this was the eleventh observance of Ayurveda Day. The guidelines themselves address psoriasis, dermatitis, vitiligo, urticaria and dermatophytosis across Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy.

The correct answer is 21%. Yearly emerging cases of tuberculosis in India came down by 21% between 2015 and 2024, as recorded in the World Health Organisation's Global Tuberculosis Report 2025, and this is one of the steepest declines in incidence recorded anywhere, faster than in other high burden nations. Option A is the global decline of 12% over the same years, which is the figure India's performance is compared against, so it is a natural trap. Option D is the fall in deaths due to tuberculosis, which came down by 28% in that period, and candidates often mix up the case decline with the death decline. Option B is simply not a figure in the record. Another pair worth memorising is treatment coverage, which stands at 92% in India against a global coverage of 78%.

The correct answer is Maharashtra, Odisha, Goa and Tripura. These four states were placed first in the queue for the three day in-person training of volunteers, which State Administrative Training Institutes are to design and deliver along with state tribal welfare departments, and they are expected to finish it by the end of October. Every other state is to complete the same training by 31 December 2026. The remaining options mix in states that were not named among the four priority states, which makes them incorrect. The classroom training is meant to go together with the online material on the new microsite, where learning can be tracked state by state, so candidates should remember both deadlines as a pair.

The correct answer is Shri Prataprao Jadhav, who holds independent charge of the Ministry of Ayush as Minister of State and is also Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare. He said the guidelines would deepen the integration of the Ayush systems with the national healthcare framework and would support safe, effective and holistic care for common skin conditions. Option B, Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, is the Secretary of the Ministry of Ayush and spoke separately about standardisation and evidence-based practice, but he is an official and not the minister. Option C, Dr Loveneesh G. Krishna, is the Director General of Health Services and highlighted multidisciplinary collaboration. Option D names the Union Health Minister, a plausible distractor since the Directorate General of Health Services falls under the health ministry, but he is not the Ayush minister quoted here.

The correct answer is 46,118. Under the intensified TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan, that many Gram Panchayats have been awarded TB free certification, and the same drive has taken cumulative screenings past 28.1 crore, provided TB Preventive Treatment to over 20 lakh people and added 5.7 lakh new Nikshay Mitras. Option A echoes the screening figure of 28.1 crore and option D echoes the 1.38 crore beneficiaries of the Nikshay Poshan Yojana, so both are distractors drawn from other numbers in the same record. Option C is close to the count of new Nikshay Mitras, which is 5.7 lakh, but is not the panchayat figure. The response has also been accelerated by a 34-fold increase in X-ray screening through handheld units, by the TB Mukt Bharat App with its chatbot Khushi and by AI driven triage tools.

The correct answer is 60,507. Going by what the states have reported on the portal, that many Adi Sewa Kendras stand registered, along with 1,22,072 Adi Karmayogi Volunteers. Option C is wrong because it gives the number of registered volunteers rather than kendras, which is the classic trap in such questions. Options A and D are also wrong, as they give the targets of the campaign and not the figures achieved: the ministry is working towards more than 76,000 Adi Sewa Kendras and a network of more than 1,54,000 volunteers, which are to serve as lasting village level platforms for facilitation, citizen engagement and convergence of schemes at the last mile. Keep the target and the achievement separate for both kendras and volunteers.

The correct answer is the Directorate of Ayush, Government of NCT of Delhi. Field-level validation was a notable feature of the exercise: the protocols were tried out with Medical Officers working in primary and secondary healthcare under this directorate, and the feedback they gave on how usable the protocols were in day-to-day practice was built into the final documents. Option A, the All India Institute of Ayurveda, is a major Ayurveda institution but is not named as the validation partner. Option B, the Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, belongs to the group of Ayush Research Councils whose technical expertise went into drafting the guidelines, which is a different role from field validation. Option D, the National Medical Commission, regulates modern medical education and had no part in this process. The drafting itself involved classical texts, current evidence and consensus-based deliberation.

The correct answer is 2020. In that year the Government of India renamed the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme as the National TB Elimination Programme, a change that reflects the aim of ending the disease in India ahead of the global target year of 2030. The programme rests on the pillars of Detect, Treat, Prevent and Build, and the National Strategic Plan to End TB in India 2020-25 was announced in June 2020 with the same four pillars. Option A is the year the Nikshay Poshan Yojana began, under which each notified patient receives 1,000 rupees a month and 4,454.68 crore rupees have gone to 1.38 crore beneficiaries. Option C is the year the Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan was launched, on 9 September 2022, as an additional component of the programme. Option D is the year of the WHO report cited for the decline figures.

The correct answer is Mission Karmayogi. Its capacity building framework, which until now focused on civil servants, has been extended through this agreement to Adi Karmayogi Volunteers and to other functionaries who implement tribal development schemes on the ground. The training will be delivered on the iGOT Karmayogi platform, where a dedicated microsite gives volunteers standardised and mobile friendly material with assessments and certification. The other options name different programmes that were not the basis of this extension, so they are incorrect. As evidence of early use, the Secretary of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Ranjana Chopra, cited 646 course enrolments, 235 course completions and 112 volunteers who have finished at least one course, while instructional videos reached more than 1,25,000 volunteers by bulk message.