Uttar Pradesh GK Questions 2026

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting release states plainly that the campaign is being organised jointly by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and that department, which together cover urban and rural sanitation.

Both the Department of Food and Public Distribution and the Ministry of Textiles named this as the theme of the current campaign, and described it as an appeal to treat cleanliness as a collective effort and a festival of community involvement.

The Ministry of Defence describes the smoke pods as a significant indigenous modification to the Hawk Mk132, developed in India at the Indian Air Force's Base Repair Depot, Nashik.

According to the Ministry of Defence, SKAT was established in 1996 and holds the distinction of being the only nine-aircraft aerobatic team in Asia.

The Ministry of Defence says the Suryakiran Aerobatic Team flies nine distinctive red-and-white Hawk Mk132 aircraft, licence-manufactured in India by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).

The Vice-President recalled that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel served as the first Home Minister and as Minister for States, carrying an extraordinary responsibility at a time when the country was recovering from Partition while hundreds of princely states were being consolidated into one Union.

The Vice-President took part as chief guest at Parade Ground in Secunderabad, Telangana, where he inspected the parade, laid a wreath at the War Memorial and watched the March Past along with cultural performances.

The Vice-President said that 17 September 1948 closed a decisive chapter in the history of independent India, with the erstwhile Hyderabad State becoming part of the Indian Union after the events of September 1948 and this operation.

The correct answer is Mansukh Mandaviya, the Union Minister of Labour and Employment and of Youth Affairs and Sports, who chaired the first day of the conference.

In the session on the roles and responsibilities of BOCW Welfare Boards in the light of the new labour codes, several States and Union Territories presented their own initiatives.

The two-day conference was organised by the Ministry of Labour and Employment in collaboration with the Government of Maharashtra and concluded in the city on the second day.

The Union Minister announced the figure while noting that the scheme has completed ten years of implementation, and a film marking the decade was screened at the launch in Varanasi.

The month-long campaign built around it asks households to work on dietary diversity, adequate protein intake and fresh hot cooked meals, along with sanitation and early childhood development.

The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the Union Minister for Women and Child Development, the Minister of State in that ministry and the state minister for women welfare were all present.

That is why the agriculture ministry publishes a weekly progressive sowing report through the monsoon months and why the position as on 4 September 2026, when the sown area stood at 1086.31 lakh hectares, is treated as an important signal for the year's foodgrain supply.

Pulses were sown on 117.13 lakh hectares against 115.30 lakh hectares a year earlier, and jute and mesta on 6.34 lakh hectares against 6.24 lakh hectares, so these are the only two groups of the report standing above last season.

The weekly progressive sowing report of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, issued on 8 September 2026, gives this as the total area under kharif crops for the position as on 4 September 2026.

The campaign will be launched on 9 September 2026 at the Rudraksh International Cooperation and Convention Centre in that city of Uttar Pradesh, and the venue itself is a useful detail to remember because paper setters like naming convention centres.

Mission Poshan 2.0 is the unified national nutrition mission of the country, brought together in the Union Budget of 2021-22 under that ministry, and it merges POSHAN Abhiyaan, Anganwadi Services or the Integrated Child Development Services, and the Scheme for Adolescent Girls into one framework.

This is the central theme of the nutrition month that begins on 9 September 2026 at the Rudraksh centre in Varanasi, and it calls upon every citizen to take shared ownership of the Anganwadi centre, described as part of the largest childcare network in the world.