Rajasthan Current Affairs MCQ — 16 Questions

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The BRICS Tourism Ministers' Meeting concluded at Jaipur, Rajasthan on 21 August 2026 with consensus adoption of the BRICS Tourism Ministers' Communique 2026, the Jaipur Declaration. It capped the tourism track under India's 2026 BRICS Chairship, themed Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability. Its four priorities are AI and Tourism, Sustainability and Responsible Tourism, Tourism Skilling, and Tourism Exchanges with seamless travel. Nine member states took part.

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The BRICS Tourism Ministers' Meeting that adopted the Jaipur Declaration was chaired by Union Minister for Culture and Tourism Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. It concluded at Jaipur, Rajasthan on 21 August 2026 and capped the tourism track of India's 2026 BRICS Chairship. Nine member states joined; ministers from Brazil, Iran, South Africa and the UAE attended. Tourism Secretary Bhuvnesh Kumar was in the Indian delegation. Shekhawat stressed tourism's role in Viksit Bharat 2047.

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Students of the Mahatma Gandhi Government School at Pachpahar in Rajasthan Jhalawar district, guided by their teacher Dr. Divyendu Sen, took part in the IASC-NASA asteroid search campaign and collectively found 12 main-belt asteroids. More than 100 students have joined the programme. IASC stands for International Astronomical Search Collaboration, a citizen-science effort. The main asteroid belt lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

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Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah laid the foundation stone of a new dairy plant at the Saras Dairy Complex, Alwar, Rajasthan, on 16 August 2026. Costing Rs 200 crore, it will have an initial capacity of 3 lakh litres per day, expandable to 5 lakh litres per day. The event came under the Ministry of Cooperation's 'Sahkar se Samriddhi' vision. Four more Saras Dairy plants worth Rs 274 crore at Bhilwara, Jaipur, Pali and Rajsamand were commissioned the same day.

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Under the Panch Gaurav programme, Lisoda is Jaipur district's One District-One Plant Species. The district's other four are Amla as the crop, gems and jewellery as the product, kabaddi as the sport and Amer Fort as the tourism site. The Forest Department is the nodal agency for the plant species, with Agriculture, Industries, Tourism and Sports departments handling the other four. A state-level committee under the Chief Secretary and district committees under Collectors oversee the programme.

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The Brahmagupta Centre of Frontier Technologies is operational in Jaipur and runs three Centres of Excellence covering data analytics, cyber security and blockchain. It was announced in the Rajasthan Budget 2025-26 with Rs 300 crore for frontier technology research, and works under the Department of Information Technology and Communication. It is named after Brahmagupta, the seventh-century mathematician of Bhinmal, Jalore. The same budget gave Jodhpur a Disaster Recovery Data Centre.

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In the National Sports Awards 2025, announced on 18 August 2026, para-shooter Rudransh Khandelwal of Bharatpur, Rajasthan, was named for the Arjuna Award. Born on 19 November 2006, he lost his left leg below the knee in a firework accident at a family wedding in January 2015. He competes in SH1-class pistol events and has represented India at the Paris 2024 Paralympics and the Asian Para Games. Only two para-athletes made the 2025 Arjuna list, the other being Ekta Bhyan.

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Article 44 falls under the Directive Principles of State Policy in Part IV and directs the State to endeavour to secure a uniform civil code for all citizens. The Rajasthan Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, approved the draft UCC Bill in August 2026. Parliamentary Affairs and Law Minister Jogaram Patel said it will bring common rules on marriage, divorce, inheritance, maintenance and live-in relationships, and will not apply to Scheduled Tribes.

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The Rajasthan government set up a five-member committee headed by retired Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai to draft the RUCC 2026. It was announced on 22 June 2026 by Minister Jogaram Patel and Minister of State for Home Jawahar Singh Bedham. The Additional Chief Secretary (Home) is Member-Secretary. Desai also chaired the Uttarakhand and Gujarat UCC panels and was the first woman chairperson of the Press Council of India.

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Sandhya Vishnoi of Rajasthan won silver in the women's 46 kg category at the U-17 World Wrestling Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 31 July 2026. She lost the final 2-13 to Kokona Makino of Japan. The same day Akshara took silver in 53 kg, while Avanshika (61 kg) and Taniya (69 kg) won bronze. Governor Haribhau Bagde congratulated her, and she was felicitated at a ceremony in Jaipur.

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The Rajasthan Uniform Civil Code (RUCC) Bill, 2026 was drafted by a five-member expert committee headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, announced by Law Minister Jogaram Patel on 22 June 2026. The Cabinet under CM Bhajan Lal Sharma approved the draft on 13 August 2026 for the Assembly session beginning 20 August 2026. It follows Article 44 (Directive Principles) and will not apply to Scheduled Tribes. Desai also chaired the Uttarakhand and Gujarat UCC panels.

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The Rajasthan Cabinet chaired by CM Bhajan Lal Sharma approved the draft Rajasthan Trees (Protection) Bill, 2026 on 13 August 2026. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Jogaram Patel said it proposes protection for 29 species, including the state tree Khejri, state flower Rohida, banyan, peepal, lasoda, tendu, mahua, ker and chironji. It targets unpermitted felling on non-forest land and follows agitations to save Khejri in western Rajasthan. It goes to the Assembly session from 20 August 2026.

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The Rajasthan cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma on 7 August 2026, approved the Rajasthan Food Park Development Policy-2026. Under it, cluster-based modern food parks will be developed in a phased manner in every district of the state, providing facilities for processing, storage, preservation and export of farm produce and linking farmers and producer groups to a stronger supply chain. The same meeting also approved the Rajasthan Agriculture and Food Processing Policy-2026.

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At the Rajasthan cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma on 7 August 2026, labour reform decisions were taken under which workers' dearness allowance will now be raised twice a year, with a thirty-minute break made mandatory after five hours of work. The same meeting decided that government employees will receive State Insurance Scheme cover up to their actual date of retirement, instead of only up to 1 April of the retirement year.

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Chandipura virus belongs to the Rhabdoviridae family and the genus Vesiculovirus. It was first isolated in 1965 at Chandipura village in the Nagpur district of Maharashtra. It spreads mainly through Phlebotomus sandflies and causes sporadic monsoon outbreaks in western, central and southern India. It largely affects children under 15 and produces acute encephalitis syndrome. Exam angle: no specific vaccine or antiviral exists, so management is symptomatic and vector control is the main defence.

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Rajasthan's School Education and Panchayati Raj Minister Madan Dilawar launched the 'Apna Sankul Hariyalo Sankul' campaign on 4 August 2026 (Tuesday) by planting a bael (belpatra) sapling at the Dr Radhakrishnan Shiksha Sankul in Jaipur. It aims to make education-directorate campuses green and eco-friendly and to raise environmental awareness. He urged students, teachers and the public to join it, turn plantation into a mass movement, and nurture saplings into trees. It aligns with the state's wider Hariyalo Rajasthan / Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam mission.