The static part of banking awareness is mostly banking and the economy; history and geography get a smaller share than in SSC exams. The test names say so: General/Economy/Banking Awareness including RBI circulars in IBPS PO, General Awareness/ Economy/ Banking Knowledge in SBI PO, and General/Financial Awareness in the clerk exams. Questions keep returning to the RBI and its functions, monetary policy tools such as the repo rate, CRR and SLR, types of banks and accounts, NPAs, KYC, priority sector lending, payment systems such as UPI, NEFT and RTGS, regulators such as SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA, development institutions such as NABARD and SIDBI, the Budget and the Economic Survey. RBI Grade B and NABARD Grade A go further, with full papers on Economic and Social Issues, and NABARD on Agriculture and Rural Development: agronomy, irrigation, animal husbandry, climate change and rural development schemes. Some static GK still appears: headquarters and heads of banks, currencies and capitals, and important days. This page gathers GK24's topic-wise GK notes for banking exams, in English and Hindi, in short facts and tables. Read one topic at a sitting, then take its topic quiz to see what you remember.
How many Fast Track Special Courts are provided for under the extended scheme?
The extended scheme provides for the operationalisation of 850 Fast Track Special Courts across participating States and Union Territories, which is an expansion from the 779 that are functional at present.
Read the full explanation →What is the total financial outlay approved for the continuation of the Fast Track Special Courts scheme?
The Union Cabinet approved the continuation of the Centrally Sponsored Scheme for Fast Track Special Courts, exclusive POCSO courts included, for a further five years with this total outlay.
Read the full explanation →What minimum Domestic Content Requirement has been set for Battery Energy Storage System projects under the scheme?
Battery Energy Storage System projects seeking support under the scheme must satisfy a minimum Domestic Content Requirement of 40 per cent.
Read the full explanation →Of the 92 GWh of storage capacity supported by the scheme, how much is hydro Pumped Storage Plant capacity?
The scheme envisages 60 GWh of hydro Pumped Storage Plant capacity, 30 GWh of Battery Energy Storage System capacity and 2 GWh of capacity through alternative energy storage technologies, which add up to the headline figure of 92 GWh.
Read the full explanation →What is the total financial support under the Viability Gap Funding Scheme for grid-scale energy storage approved by the Union Cabinet?
The Union Cabinet cleared the Viability Gap Funding Scheme for Development of Grid-Scale Energy Storage Systems with this amount of support for the period FY 2026-27 to FY 2030-31.
Read the full explanation →Which Economic Census is to be carried out under the Economic Census component of VISTAR?
It forms the third component of VISTAR and will be undertaken by MoSPI together with the States and Union Territories.
Read the full explanation →How many surveys will MoSPI conduct under VISTAR during the 16th Finance Commission cycle?
Under the component called Comprehensive Statistical Operations and Strengthening of Ecosystem, the ministry proposes to conduct 59 surveys during the 16th Finance Commission cycle.
Read the full explanation →VISTAR, the statistics scheme approved by the Union Cabinet, stands for which of the following?
The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, cleared this central sector scheme of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation for the period FY 2026-27 to FY 2030-31 with an outlay of Rs 4,371.10 crore.
Read the full explanation →How are beneficiaries selected under the Capex Support Scheme to Promote Critical Mineral Processing?
Selection runs in two stages. In the first, applications are examined for technical qualification, and only applicants who clear that stage may take part in the second stage of financial bidding.
Read the full explanation →Under the scheme, what is the minimum capacity prescribed for each nickel processing plant?
The scheme funds four critical mineral processing plants in all. Two of them process nickel and each must have a minimum capacity of 50 kt, while the other two process lithium and each must have a minimum capacity of 30 kt.
Read the full explanation →What is the total financial outlay of the Capex Support Scheme to Promote Critical Mineral Processing approved by the Union Cabinet?
The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, approved the Capex Support Scheme to Promote Critical Mineral Processing with exactly this outlay, spread across five years from FY 2026-27 to FY 2030-31.
Read the full explanation →Under the proposed amendment, how is any microbial growth detected in a Grade A area to be treated?
Besides revising the numerical limits, the draft adopts the World Health Organization position that the detection of any microbial growth in a Grade A area must itself set off an investigation, rather than being measured against a permitted level and passed over.
Read the full explanation →In sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing, a Grade A area is the zone where which of the following is done?
A Grade A area is described as the critical zone of a sterile medicine plant, the place where a product still lies open, where containers are handled, and where components that have already been sterilised are dealt with before the product is closed and sealed.
Read the full explanation →The revised Grade A microbial monitoring requirements proposed for Schedule M are aligned with which World Health Organization document?
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said that the revised limits for microbial contamination in Grade A clean areas are being drawn from the World Health Organization Technical Report Series No. 1044, and specifically from its Annexure 2, which carries Good Manufacturing Practices for sterile pharmaceutical products.
Read the full explanation →Schedule M, which the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has proposed to amend, belongs to which set of rules?
Schedule M sits inside the Drugs Rules, 1945, and it is this schedule that the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has proposed to amend.
Read the full explanation →According to the appeal, which initiative is widening access to Ayush-based healthcare services at the community level?
The minister named these as the channel through which Ayush-based health services are reaching people where they live, and he paired the point with a call for scientific research, quality standards and evidence-based practice in India's traditional systems of medicine.
Read the full explanation →The Ayurvedic principle 'Swasthasya Swasthya Rakshanam' refers to which of the following?
The Ayush Minister cited this maxim to make the case that prevention deserves as much attention as treatment, noting that discussion of health usually begins only after an illness has already developed.
Read the full explanation →Who is the Union Minister of State with Independent Charge for Ayush who issued the Dhanteras health appeal?
It was in that capacity that he appealed to citizens to make health and disease prevention part of their Dhanteras observance.
Read the full explanation →Dhanteras is also observed as which of the following?
Dhanteras is observed in that form as well, and the day recalls the appearance of Lord Dhanvantari during the Samudra Manthan, the churning of the ocean, when he emerged bearing the Amrit Kalash.
Read the full explanation →The CSIR-DAKSHIN agreement is chiefly aimed at strengthening which kind of cooperation?
The whole design of the pact rests on it: DAKSHIN works for the countries of the Global South, and CSIR is bringing its ready-to-deploy, affordable and adaptable technologies to that group.
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