Current Affairs Quiz 03 July 2026

Statement 1 is correct — the Act raises guaranteed employment from 100 to 125 days per household per year, with a 60-day aggregated pause during peak sowing and harvesting seasons. Statement 2 is correct — a ₹300/day nationwide wage floor is introduced for the first time, triggering wage hikes above 15% in states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Assam. Statement 3 is incorrect, since normal states actually follow a 60:40 (Centre:State) split, while 90:10 applies only to Northeastern/Himalayan states and Union Territories with a legislature. Statement 4 is incorrect, as the real wage disbursal ceiling is 14 days, not 30. Only statements 1 and 2 hold — Only two.

Option (b) is correct — Vikram-1's Test Flight-1 (Mission Aagaman) has a launch window of 12 July to 4 August 2026 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, subject to weather and range clearance. Option (a) actually describes Vikram-S, Skyroot's earlier suborbital mission from November 2022, not the orbital-class Vikram-1. Option (c) wrongly swaps in Agnikul Cosmos — Vikram-1 is developed by Skyroot Aerospace, a Hyderabad-based company. Option (d) reverses the sequence, since Vikram-1 is Skyroot's second mission, following the suborbital Vikram-S rather than preceding it.

Statement 1 is correct — India climbed to 94th of 167 countries (score 68.3/100), up from 99th in 2025, its strongest showing since the SDGs were adopted in 2015. Statement 2 is correct — cereal yield (3.6 tonnes/hectare, 2023) is the only on-track SDG 2 indicator, while stunting, wasting, undernourishment and adult obesity have worsened or remain high. Statement 3 is incorrect, since India's Press Freedom Index score actually fell sharply from 59.51 (2015) to 31.96 (2026), making it India's worst-performing SDG 16 indicator rather than its best. Statement 4 is correct, with notable progress on electricity access (SDG 7) and mobile broadband/internet penetration (SDG 9). Statements 1, 2 and 4 are correct.

The correct mapping is: nodal ministries are the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology and the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (B); implementing agencies are the Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute and Digital India Corporation (D); the underlying technology is the Interactive Information Dissemination System, IIDS (C); and the integrated platforms are Kisan Call Centre, Common Service Centre, IMD, MyScheme and BHASHINI (A). Option (b) swaps nodal ministries with implementing agencies and underlying technology with integrated platforms. Option (c) correctly places the ministries and agencies but swaps the single underlying technology with the list of external integrated platforms. Option (d) is a fully scrambled distractor testing genuine pairing knowledge over partial recall.

The correct sequence is: the UNICORN Mast MoI signed in Tokyo (2024), followed by West Bengal's maiden Budget under its newly elected BJP government (22 June 2026), then the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 coming into force replacing MGNREGA (1 July 2026), and finally the opening of Vikram-1's Test Flight-1 launch window (12 July 2026). Option (b) confuses narrative order with calendar order, wrongly placing the Budget before the 2024 MoI. Option (c) swaps events 2 and 3, which fall just nine days apart, testing precise date recall. Option (d) is a generic scrambled sequence meant to catch pattern-guessing over genuine date anchoring.