Static GK in IBPS exams means banking awareness first. The awareness tests of PO, Clerk and RRB Mains name banking, economy, financial and digital awareness, and the questions that return every year are about the RBI and its functions, the monetary policy tools (repo, SDF, MSF, CRR, SLR), types of banks and accounts, NPAs, Basel norms, priority sector lending, payment systems such as UPI, NEFT, RTGS and IMPS, deposit insurance, financial inclusion schemes, and the regulators SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA and institutions such as NABARD and SIDBI. Headquarters and taglines of banks, capitals and currencies, national parks, dams and important days appear too, though with a smaller share than in SSC. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for banking exams, written as short facts and tables so that a topic can be revised in one sitting, with the terms and abbreviations that IBPS papers use. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what you retained, and come back to the notes for the facts you missed.
What is the capital of the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu?
The correct answer is C, Daman, which was made the capital of the merged Union Territory in 2020.
Read the full explanation →The Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu came into existence on
The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Act was passed in 2019 but was brought into force on Republic Day 2020, merging the two small Union Territories into one with its capital at Daman.
Read the full explanation →Energy-intensive industries and establishments notified under the Energy Conservation Act, 2001 are known as
The Act lists energy-intensive sectors in a schedule, and units in them above a notified threshold of annual energy consumption become designated consumers; each must appoint or designate an energy manager, have an energy audit carried out at prescribed intervals, keep records of energy consumed and comply with the consumption…
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was introduced by the Energy Conservation (Amendment) Act, 2022?
The 2022 amendment to the Energy Conservation Act empowered the Central Government to specify a carbon credit trading scheme, to prescribe a minimum share of non-fossil energy for designated consumers, and to extend the building code to large residential buildings.
Read the full explanation →The Energy Conservation Building Code, as launched in 2007, applied to new commercial buildings having a connected load of at least
The code was drawn up by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency for new commercial buildings with a connected load of 100 kW or more, or a contract demand of 120 kVA or more, and it prescribes requirements for the building envelope, lighting, air conditioning, water heating and electrical systems.
Read the full explanation →Under the Perform, Achieve and Trade scheme, a unit that exceeds its energy saving target is issued
PAT gives each designated consumer a target to reduce its specific energy consumption over a cycle; a plant that overshoots the target earns ESCerts and may sell them on the power exchanges to a plant that has fallen short, which turns efficiency into a tradable commodity.
Read the full explanation →National Energy Conservation Day is observed in India on
The Ministry of Power observes National Energy Conservation Day on this date every year, and the national energy conservation awards are given to industries, buildings and institutions that have cut their energy use.
Read the full explanation →ISEER, the Indian Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio, is used to rate which of the following?
ISEER measures the total cooling an air conditioner delivers over a cooling season divided by the electricity it consumes in that season, so it reflects part-load working in the Indian climate rather than performance at one fixed temperature; a higher ISEER means a more efficient machine, and the star bands…
Read the full explanation →Which organisation implements the UJALA and Street Lighting National Programme on the ground?
The correct answer is B, Energy Efficiency Services Limited, a joint venture of public sector undertakings under the Ministry of Power that procures LED bulbs and street lights in bulk and recovers the cost from consumers or from the savings in a municipality's electricity bill.
Read the full explanation →UJALA, the Government scheme for efficient lighting, stands for
The programme began as the Domestic Efficient Lighting Programme and was launched under the UJALA name on 5 January 2015, selling LED bulbs, tubelights and efficient ceiling fans to domestic consumers at a price far below the retail rate.
Read the full explanation →On a BEE star label pasted on an appliance, a greater number of stars indicates that the appliance
The star label places an appliance in a band from one star to five stars on the basis of its energy performance, so a five-star model is the most efficient and will show the lowest annual energy consumption in its size class.
Read the full explanation →The Bureau of Energy Efficiency functions under which Union Ministry?
BEE is an attached statutory body of the Ministry of Power, and its Governing Council is chaired by the Union Minister of Power.
Read the full explanation →The Bureau of Energy Efficiency was established under which of the following Acts?
That Act created the Bureau of Energy Efficiency as a statutory body and gave it the power to prescribe efficiency standards, run the labelling programme and prepare the building code; the Bureau came into existence on 1 March 2002 under the Ministry of Power.
Read the full explanation →GIST technology and the LEAP Office Indian language software suite were developed by
The correct answer is A, C-DAC, Pune, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, which besides building India's PARAM series of supercomputers created the GIST range of Indian language technology, including the add-on card and software that let ordinary computers display and print Indian scripts, and the LEAP Office suite…
Read the full explanation →The Technology Development for Indian Languages programme is run by which Union Ministry?
The Technology Development for Indian Languages programme, known as TDIL, develops and distributes fonts, dictionaries, corpora, optical character recognition, speech and machine translation tools for Indian languages, and it maintains a data centre from which these resources are shared.
Read the full explanation →In Devanagari text, the virama or halant sign is used to
Every Devanagari consonant carries an inherent short vowel, and the virama cancels it, giving the bare consonant; when a bare consonant is followed by another consonant the rendering engine joins the two into a conjunct or half form, which is why the virama is the key character in Devanagari text…
Read the full explanation →ASCII is a code of how many bits, and how many characters can it represent?
Standard ASCII uses seven bits, and two raised to the power seven is 128, which covers the uppercase and lowercase English letters, the ten digits, punctuation and thirty-three control characters.
Read the full explanation →In UTF-8, a typical Devanagari character is stored in how many bytes?
UTF-8 is a variable width encoding: code points up to U+007F take one byte, the next range takes two bytes, code points from U+0800 up to the end of the Basic Multilingual Plane take three bytes, and anything beyond that plane takes four.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is a Unicode Devanagari font supplied with Microsoft Windows and commonly used in Hindi typing tests?
The correct answer is A, Mangal, the Devanagari Unicode font shipped with Windows and the font that government typing tests pair with the InScript layout; later Windows versions also carry Nirmala UI, Aparajita, Kokila and Utsaah as Unicode Devanagari fonts.
Read the full explanation →Kruti Dev is an example of
Kruti Dev places Devanagari glyphs on the code positions of English letters, so the computer stores ordinary ASCII characters while the reader sees Hindi; open the file on a machine without that font and the text appears as meaningless Roman letters and symbols, and it cannot be searched or indexed.
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