Banking GK Questions 2026

The Eleventh Schedule was inserted by the Constitution (Seventy-third Amendment) Act, 1992 and lists twenty-nine subjects, from agriculture and minor irrigation to drinking water, rural housing, poverty alleviation and the public distribution system, which a State legislature may devolve on the panchayats under Article 243G. Option A is wrong because…

PMAY-Gramin provides unit assistance of 1.20 lakh rupees in the plain areas, released in instalments linked to the stage of construction and paid directly into the beneficiary's account.

Swachh Survekshan has been conducted since 2016 as part of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban, and it ranks cities on waste collection and processing, public and community toilets and citizen feedback.

Launched on 25 June 2015 by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, AMRUT funds water supply, sewerage and septage management, storm water drains, urban transport and green spaces in selected cities, and AMRUT 2.0 followed on 1 October 2021 with an emphasis on recycled water and the rejuvenation of…

The old rural housing scheme was restructured as PMAY-Gramin with effect from 20 November 2016, with beneficiaries now identified from the deprivation data of the Socio-Economic and Caste Census of 2011 and verified by the gram sabha instead of being chosen from the earlier below poverty line lists.

The urban half of the mission, including the construction of community and public toilets, solid waste management and the Swachh Survekshan ranking of cities, is with that ministry, and its second phase, SBM-Urban 2.0, was launched on 1 October 2021 for garbage free cities.

The mission is run by the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation in that ministry, which was itself created in 2019 by merging the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation with drinking water and sanitation.

The mission promises a functional household tap connection giving at least 55 litres of potable water per person per day of prescribed quality, a norm raised from the earlier rural standard.

PMAY-Gramin raised the minimum unit size to 25 square metres, which must include a dedicated area for hygienic cooking, an increase over the 20 square metres allowed under the Indira Awaas Yojana.

PMAY was launched on 25 June 2015, on the same day as AMRUT and the Smart Cities Mission, with the aim of a pucca house for every eligible family.

The declaration was timed for the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, exactly five years after the mission was launched, and the second phase then began with the goal of ODF Plus villages that sustain the status and manage solid and liquid waste.

The mission was launched on the 145th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, with the target of an open defecation free India by 2 October 2019, his 150th birth anniversary, and its logo is a pair of spectacles recalling him.

The methanol that sails from the Bogibeel Terminal at Dibrugarh to Pangaon Port in Dhaka has been produced by this company, and its Chairman, Bikul Ch.

The methanol consignment sailing from the Bogibeel Terminal at Dibrugarh to Pangaon Port in Dhaka moves on National Waterway-2, which is the Brahmaputra, and afterwards on the Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Route.

The vessel leaving the Bogibeel Terminal at Dibrugarh carries methanol made by Assam Petro-Chemicals Limited and sails to Pangaon Port, which lies at Dhaka in Bangladesh.

The Silk Mark Organisation of India has implemented the Silk Mark Scheme since that year, and the mark assures a buyer that the silk is pure.

Mera Resham Mera Abhimaan 2.0, the second round of the Central Silk Board campaign, was designed as a structured and outcome-driven drive across 218 key sericulture districts, and those districts together account for over 95 per cent of the country's raw silk output.

It is the platform named as a key initiative of the showcase, and it carries the stages of a cotton purchase online: enrolling the grower, booking a slot, sending messages about the purchase and making payment through Aadhaar.

The Ministry of Textiles is holding the special showcase of cotton sector reforms at Hyderabad in Telangana on 6 October 2026, and the event is run by the Cotton Corporation of India Ltd, a public sector undertaking of the ministry.

PARAM 8000 was developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing and unveiled in 1991 with a speed of 1 gigaflop, and it marked India's entry into indigenous supercomputing.