India Current Affairs [Nation & States] MCQs

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In December 2025, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami launched the “Meri Yojana” Portal in Dehradun to make welfare scheme information easily accessible to citizens. The portal is an online platform aimed at providing citizens with comprehensive information on welfare schemes offered by both the Central and State Governments. It is part of the state government’s effort to ensure transparent, accessible, and time-bound delivery of benefits to eligible citizens. The portal and related initiatives reflect Uttarakhand’s focus on digital governance, DBT-based benefits, citizen awareness, and local economic empowerment.

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Union Minister for Rural Development and Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan, introduced the Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) or VB–G RAM G Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha. The Bill provides a statutory guarantee of 125 days of wage employment every year for rural households. It aims to ensure welfare of the poor and promote comprehensive village development in line with Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of self-reliant and developed villages. The central government has committed over ₹95,000 crore for this initiative. Panchayats will be graded, with additional work assigned to underdeveloped or underperforming panchayats to ensure balanced development.

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Delhi Police traced 1,303 missing persons in the southwest district over the past year under Operation Milap, including 434 children and 869 adults. In December 2025 alone, 102 missing persons were found: 35 children and 67 adults. Operation Milap uses coordinated district-level efforts, inter-station cooperation, and consistent follow-up to trace missing persons. Local informers and hospital/police records played a key role, along with displaying photographs at bus stands, railway stations, auto and e-rickshaw points. The initiative emphasizes community participation, urban public safety, and focused tracing of children.

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Project Veer Gatha 5.0 is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Ministry of Education (MoE) under Republic Day celebrations. Approximately 1.92 crore students from around 1.90 lakh schools participated, marking the highest participation since its launch in 2021. A total of 100 national-level “Super-Winners” were selected: 25 each from Preparatory (Grades 3–5) and Middle (Grades 6–8), and 50 from Secondary (Grades 9–12). Each national-level winner will receive a cash prize of ₹10,000 and will attend the Republic Day Parade 2026 at Kartavya Path as a special guest.

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Seventy-eight-year-old Congress leader Siddaramaiah became the longest-serving Chief Minister of Karnataka on January 7, 2026, surpassing the record of his role model and social justice icon D. Devaraj Urs. D. Devaraj Urs served as Chief Minister for seven years and 239 days across two terms (1972–1977 and 1978–1980), while Siddaramaiah has served since May 2023, after completing a full earlier term from 2013 to 2018. Urs is remembered for land reforms, while Siddaramaiah earned the image of “champion of the poor” through Bhagya schemes and later five guarantee schemes.

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A value-education initiative titled “Young Ambassadors of Change: Values for a Caring Community” was launched at a Government Adi Dravidar Primary School in Kattur, Tamil Nadu. The programme promotes values like honesty, kindness, respect, responsibility, discipline, patience, and gratitude. Teachers use value-based stories, prayers, and reflections during morning assemblies. Students practice values at school and home with parental support through WhatsApp communication. Children are rotated in batches every 15 days for equal participation. Assessment is done through observation, encouragement, badges, and quote walls instead of marks.

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Maharashtra has launched India’s first dedicated menopause clinics in government hospitals and urban health facilities. The clinics provide medical consultation, mental health counselling, bone, heart and hormonal screening, medicines, and guidance at a single location. Menopause is a critical phase often accompanied by physical changes, hormonal imbalance, mental stress, sleep disorders, bone problems, and depression. The initiative addresses the long-felt need for specialised support for women during menopause.

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Multiple major disasters in 2025 highlighted serious gaps in India’s disaster victim identification and management systems. In response, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) released India’s first comprehensive SOP for Mass Fatality Incidents (MFIs). The guidelines are titled “National Disaster Management Guidelines on Comprehensive Disaster Victim Identification and Management.” They aim to standardise procedures for identification, documentation, and dignified handling of victims during large-scale disasters.

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Union Minister for Home and Cooperation Amit Shah informed in Lok Sabha that the Centre launched White Revolution 2.0 under Ministry of Cooperation. The initiative aims to expand dairy cooperatives, generate employment and strengthen women’s empowerment. Milk procurement by dairy cooperatives is targeted to increase by 50% to 1,007 lakh kilogram per day by 2028–29. Around 75,000 new Dairy Cooperative Societies (DCS) will be established and 46,422 existing DCS will be strengthened. The scheme will reduce post-harvest losses, improve income and enhance nutritional security.

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Ministry of Culture is organising the inaugural function of 100 years of Ol Chiki script on 16 February 2026 in New Delhi. Government of India is releasing a commemorative coin and postage stamp to mark the centenary. Ol Chiki script was developed in 1925 by Pandit Raghunath Murmu for Santhali language. Santhali was included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India in 2003. The script has 30 letters designed to match Santhali phonetics accurately. Santhali is a tribal language of Austroasiatic family spoken in Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Assam and Bihar. The script helped standardise writing, education and literary growth of the language.