What was the rural unemployment rate in August 2026 as per the PLFS bulletin?
- A.4.1 per cent
- B.4.5 per cent
- C.5.0 per cent
- D.6.8 per cent
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Explanation
The correct answer is 4.1 per cent, and the bulletin adds the detail that makes it memorable: this is the lowest rural reading since January of the same year. Option B is the rural rate of the previous month, from which the figure declined, so it is the trap for anyone who remembers the direction of change but not the endpoint. Option C is the overall unemployment rate for the month, covering rural and urban areas together, which stayed broadly stable. Option D is the urban rate, which was slightly above the previous month and is always higher than the rural one in this series. A useful way to hold these numbers is to rank them: rural lowest, overall in the middle and urban highest, with the gap between village and town explaining much of the national average.
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Practice Questions
According to the PLFS bulletin for August 2026, what was the overall Labour Force Participation Rate for persons aged 15 years and above?
- A.52.8 per cent
- B.55.6 per cent
- C.58.2 per cent
- D.50.4 per cent
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The distractors here are all real numbers from the same bulletin, which is exactly how a paper setter builds a question on a statistical release, so each one has to be placed correctly.
Read the full explanation →Which organisation conducts the Periodic Labour Force Survey?
- A.Reserve Bank of India
- B.NITI Aayog
- C.National Statistical Office under MoSPI
- D.Labour Bureau under the Ministry of Labour
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The bulletin describes the survey as the primary source of data on activity participation and on employment and unemployment conditions of the population.
Read the full explanation →Which operator recorded the highest average download speed in Palwal district during the drive test?
- A.Airtel
- B.BSNL
- C.RJIL
- D.VIL
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In Palwal district the average download speed measured 212.03 Mbps for RJIL, against 105.00 Mbps for Airtel, 40.70 Mbps for VIL and 13.92 Mbps for BSNL, so RJIL stood clearly at the top.
Read the full explanation →How much city drive distance did TRAI's agency cover during the Independent Drive Test in Nuh and Palwal?
- A.95.2 km
- B.195.2 km
- C.295.2 km
- D.395.2 km
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The appointed agency drove this distance within the cities, added a walk test of 1.8 km and tested at 6 hotspot locations, all between 13 and 15 July 2026 in the Haryana Licensed Service Area.
Read the full explanation →TRAI's Independent Drive Test whose findings were released in November 2026 covered which districts?
- A.Nuh and Palwal in Haryana
- B.Alwar and Bharatpur in Rajasthan
- C.Meerut and Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh
- D.Mandi and Kullu in Himachal Pradesh
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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India tested mobile network quality in these two cities and the areas adjoining them, all of which lie within the Haryana Licensed Service Area, and released the findings for the information of telecom consumers.
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