Banking GK Questions 2026

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act of 2005, renamed after Mahatma Gandhi in 2009, gives every rural household whose adult members are willing to do unskilled manual work a legal right to 100 days of such work in a financial year, with work to be provided within fifteen days of…

Sukanya Samriddhi was opened in 2015 as part of the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign: a guardian may open an account in the name of a girl child below the age of ten at a post office or a bank, deposit a small sum every year, and draw the maturity…

It places on the State the duty to raise the level of nutrition and the standard of living of its people and to improve public health, and a health assurance scheme such as Ayushman Bharat, which gives a cover of five lakh rupees a family a year for hospital treatment…

The Atal Pension Yojana, launched in 2015 and administered by the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority, is open to a bank account holder between 18 and 40 years of age, who contributes until the age of 60 and then draws a guaranteed monthly pension of between one thousand and…

The Swachh Bharat Mission was launched on 2 October 2014, and its rural wing completed the first phase of toilet building with the declaration of open defecation free villages in 2019.

In 1989 the National Rural Employment Programme of 1980 and the Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme of 1983 were brought together into a single wage employment programme named the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana, which was run through the panchayats and remained the main rural employment programme of the early 1990s. Option…

Under the Regional Connectivity Scheme called UDAN, which stands for Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik and was launched in 2016, the fare on a subsidised seat is capped at about 2,500 rupees for an hour of flight on a fixed-wing aircraft, and the difference between that fare and the cost…

Ecowrap is the research report of the State Bank of India, brought out by its economic research department. Ecowrap is written by the team of the group chief economic adviser at SBI and comments on growth, inflation, bank credit, government finances and the state of households.

That is the wording of Sustainable Development Goal 6, the water and sanitation goal. The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by the United Nations in September 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda, and they replaced the eight Millennium Development Goals.

Interest paid on the government's past borrowing is the classic non-plan expenditure, because it is a committed charge the Centre must meet whatever its plans are.

In the consumer-to-business model the consumer names the price or the terms and the business then accepts or declines the offer, so the usual direction of an offer is reversed.

The law of demand says that, other things remaining equal, a rise in the price of a good reduces the quantity demanded and a fall in price raises it, so the two move in opposite directions.

NITI Aayog, the National Institution for Transforming India, was set up by a Cabinet resolution on 1 January 2015 and took the place of the Planning Commission, which had run since 1950.

Skill is built on schooling and training, so a workforce in which a large share of workers is illiterate or barely schooled cannot absorb technical instruction the way a fully literate one can.

Money has a time value, so a rupee received years later is worth less than a rupee in hand, and every cash flow of a project is first brought to today's value before a decision is taken.

The Special Gram Sabhas opened the People's Plan Campaign, and the plans the Panchayats will draw up under it are for the financial year 2027-28, which is the year after the campaign year itself.

This is the amount the Sixteenth Finance Commission has recommended for Rural Local Bodies for the award period 2026-31, and it marks an increase of nearly 84 per cent over what the Fifteenth Finance Commission provided, with the annual per capita grant rising from about Rs 400 to nearly Rs…

The correct answer is Sabki Yojana, Sabka Vikas, the title of the People's Plan Campaign for the year, under which Panchayats will prepare their Panchayat Development Plans for the financial year that follows.

That many Special Gram Sabhas were scheduled across the country on the GPDP Portal and the Panchayat NIRNAY Portal for Gandhi Jayanti, and they were attended by residents, elected representatives, Panchayat functionaries and officials.

The two sides agreed to look at working together in the seed sector through a work plan that would name the key areas of cooperation and lay down a clear framework for effective implementation, and this was the new area taken up alongside the review of existing cooperation.