IBPS GK Questions 2026

The Election Commission of India was constituted on 25 January 1950, a day before the Constitution came into force, and the day has been observed as National Voters' Day since 2011 to enrol young citizens who turn eighteen and to hand them the elector photo identity card.

The machine was used for the first time in 1982 at the Paravur assembly constituency in Kerala, in a by-election and only in a part of the polling stations; the experiment was challenged for want of a statutory basis, Parliament then amended the law in 1989 to permit the machine…

This committee reported in 1998 on state funding of elections and recommended that funding be partial, be given in kind rather than as cash, and be confined to recognised national and state parties, with the caution that the state of public finances allowed only a limited beginning.

In this judgment of 2013 the Supreme Court held that the right to reject every candidate is part of the freedom of expression and of the secrecy of the ballot, and it directed the Election Commission to provide a None of the Above button; the Commission used it from the…

The Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968 was issued by the Election Commission under Article 324 and the Conduct of Elections Rules, and it governs the recognition of national and state parties, the reservation of symbols for them, the list of free symbols for other candidates, and disputes between…

Section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 is the provision under which an association or body of individual citizens applies to the Election Commission for registration as a political party, and the application must carry a specific undertaking of true faith and allegiance to the Constitution, to…

The Tenth Schedule was added by the Fifty-second Amendment in 1985 and it disqualifies a member of Parliament or of a state legislature who voluntarily gives up the membership of the party on whose ticket the seat was won, or who votes or abstains against the party direction; the Speaker…

The Constitution (Sixty-first Amendment) Act, 1988 amended Article 326 and lowered the qualifying age for a voter from twenty-one to eighteen years, and it took effect in March 1989, so the general election of 1989 was the first in which eighteen-year-olds voted.

The elephant is the reserved symbol of the Bahujan Samaj Party, founded by Kanshi Ram in 1984; because the elephant is also used by another party in Assam and Sikkim, the Election Commission allots it to the Bahujan Samaj Party elsewhere, a detail that shows how reserved symbols work under…

Article 324 places the superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of electoral rolls and the conduct of all elections to Parliament, to the state legislatures and to the offices of President and Vice-President in the Election Commission of India, and this is the Article the Commission relies on when…

Decimal coinage came into force on 1 April 1957 under the Indian Coinage Amendment Act, and the rupee, which had earlier been divided into sixteen annas, each of four pice or twelve pies, was divided into one hundred paise; the new coin was called the naya paisa until 1964, when…

Every banknote above one rupee is issued by the Reserve Bank under Section 22 of its Act and carries the promise to pay the bearer, signed by the Governor, which is why these notes are called promissory notes of the Bank.

On 19 May 2023 the Reserve Bank announced the withdrawal of the two thousand rupee note from circulation under its Clean Note Policy and asked banks to stop issuing it, while making it clear that the note was not being demonetised and would remain legal tender; holders were given a…

The notes of five hundred and one thousand rupees in the Mahatma Gandhi series ceased to be legal tender from the midnight of 8 November 2016, the stated purposes being action against unaccounted money, counterfeit currency and the financing of terrorism; a new five hundred rupee note and a two…

The High Denomination Bank Notes (Demonetisation) Act was passed in January 1978, when the Janata Party government led by Morarji Desai was in office, and it withdrew the notes of one thousand, five thousand and ten thousand rupees that had been reintroduced in 1954.

The rupee symbol was adopted by the Union Cabinet on 15 July 2010 after a public competition, and the winning design by D. Udaya Kumar, then a research scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, joins the Devanagari letter ra with the Roman capital R and carries two parallel…

Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited was set up in 1995 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank and runs the two banknote presses at Mysuru in Karnataka and Salboni in West Bengal.

The mint of an Indian coin can be read from the small mark placed below the year of minting, and a five-pointed star stands for the Hyderabad mint.

An amendment of the Reserve Bank of India Act in 1956 replaced the proportional reserve system with the Minimum Reserve System, under which the Bank must hold assets worth two hundred crore rupees against the note issue, of which gold must be not less than one hundred fifteen crore rupees…

Section 24 of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 permits banknotes of denominations up to ten thousand rupees, so a note of a higher value would need an amendment of the Act by Parliament.