SSC GK Questions 2026

The Secretary of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation urged districts to make real use of the Decision Support System, which stitches these datasets together so that planning rests on evidence rather than guesswork: water-stressed areas can be identified, source sustainability can be planned and the most urgent works…

Gram Panchayats, Village Water and Sanitation Committees and local stakeholders were part of the exercise, and the Secretary praised the work and asked the district to study whether continuous rural water supply is feasible in suitable areas.

Its District Magistrate and Collector, Aditya Goyal, described a three-stage approach of execution, commissioning and then operation and maintenance, and said large multi-village schemes had carried round-the-clock piped water to IIM Sambalpur.

The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, written short as DDWS, is a department of that ministry, and it ran the thirteenth edition of the District Collectors' Peyjal Samvad over video conferencing, with Secretary Ashok K.K.

Along with that total the Home Minister listed the rehabilitation work that followed: bank accounts were opened for 7,328 surrendered Naxalites who had none, 1,620 people received reward money, 7,882 got incentives, 455 were given jobs and 129 were allotted land.

The Home Minister said more than 500 security camps were established in the region and that over 200 of them will be turned into these service centres, so that officials of the Central and Chhattisgarh governments will now sit where security personnel once sat to protect the people, laying the…

The camp at Jagdalpur ran from 5 to 7 October 2026 and benefited that many persons with disabilities, and more than 1,570 of the beneficiaries were from Bastar alone, a figure the Home Minister described as a measure of what the district has endured.

Programmes under the Seva Sankalp Abhiyan are being held across the country to mark the completion of 25 years of service and dedication by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, first as the Chief Minister of a State and afterwards as Prime Minister of India.

The survey is the main source of data on participation in the labour force and on employment and unemployment conditions, and its design was changed from January 2025 so that monthly and quarterly estimates could be produced.

Urban female labour force participation improved by 0.5 percentage points over the month, from 25.4 per cent, and reached its highest level since October 2025.

Urban LFPR gained 0.3 percentage points over the month, rising from 50.4 per cent in August 2026, and this improvement was the main point of the bulletin.

The overall unemployment rate for persons aged 15 years and above stayed at this level in September 2026, the same as in the previous month, and it was 0.2 percentage points lower than in September 2025.

He added that the framework helps States decide in a structured way and speeds up project execution without creating another layer of regulation.

From roughly 375 MW in 2020, India's data-centre capacity has multiplied to about this level, carried by rising demand from artificial intelligence, cloud computing, high-performance computing and applications that consume large volumes of data.

The framework is built around Power and Energy; Water and Cooling; Siting and Environmental Sustainability; Economic and Strategic Value; and Policy, Governance and Implementation.

The document was drafted with inputs from industry, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the Ministry of Power and the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade.

The President attended the fair on 15 October 2026, saw the stalls and interacted with Lakhpati Didis.

Speaking at the National SARAS Mela, the President said the number of women attached to self-help groups has risen to this level over the past 12 years, and that they are connected to over 90 lakh such groups.

Around 1500 women self-help group entrepreneurs and Lakhpati Didis, drawn from 34 States and Union Territories, are showing their products at these stalls in Vijayawada, and the fair remains open until 31 October 2026.

The fair is organised by the Union Ministry of Rural Development together with the Government of Andhra Pradesh, and the President visited the stalls and spoke with Lakhpati Didis during her visit.