UPSC Daily PIB Quiz for 6ᵗʰ October 2026

1) Consider the following statements regarding the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) 2025–26:

1. Unlike surveys that primarily measure traffic flows on roads, NHTS adopts a household-based approach, enabling travel behaviour to be examined alongside household and individual characteristics.
2. Under the survey's definition, every journey involving an overnight stay is automatically classified as an overnight trip, irrespective of the distance travelled.
3. Trips of one kilometre or less are excluded from the survey's travel estimates.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

2) Consider the following statements regarding Project Cheetah:

1. Reproduction by Indian-born cheetahs is significant because it indicates that the population is beginning to undergo natural demographic growth within the reintroduction landscape.
2. The introduction of a Botswana-origin male lineage can contribute to maintaining genetic diversity in India's founder population.
3. Project Cheetah seeks merely to establish a fixed population of cheetahs within Kuno National Park and does not envisage a metapopulation approach.
4. The ecological requirements of cheetahs make maintenance of open habitats particularly important because their hunting strategy relies substantially on high-speed pursuit.

How many of the above statements are correct?

3) A State Government wants to introduce SDG budget tagging so that expenditure can be mapped to specific SDG targets, gaps can be identified, and budgetary allocations can be linked with measurable development outcomes.

Which of the following institutional arrangements under NITI Aayog's State Support Mission would most directly support this objective?

4) Consider the following pairs:

How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?

5) With reference to the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), consider the following statements:

1. NSM seeks to build an indigenous ecosystem covering supercomputing hardware, system software, networking and applications.
2. The National Knowledge Network (NKN) provides high-speed connectivity for accessing supercomputing facilities across institutions.
3. PARAM Rudra systems are built using indigenously designed Rudra servers and an indigenous software stack.

Which of the statements given above are correct?