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NABARD GK Questions 2026

The static part of NABARD's awareness tests is economics, rural society and agriculture more than history or sports. The Grade A syllabus for Economic & Social Issues covers the nature of the Indian economy, reforms, inflation, poverty and its measurement, population policy, rural credit, industrial policy, banking reforms, international institutions, social structure, education, social justice and human development. The Agriculture & Rural Development syllabus covers agronomy, soils and irrigation, farm engineering, horticulture, animal husbandry, fisheries, forestry, extension, ecology and climate change, agricultural finance and marketing, and rural development programmes and Panchayati Raj. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for NABARD. Each note is written as short facts and tables, so a topic can be revised in one sitting. The Indian Economy notes serve most of ESI. The Indian Polity notes cover Panchayati Raj and social justice. The Geography notes cover soils, irrigation, climate and forests, and the Environment and Ecology notes cover climate change and its international bodies. The Computer notes serve the Computer Knowledge test, and Static GK helps with General Awareness. Agronomy, animal husbandry and fisheries go beyond general GK, so use the advertisement's ARD list as a checklist for them. Read a note, then take its quiz on this site to check what you retained.

NABARD GK Questions with Answers

Q283.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Under which scheme can a bank customer approach the Reserve Bank of India free of cost if the bank does not resolve a complaint within thirty days?

  1. A.The Banking Codes and Standards Scheme
  2. B.The Reserve Bank Integrated Ombudsman Scheme, 2021
  3. C.The Deposit Insurance Scheme
  4. D.The Consumer Welfare Fund Scheme
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Correct answer: B. The Reserve Bank Integrated Ombudsman Scheme, 2021

The scheme merged the separate ombudsman schemes for banks, for non-banking financial companies and for digital transactions into a single one nation one ombudsman arrangement, with a centralised centre to receive and process complaints in any language.

Q284.Banking & Financial AwarenessHard

The Positive Pay System introduced by the Reserve Bank of India applies to cheques of what value and above?

  1. A.Rupees 10,000
  2. B.Rupees 50,000
  3. C.Rupees 2 lakh
  4. D.Rupees 5 lakh
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Correct answer: B. Rupees 50,000

Under the Positive Pay System the issuer of a high value cheque sends the bank the key details, such as date, beneficiary name and amount, through a channel like the mobile app or internet banking, and the paying bank matches those details before honouring the cheque.

Q289.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

If a customer loses money because he shared his one-time password with a caller, how is the loss shared?

  1. A.The bank bears the entire loss
  2. B.The customer bears the entire loss, before and after reporting
  3. C.The customer bears the loss till reporting; the bank bears the loss after reporting
  4. D.The loss is shared equally in all cases
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Correct answer: C. The customer bears the loss till reporting; the bank bears the loss after reporting

Sharing a PIN, password or one-time password is treated as customer negligence, and in that case the circular makes the customer bear the whole loss up to the time the fraud is reported.

Q291.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

A bank must resolve a complaint of an unauthorised electronic transaction and determine the customer's liability within a maximum of:

  1. A.30 days from the complaint
  2. B.60 days from the complaint
  3. C.90 days from the complaint
  4. D.180 days from the complaint
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Correct answer: C. 90 days from the complaint

The circular requires every bank to have a board-approved policy fixing its own resolution period, and caps that period at ninety days from the date the complaint is received.

Q292.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Within how many working days of a customer's notification must a bank make a shadow reversal of the disputed amount?

  1. A.Three working days
  2. B.Seven working days
  3. C.Ten working days
  4. D.Thirty working days
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Correct answer: C. Ten working days

A shadow reversal is a provisional credit of the disputed amount into the customer's account. The circular requires the bank to make it within ten working days of the customer's notification, and specifically says the bank may not wait for any insurance claim of its own to be settled first.

Q293.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

For a Basic Savings Bank Deposit account, what is the maximum liability of a customer who reports a third-party breach between four and seven working days?

  1. A.Rupees 5,000
  2. B.Rupees 10,000
  3. C.Rupees 25,000
  4. D.Nil in all cases
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Correct answer: A. Rupees 5,000

The Reserve Bank's liability table sets the lowest ceiling for Basic Savings Bank Deposit accounts, which are the no-frills accounts opened for financial inclusion, because their holders are the least able to absorb a loss.

Q294.Banking & Financial AwarenessEasy

In a case of third-party breach, within how many working days must a customer report an unauthorised electronic banking transaction to have zero liability?

  1. A.One working day
  2. B.Three working days
  3. C.Seven working days
  4. D.Fifteen working days
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Correct answer: B. Three working days

Under the Reserve Bank's circular of 6 July 2017, where the fault lies neither with the bank nor with the customer but somewhere else in the system, the customer's liability is nil if the unauthorised transaction is reported within three working days of receiving the bank's communication about it.

Q295.Banking & Financial AwarenessHard

Under the Central Repository of Information on Large Credits, banks report borrower-wise data on aggregate exposures of at least:

  1. A.Rupees one crore
  2. B.Rupees five crore
  3. C.Rupees ten crore
  4. D.Rupees fifty crore
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Correct answer: B. Rupees five crore

The Central Repository of Information on Large Credits, usually shortened to CRILC, is a database maintained by the Reserve Bank in which banks report details of every borrower whose aggregate exposure, funded and non-funded together, is five crore rupees or more.

Q296.Banking & Financial AwarenessHard

Which of the following is NOT one of the four indicators used to compute a bank's systemic importance score under the D-SIB framework?

  1. A.Size
  2. B.Interconnectedness
  3. C.Profitability
  4. D.Complexity
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Correct answer: C. Profitability

The systemic importance score of a bank is built from four indicators: size, interconnectedness, substitutability and complexity. Size carries the highest weight because the sheer scale of a bank's balance sheet decides how much damage its failure would do.

Q298.Banking & Financial AwarenessHard

The Board for Financial Supervision of the Reserve Bank of India is chaired by which official?

  1. A.The Union Finance Minister
  2. B.The Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
  3. C.The Finance Secretary
  4. D.The Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India
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Correct answer: B. The Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

The Board for Financial Supervision was constituted in November 1994 so that supervision of banks, select all-India financial institutions and non-banking financial companies would get undivided attention.

Q300.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Under the PCA framework, restriction on the distribution of dividends is a mandatory action at which stage?

  1. A.Risk Threshold 1
  2. B.Risk Threshold 2
  3. C.Risk Threshold 3
  4. D.Only after the bank is placed under moratorium
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Correct answer: A. Risk Threshold 1

The first set of mandatory actions, applied as soon as a bank crosses Risk Threshold 1, is a restriction on dividend distribution or remittance of profits, together with a requirement that the promoters, owners or the parent of a foreign bank infuse capital.