IBPS GK Questions 2026

One Stop Centres, launched in 2015 and financed from the Nirbhaya Fund, are called Sakhi centres and bring medical aid, police assistance, legal aid, psychological counselling and temporary shelter for a woman affected by violence under one roof.

POSHAN Abhiyaan was launched there on 8 March 2018, International Women Day, with the aim of reducing stunting, undernutrition, anaemia among women and children and low birth weight through convergence of departments, use of technology and community mobilisation.

The project was launched in March 2022 by the Minister of Women and Child Development, who then held that office, in collaboration with the national mental health institute at Bengaluru, to train the staff of One Stop Centres in handling the mental health needs of women affected by violence.

The scheme, which began on 1 January 2017 and is run by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, pays this amount in instalments on conditions such as early registration of pregnancy and immunisation of the child, as partial compensation for the wages a woman loses during pregnancy and after…

The scheme was launched on 2 October 1975 and is the oldest and largest programme for children in India, delivering supplementary nutrition, pre-school education, immunisation, health check-ups, referral services and health education for mothers through anganwadi centres.

Under the Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana, launched on 22 January 2015, a parent or legal guardian may open the account for a girl at any time before she completes the age of ten years, for a maximum of two girls in one family, and the account matures twenty-one years after it…

The scheme was launched on 22 January 2015 from Panipat because Haryana had one of the lowest child sex ratios in the country in the Census of 2011, and the launch was meant to carry the message from the worst affected region.

Oil was struck at Digboi in upper Assam at the end of the nineteenth century and the refinery there, set up in 1901, is the oldest still in operation in the country.

The Godavari rises at Trimbakeshwar in the Nashik district of Maharashtra, and Nashik stands on its upper course, which is also why the city hosts one of the four Kumbh Melas.

Firozabad has made glass for generations and supplies most of the glass bangles sold in India, along with chandeliers and laboratory glassware.

Rourkela, built in the Second Five Year Plan, was set up with West German collaboration, close to the iron ore of Odisha and the coal of the Chhotanagpur plateau.

The Danube rises in the Black Forest of Germany, flows east through central Europe and reaches the Black Sea, and it passes the capitals of Austria, Hungary and Serbia, which is why it is said to water more capital cities than any other river in the world.

Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh and the old seat of the Nawabs of Awadh, stands on the Gomti, a tributary of the Ganga that rises in the Pilibhit district.

Its cotton textile mills, which began in the 1860s and multiplied in the early twentieth century, earned it the comparison with the English mill town of Manchester.

The Tata Iron and Steel Company plant of 1907 was built at Sakchi, later renamed Jamshedpur, where the Subarnarekha and its tributary the Kharkai meet, close to the coal of Jharia and the iron ore of Odisha.

Hyderabad was founded in 1591 on the Musi, a tributary of the Krishna, and the Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar reservoirs built on the Musi still help supply the city.

Ahmedabad was founded by Ahmad Shah in 1411 on the left bank of the Sabarmati, and the river gives its name to the Sabarmati Ashram from which Gandhi began the Dandi march in 1930.

The correct answer is 8 October 2026, the date from which the new technology area becomes eligible for funding under the RDI Scheme.

The RDI Scheme was launched in November 2025 with a corpus of that size, meant to catalyse private-sector investment in research, development and innovation rather than to fund government laboratories alone.

The Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals is wrong in this context because DCPC was the proposer, not the approving authority: it had sought that chemicals and petrochemicals be treated as a priority area and DST accepted that request.