Banking GK Questions 2026

The split of responsibilities is the heart of this item and is worth memorising: the Rourkela Steel Plant of Steel Authority of India Limited gives the land and premises, the MSME ministry's scheme pays for the machinery, and the National Scheduled Tribes Finance and Development Corporation carries the running costs…

The correct answer is the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, which recognised the Rourkela centre as a Centre of Excellence and also meets its recurring expenses through a grant routed by the National Scheduled Tribes Finance and Development Corporation.

They co-organised the dedicated ministerial session at which state energy and agriculture ministers presented their approaches to scaling up agrivoltaics, showcased investment opportunities and discussed adapting the PM-KUSUM scheme to local crops.

The whole point of agrivoltaics is that farming continues under and around the solar panels, so the draft policy fixes a high floor for the share of each site that must stay fit for cultivation, and pairs it with safeguards on farmer consent and crop insurance.

Its Deputy Chief Minister told the ministerial track that the state is giving final shape to an Agrivoltaics Policy 2026 built around a target of 1 GW by 2030, under which at least ninety per cent of a project site must remain cultivable, farmer consent and crop insurance are protected…

The conference is run every year by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs under that policy, through the Institute of Urban Transport (India), and the policy itself stresses capacity building at state and city level while promoting equitable and sustainable urban transport systems.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is holding both events at Hotel Mayfair Sanctuary in the Odisha capital, with the state government as partner, and the curtain-raiser press conference was also held there.

The ministry's joint secretary announced this theme for the two-day conference in Bhubaneswar, and said sessions would look at sustainable low-carbon public transport, integration of modes, first and last mile connectivity, Mobility as a Service and real-time technology for passengers.

The Prime Minister used the antibiotic precursor Penicillin G as an illustration of how long-term policy can rebuild a lost industry.

The Prime Minister took up this framing directly and said it raises two questions: why the existing order is slipping and why legacy systems cannot answer today's challenges, and what role India plays in a world that is changing.

Addressing the summit in New Delhi, the Prime Minister listed a set of national firsts and said that India had crossed the figure of 300 gigawatts in non-fossil electricity capacity.

India beat Pakistan by 17 runs in the final of the Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup in Bangkok, Thailand, in December 2016.

The minister raised it precisely to make the point that regulation on its own cannot build a circular economy, because the demand side depends on how individuals choose to consume, and LiFE asks for deliberate and mindful use of resources instead of destructive consumption.

Under the EPR framework the registered recyclers number that much, while the registered producers are far more numerous.

That is the quantity of waste processed as on date across the waste streams that now carry their own rules, and the minister cited it as evidence that policy intent is being translated into measurable action.

That is the projection for the Indian chemical industry by 2030, and the growth outlook is attributed to rising domestic demand, expanding export opportunities, the demographic dividend, relatively low per capita consumption and supportive government measures.

It came in as the partner country for this edition, a step described as strengthening economic cooperation with India and opening fresh avenues for collaboration in chemicals and petrochemicals.

The theme frames the event as a platform for domestic and international stakeholders to share knowledge, build alliances and look for investment, and the minister repeated it when describing what the gathering was meant to achieve.

The railways works with it on moving coal out of the mines efficiently, while its coordination with the Ministry of Power is about sustaining transport and supply so that thermal plants hold enough stock to generate reliably.

This was the average daily dispatch of coal rakes to thermal power plants over the first six months of the financial year, and it was 7.1 per cent higher than the dispatch rate in the corresponding half of the year before.