Banking GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is Article 370. The PIB backgrounder on the 72nd National Film Awards lists the Hindi film Article 370, directed by Aditya Suhas Jambhale, as the Best Feature Film. The same film brought Yami Gautam the award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Shashwat Sachdev won Best Music Direction for its songs.

Each of the other three films also won, but in a different category, which is exactly why they make tempting distractors. Amaran, a Tamil film, earned Rajkumar Periasamy the award for Best Direction. Kalki 2898 AD, in Telugu, was named Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. Chandu Champion won Kartik Aaryan a share of the Best Actor award, which he holds jointly with Mammootty. When you revise an awards list, attach every film to its category, because examiners like to use the other winners of the same year as the wrong options.

The answer is 2025-26. Alongside the monetisation proposals, the twenty-first board meeting cleared the Annual Financial Statements and the Directors' Report for that financial year. These are routine items of corporate business, but they are exactly the kind of specific that a question will pick out precisely because candidates skim past them.

Option D is the strongest distractor, since the meeting itself took place during that year rather than after it, and accounts are approved for a year that has closed rather than one still running. Hold the three specifics from this meeting together and the whole item is covered: the twenty-first board meeting, assets worth over Rs 5,000 crore recommended, and accounts approved for 2025-26.

A small habit helps with items like this: when a release names a financial year, note whether it has closed or is still running, because that alone usually settles the question.

The answer is Central Public Sector Enterprises and other government entities. NLMC does not simply buy and sell. It works alongside whichever body owns the property, identifying which assets are suitable, carrying out due diligence, arranging a valuation and then structuring the process, with transparency, efficiency and value realisation as its stated priorities.

The other options describe owners the release does not mention. Option B in particular points in the wrong direction entirely, since this is public property being put to use, not a rescue of private firms. The purpose behind the whole exercise is worth remembering alongside the answer: unlocking the value of assets that sit underused on government books, which is why the corporation exists at all.

One more point of wording: monetisation is not always a sale. Depending on the structure, the state may lease an asset or take in a partner while keeping the title, so ownership does not necessarily change hands.

The answer is over Rs 5,000 crore. At its twenty-first board meeting, held on 18 September 2026, the National Land Monetization Corporation considered and recommended proposals covering assets of that value. What those assets are matters as much as the figure: surplus land and buildings, identified because they no longer serve the purpose they were acquired for.

The remaining options are round figures of the kind that make plausible distractors in a question about money, but none of them appears in the announcement. Two details are worth carrying with the figure, since a question may ask for either instead: it was the twenty-first meeting of the board, and the same sitting approved the Annual Financial Statements and Directors' Report for 2025-26.

The answer is 3,57,112 rural youth by 31 December 2027. This is the sanctioned target for the fourteen States and Union Territories reviewed in the first phase, and it sits well above what actually starts in October 2026, which is 34,920 young people in 1,164 batches. The gap between the two figures is the point of the review: the Ministry is pressing States to move faster so the target is reached in time.

Each wrong option pairs a real figure with the wrong deadline or the wrong scope. The 5.6 lakh in option D belongs to the national allocation across more than 1,200 projects by 24 States and Union Territories, not to these fourteen. Targets for the second phase run over the two-year period 2026-28 and cover all 31 participating States and Union Territories.

The answer is the Ministry of Rural Development, which is reviewing State readiness and rolling out the second phase of the scheme. The placement of DDU-GKY under Rural Development rather than under Skill Development is the point worth fixing in memory, because the name contains the word Kaushalya and the obvious guess is therefore wrong.

The clue is in the rest of the name: Grameen. The scheme is aimed at poor rural youth specifically, which is what puts it in the rural development portfolio. It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme, its training is tied to placement rather than ending at a certificate, and courses run from three months up to twelve. The other ministries listed all work on employment or training in some form, which is exactly what makes them effective distractors.

The answer is 34,920. Four figures travel together in this item and the question turns on keeping them apart. 34,920 is the number of rural young people starting training in October 2026; 1,164 is the number of batches they are divided into; 3,57,112 is the far larger sanctioned target for the same fourteen States and Union Territories, to be met by 31 December 2027; and 5.6 lakh is the total already allocated across more than 1,200 projects by 24 States and Union Territories.

So option C is the batch count, option B is the sanctioned target and option D is the wider allocation, each a real figure from the announcement but an answer to a different question. A useful ordering is smallest to largest: batches, then the October intake, then the sanctioned target, then the national allocation.