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Banking GK Questions 2026

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.

Banking GK Questions with Answers

Q5502.Indian EconomyHard

Which body is the nodal agency for the Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme?

  1. A.Khadi and Village Industries Commission
  2. B.SIDBI
  3. C.NABARD
  4. D.National Small Industries Corporation
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Correct answer: A. Khadi and Village Industries Commission

The employment generation programme gives a bank loan with a government margin money subsidy to help a person set up a micro enterprise, and the Commission, set up in 1957 under the Ministry of MSME, is the national nodal agency, working through state boards and district industries centres.

Q5503.Indian EconomyHard

Which of the following industries still requires an industrial licence in India?

  1. A.Cement
  2. B.Industrial explosives
  3. C.Cotton textiles
  4. D.Sugar
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Correct answer: B. Industrial explosives

After the New Industrial Policy of 1991 licensing was abolished for almost all industries, and only a short list was kept under licence for reasons of security, health and social policy: defence equipment and aerospace, industrial explosives, specified hazardous chemicals, tobacco products such as cigarettes, and the distillation of alcoholic…

Q5504.Indian EconomyMedium

The MRTP Act of 1969 was replaced by which law?

  1. A.Competition Act, 2002
  2. B.Consumer Protection Act, 1986
  3. C.Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016
  4. D.FEMA, 1999
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Correct answer: A. Competition Act, 2002

The MRTP Act had been framed for an economy of licences and was concerned with the size of firms; the Competition Act shifted the focus to conduct, prohibiting anti competitive agreements and the abuse of a dominant position and regulating combinations, and it created the Competition Commission of India to…

Q5505.Indian EconomyMedium

Industrial licensing in India was made compulsory by which Act?

  1. A.Industries Development and Regulation Act, 1951
  2. B.MRTP Act, 1969
  3. C.FERA, 1973
  4. D.Companies Act, 1956
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Correct answer: A. Industries Development and Regulation Act, 1951

Under this Act a licence from the government was needed to set up a new factory, to expand capacity, to change the product line or to shift the location of a plant, which is how the state controlled the pattern of industrial growth until 1991.

Q5506.Indian EconomyMedium

Which document is described as the economic constitution of India?

  1. A.Industrial Policy Resolution of 1948
  2. B.Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956
  3. C.Industrial Policy Statement of 1977
  4. D.New Industrial Policy of 1991
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Correct answer: B. Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956

It set the framework in which Indian industry worked for more than three decades, dividing industry into three schedules: Schedule A reserved seventeen industries for the state, Schedule B marked twelve for growing state participation and Schedule C left the rest to private enterprise.

Q5509.Indian EconomyAsked in: SSC CGL · 18 Jan, 2025Hard

In December 1991, which Act was amended to bring public enterprises under the purview of the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction as part of the country's economic reforms programme?

  1. A.Industries Act
  2. B.Companies Act
  3. C.Financial Rehabilitation Act
  4. D.Sick Industrial Companies Act
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Correct answer: D. Sick Industrial Companies Act

This Act of 1985 had created the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction to deal with sick industrial units in the private sector.

Q5510.Indian EconomyAsked in: Uttar Pradesh · 5 Dec 2021Medium

In India, businesses with investment up to Rs. 1 Crore and turnover up to Rs. 5 Crore are known as:

  1. A.Tiny Enterprise
  2. B.Small Enterprise
  3. C.Micro Enterprise
  4. D.Medium Enterprise
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Correct answer: C. Micro Enterprise

Under the composite criteria notified in 2020, an enterprise with investment in plant, machinery or equipment up to one crore rupees and turnover up to five crore rupees is a micro enterprise, and the same ceilings apply whether it manufactures goods or renders services.

Q5511.Indian EconomyAsked in: UPSC CAPF · 20 Dec 2020Easy

What is meant by MSME?

  1. A.Medium, Small and Marginalized Enterprises
  2. B.Micro, Small and Marginalized Enterprises
  3. C.Medium, Strategic and Micro Enterprises
  4. D.Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
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Correct answer: D. Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

The expression comes from the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, which came into force on 2 October 2006 and gave the sector its first statutory definition, replacing the older language of small scale and ancillary industrial undertakings.

Q5513.Indian EconomyAsked in: RRB NTPC · 25 Mar, 2026, Shift 1Medium

During the 1990–91 balance of payments crisis, India's foreign exchange reserves were sufficient to finance imports for only:

  1. A.three months
  2. B.two weeks
  3. C.one month
  4. D.one week
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Correct answer: B. two weeks

By the middle of 1991 India's foreign exchange reserves had fallen to about one billion dollars, enough to pay for only about two weeks of imports, and the country stood close to default on its external payments.

Q5520.Indian EconomyAsked in: RRB NTPC · 13 Mar 2021, Shift 2Medium

Which of the following schemes is the Micro Finance Scheme for women with rebate in interest?

  1. A.National Maternity Benefit Scheme
  2. B.Social Security Pilot Scheme
  3. C.Mahila samriddhi Yojna
  4. D.Rajrajeshwari Mahila kalyan Yojna
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Correct answer: C. Mahila samriddhi Yojna

It is the micro-finance scheme under which women borrow small sums at a concessional rate of interest, so the rebate in interest is built into the scheme itself.

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