Current Affairs Quiz 13 November 2026

Statement 1 is correct — the NFSA covers up to 75% of the rural and 50% of the urban population, about 81.35 crore people on Census 2011 figures. Statement 2 is incorrect — Section 13 makes the eldest woman aged 18 or above the head of the household for issue of ration cards, a deliberate women’s-empowerment provision. Statement 3 is correct — AAY households get 35 kg per household per month and Priority Households 5 kg per person per month, and ONORC lets these entitlements be drawn at any Fair Price Shop in all 36 States/UTs.

Pair 1 is correct — NIRMAL strengthens data architecture and analytics in the PDS. Pair 2 is incorrect — SAKSHAM provides real-time data integration, including Vehicle Location Tracking Systems, from procurement to distribution, while FPS dealer margins are financed by the umbrella SARTHAK-PDS. Pair 3 is incorrect — SMART-PDS digitally integrates ration cards, distribution, supply chains and grievance redressal, and assistance for intra-State movement and handling is again a SARTHAK-PDS function; all three components run under SARTHAK-PDS till 31 March 2031.

Statement-I is correct — the NITI Aayog–IIM Ahmedabad assessment found disbursals at 18.51% of the ₹1.91 lakh crore outlay till March 2026, yet nearly 70% of targeted segments on track, with ₹2.40 lakh crore of investment and ₹22.66 lakh crore of production. Statement-II is correct — PLI is performance-linked, paying a share of incremental sales over a base year only after investment and sales thresholds are met. Because payouts follow achievement and rise as firms scale up, low early disbursal is a feature of the design, so Statement-II explains Statement-I.

All three statements are correct. Article 3.1(a) of the SCM Agreement prohibits export-contingent subsidies and Article 3.1(b) prohibits local-content subsidies, both sitting in the “prohibited” (red box) category unlike “actionable” subsidies. A WTO panel (2019, DS541) found MEIS and other export-linked measures inconsistent, and RoDTEP replaced MEIS from 1 January 2021. PLI pays on total incremental sales, domestic and export, to stay outside Article 3.

Statement 1 is correct — Article 14 of the Paris Agreement provides a five-yearly Global Stocktake; the first concluded at COP28 (2023) and the second begins at COP31, Antalya. Statement 2 is correct — the NCQG adopted at COP29, Baku (2024) set $300 billion a year by 2035, replacing the $100 billion goal. Statement 3 is incorrect — the Loss and Damage fund was agreed at COP27, Sharm el-Sheikh (2022) and operationalised at COP28, Dubai, while COP26 is known for the Glasgow Climate Pact and India’s net zero by 2070 pledge. Statement 4 is correct — the IPCC was set up in 1988 by the WMO and UNEP.

Statement 1 is correct — the four PVTG criteria are pre-agricultural technology, low literacy, economic backwardness and a stagnant or declining population; India has 75 PVTGs, and the Kurumbar are one of Keralam’s five. Statement 2 is incorrect — Article 342 lets the President specify tribes or “parts of or groups within” tribes, and ST orders can carry area restrictions; the Siddis, for instance, are STs only in Gujarat’s Saurashtra region and are classified as SEBC elsewhere.

Statement 1 is incorrect — the Skill Council for Green Jobs (2015) is an industry-led Sector Skill Council set up under the NSDC framework, not a statutory body. Statement 2 is correct — the Apprentices Act, 1961 governs apprenticeship training, supported by the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme. Statement 3 is correct — the PLFS, run by the National Statistics Office (MoSPI) since 2017, measures the LFPR, Worker Population Ratio and unemployment rate.

Statement 1 is correct — under Dayabhaga (Jimutavahana), a son gets rights only on the father’s death, whereas under Mitakshara a son is a coparcener by birth. Statement 2 is correct — the 2005 amendment to Section 6 made daughters coparceners by birth, and Vineeta Sharma v. Rakesh Sharma (2020) held this does not depend on the father being alive on 9 September 2005. Statement 3 is incorrect — the Schedule lists the son of a predeceased son, not of a living son, and the Supreme Court recently held that a grandson cannot claim his grandfather’s property while his father is alive, where the father inherited under Section 8.

Statement-I is correct — under Section 3 the marriage is voidable, and the child party may petition the District Court within two years of attaining majority, though it is void ab initio in cases of enticement, force, trafficking or violation of an injunction. Statement-II is correct — the Act defines a child as a male below 21 or a female below 18. However, the age definition only says who is a child; making such marriages voidable rather than void was a separate legislative choice that also protects the girl’s maintenance and the legitimacy of children, so Statement-II does not explain Statement-I.

Statement 1 is correct — Project 75(I) covers six conventional submarines with AIP, to be built with Germany’s TKMS and Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, with indigenous content rising from about 40% to over 60%. Statement 2 is incorrect — AIP is for non-nuclear (diesel-electric) submarines, letting them stay submerged for extended periods without surfacing to recharge batteries, whereas nuclear submarines already have near-unlimited submerged endurance. Statement 3 is correct — the six Kalvari-class boats of Project 75 were built by MDL on the Scorpène design of France’s Naval Group.

Polysilicon (2) is melted and cast into ingots (4), which are sliced into wafers (1), processed into solar cells (3) and assembled into modules (5); option (b) reverses ingot and wafer, though wafers are sliced from ingots. India has about 233 GW of module capacity but only about 30 GW of cells and 2 GW of ingot–wafer capacity, and China’s proposed export curbs on solar manufacturing equipment target these upstream stages.

Statement-I is incorrect — a resistance gene on a surface shows a potential reservoir, not infection; the IIT Madras study of the Chennai Metro found 206 AMR gene families across 25 drug classes at generally low abundance, and researchers said there was no cause for fear. Statement-II is correct — metagenomics sequences all DNA in a sample directly, so it can detect organisms that cannot be grown in a lab.

Statement 1 is correct — under Section 60, the NCLT hears cases of personal guarantors to corporate debtors (in force from 1 December 2019; upheld in Lalit Kumar Jain, 2021), the route of the recent bankruptcy of a former Videocon promoter. Statement 2 is incorrect — Section 12A requires the approval of 90% of the CoC voting share, while 66% is the threshold for approving a resolution plan. Statement 3 is incorrect — pre-packaged insolvency (introduced in 2021) is available only to MSME corporate debtors. Statement 4 is correct — the IBBI regulates insolvency professionals, professional agencies and information utilities.

Statement 1 is incorrect — the updated NDC (2022) targets a 45% cut in the emissions intensity of GDP by 2030 from 2005, not absolute emissions, which are still rising; the Global Carbon Budget projects India’s fossil CO₂ to grow 4.4% in 2026 as global emissions fall 0.4%. Statement 2 is correct — the Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (2023) was notified under the Energy Conservation Act, 2001, as amended in 2022. Statement 3 is correct — PAT, run by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency under the NMEEE, sets efficiency targets and lets over-achievers trade Energy Saving Certificates.

Pairs 1, 2 and 3 are correct — the river rises in Tibet as the Yarlung Tsangpo, enters Arunachal Pradesh as the Siang (site of the proposed Siang Upper Multipurpose Project), becomes the Brahmaputra in Assam after the Dibang and Lohit join near Sadiya, and enters Bangladesh as the Jamuna. Pair 4 is incorrect — Padma is the name of the Ganga in Bangladesh, which the Jamuna joins before it meets the Meghna.