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.
The Dehlawas sewage treatment plant, the largest in Rajasthan, is located in which city?
The Dehlawas plant was built over 22.50 hectares during 2020-23 and has the highest sewage treatment capacity in Rajasthan, at 215 MLD.
Read the full explanation →How much treatment capacity will the sewage treatment plant projects approved under SBM 2.0 add?
Projects approved under Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 for setting up sewage treatment plants in small cities are expected to add exactly this much capacity, and the money behind them runs into several thousand crore rupees.
Read the full explanation →Which was the first city in India to receive the Water+ certification?
The city set out to keep untreated wastewater out of the environment altogether, and that approach made it the first to be given Water+ certification; today no untreated wastewater flows through its rivers or its natural and man-made stormwater drains.
Read the full explanation →Which research body was named as a bridge between technology development, validation and industry adoption?
Speaking at the event, H. D. Kumaraswamy underlined the role of institutions such as ARAI in bridging the gap between developing a technology, validating it and getting industry to adopt it, a role that fits naturally with the mobility focus of the supported technologies.
Read the full explanation →The MHI Industry Accelerator aimed to take supported technologies between which Technology Readiness Levels?
The objective of the grant-in-aid was to support the progression of ten technologies from Technology Readiness Level 3, an early stage where a concept has been proved in the laboratory, to Level 9, where a technology is proven in its operating environment and can be sold.
Read the full explanation →How much grant-in-aid did the MHI Industry Accelerator Programme provide for ten technologies?
The Accelerator Programme gave this amount as grant-in-aid for ten technologies, with the stated objective of moving them from Technology Readiness Level 3 to Level 9, that is, from an early laboratory stage to a product ready for the market.
Read the full explanation →Who became the first woman Chairperson of the Union Public Service Commission?
The correct answer is Rose Millian Bathew Kharbuli, who headed the Commission in 1992 and was the first woman to do so.
Read the full explanation →Which Part and Articles of the Constitution of India deal with the Union and State Public Service Commissions?
Dr B. R. Ambedkar moved these draft articles in the Constituent Assembly in 1949, and they became the constitutional charter of the Public Service Commissions.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the first Public Service Commission in India constituted?
India’s first Public Service Commission was constituted on 1 October 1926 as an advisory body, and the Commission therefore dates its own history from that year and completes a hundred years on 1 October 2026.
Read the full explanation →Which two test procedures will be used for reporting under the new CAFE framework?
Reporting under the new CAFE framework will be done on both the Modified Indian Driving Cycle and the Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicles Test Procedure.
Read the full explanation →Under the new CAFE norms, the list of recognised fuel-conservation technologies has been expanded from four to how many?
The earlier framework recognised four fuel-conservation technologies; the new norms widen that list to twelve, giving manufacturers far more room to earn credit for fuel-saving hardware.
Read the full explanation →The new CAFE norms tighten the fleet fuel-consumption benchmark to which level by 2031-32?
Under the new framework the fleet benchmark for fuel consumption begins at 3.996 litres per 100 km in 2027-28 and is tightened year after year until it reaches 3.3273 litres per 100 km in 2031-32.
Read the full explanation →Which Union ministry notified the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) norms for passenger vehicles?
The new CAFE norms for passenger vehicles were notified by the Ministry of Power, which handles energy efficiency in the country and works through the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, the body that will administer the credit buyout window under the framework.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following Sustainable Development Goals ensures availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all?
Sustainable Development Goal 6 is clean water and sanitation, and its aim is to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
Read the full explanation →Who is the Administrative Head of the Indian Audit and Accounts Department?
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India heads the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, the organisation through which the audit of Union and State accounts is actually carried out.
Read the full explanation →The Life Insurance Corporation of India Act was passed by the Parliament in the year ______.
Parliament passed the Life Insurance Corporation Act in 1956, and the Life Insurance Corporation of India began work on 1 September that year, after the life insurance business of 245 private insurers and provident societies was taken over and merged into it.
Read the full explanation →Who is the founder of Grameen Bank?
Muhammad Yunus, an economist from Bangladesh, founded Grameen Bank. He grew it out of a lending experiment begun in the village of Jobra in 1976, and the bank was given formal status by law in 1983.
Read the full explanation →Dholavira, the Harappan city inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2021, lies in which region of Gujarat?
Dholavira stands on Khadir island in the Rann of Kachchh and is known for its careful division into citadel, middle town and lower town, its series of stone water reservoirs and the so called signboard of large Harappan letters.
Read the full explanation →The Sardar Sarovar Dam is built on which river?
The Sardar Sarovar Dam stands on the Narmada in Narmada district of Gujarat, is the largest irrigation and power project of the state and carries canals into Saurashtra and Kachchh; the Statue of Unity was built nearby at Kevadia.
Read the full explanation →The Sun Temple at Modhera in Gujarat was built by which dynasty?
The correct answer is B, the Solankis, also called the Chalukyas of Gujarat, who ruled from Anhilwad Patan and built the temple to Surya at Modhera with its stepped tank, assembly hall and sanctum aligned so that light falls within it.
Read the full explanation →