1. What outlay for 2026-2031 do the Operational Guidelines for DILRMP 3.0, issued by the Ministry of Rural Development, set for the Central Sector Scheme?
Answer: A. The scheme has an outlay of Rs 565.50 crore, borne wholly by the Centre because it is a Central Sector Scheme. Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched DILRMP 3.0 at Krishi Bhawan in New Delhi, aiming for a GIS-based integrated digital land records system that makes land services easier for citizens.
2. Every land parcel under DILRMP 3.0 gets a Bhu-Aadhaar, the Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN). How many digits does it have?
Answer: B. The identifier has 14 digits. Acting as a permanent address for a plot, it lets a parcel be followed through sale, partition and mutation, and lets records from revenue, registration and survey maps be tied together.
3. Under the Registration Seva Kendras component of DILRMP 3.0, 75 busy Sub-Registrar Offices are to be upgraded in the style of which existing service facility?
Answer: C. Modelling them on Passport Seva Kendras introduces appointments, queue handling and a split between front and back office in these crowded property registration offices. The scheme's remaining components are NAKSHA and a Revenue Court Case Management System.
4. What does the NAKSHA component of DILRMP 3.0 deal with?
Answer: B. Urban land records have long been weaker than rural revenue records, so this component, which maps towns through a GIS-based survey and issues Urban Property Cards (UrPro Cards), is being accelerated as a pilot.
5. Which organisation brought out the ASUSE 2025 district-level report on the unincorporated sector?
Answer: E. The National Statistical Office, part of MoSPI, produced it, marking India's first district-wise estimates for non-agricultural unincorporated enterprises. Covering January to December 2025, ASUSE captures street vendors, small shops, repair units and household enterprises that are not registered as companies.
6. In the district-wise estimates from ASUSE 2025, which district of Telangana had the largest share?
Answer: D. Rangareddy was ahead with 23.53 per cent, the biggest share for any one district among those States. Surat (Gujarat) at 19.43 per cent, North 24 Parganas (West Bengal) at 15.99 per cent and Ludhiana (Punjab) at 14.74 per cent also led their States, indicating clustering in industrial and peri-urban areas.
7. Shalimar Sugandh, known as Kashur Basmat, is a newly bred variety of which crop?
Answer: B. Bred under SKUAST-Kashmir at Khudwani's Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops, this fine-grain aromatic rice was begun in 2021 and its certified seed reached farmers in 2024. Such a variety lets Valley growers shift out of plain paddy into a more valuable crop.
8. Which body holds the Geographical Indication registration for Basmati rice, granted in 2016?
Answer: C. APEDA, which regulates Basmati exports, holds the GI. The protected zone includes Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Delhi, along with 30 western UP districts and Jammu, Kathua and Samba in J&K; Pakistan has contested India's claim in the EU.
9. In the Ladakh glacial water project at Chuchot and neighbouring villages, which glacier feeds the nallah used for irrigation?
Answer: D. The Stok village nallah, fed by the Stok Kangri Glacier, carries nearly 90 million litres a day that used to run unused into the Indus. Simple earthwork joined it to existing canals, so it now waters over 1,000 acres across 12 villages without costly new infrastructure.
10. Project CHAYANKAN, a collaboration of NIT Rourkela, ISRO-NRSC and the Tea Board, applies AI and geospatial tools to do what?
Answer: C. The aim is tea plantation monitoring, using satellite images, hyperspectral data from UAVs and field observations for mapping, yield estimates, crop health assessment and forecasting of pests and diseases. Running from April 2026 to March 2029, it spans three years.
11. How many Gram Panchayats does the Digital Bharat Nidhi's Jharkhand agreement cover under the Amended BharatNet Programme?
Answer: A. The agreement covers 4,395 Gram Panchayats, backed by Rs 1,684 crore approved for the state-led model, with demand-based connectivity to about 26,777 villages. Rural broadband supports e-governance, online learning, telemedicine and digital payments, so BharatNet counts as rural development infrastructure.
12. The RBI recently gave Pluxee India authorisation to function as what?
Answer: A. It is authorised as a Payment Aggregator for both online and physical transactions, allowing it to onboard merchants, collect payments, settle funds and handle refunds across cards, QR, NFC and online channels. With a Prepaid Payment Instrument licence since 2009, Pluxee now extends from issuing instruments to acquiring merchants.
13. India hosted the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on 12-13 September 2026. What was its theme?
Answer: D. The theme was "Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability", in India's fourth Chairship, which ran over 350 meetings in 25 cities. BRICS has 11 full members after Indonesia joined in January 2025, plus 10 partner countries, and discusses IMF and World Bank quota reform, the NDB, the CRA and local-currency settlement.
14. What bilateral trade target have India and Russia set to be reached by 2030?
Answer: E. The goal is $100 billion, against current trade near $60 billion, so it requires a big expansion this decade. Trade leans heavily on Indian crude oil imports, which makes broadening the basket and sorting out payment settlement central to success.
15. What is the outlay of DILRMP 3.0 for 2026–2031?
Answer: A. The scheme has an outlay of ₹565.50 crore for 2026–2031.