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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

Q622.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

The Reserve Bank of India issued its final guidelines for the licensing of payments banks and small finance banks in which year?

  1. A.2012
  2. B.2014
  3. C.2016
  4. D.2019
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Correct answer: B. 2014

The Reserve Bank released the final guidelines for licensing both payments banks and small finance banks on the twenty seventh of November 2014, acting on the report of the Nachiket Mor Committee on Comprehensive Financial Services for Small Businesses and Low Income Households.

Q623.Banking & Financial AwarenessEasy

Which authority regulates payment systems in India under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007?

  1. A.The Securities and Exchange Board of India
  2. B.The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
  3. C.The Reserve Bank of India
  4. D.The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India
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Correct answer: C. The Reserve Bank of India

The Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 makes the Reserve Bank the designated authority for the regulation and supervision of payment systems in India; no person may commence or operate a payment system without its authorisation, and it issues the directions under which card networks, prepaid instruments and the retail…

Q624.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development was established under an Act of which year?

  1. A.1976
  2. B.1981
  3. C.1991
  4. D.2002
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Correct answer: B. 1981

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Act was passed in 1981 on the recommendation of the committee to review arrangements for institutional credit for agriculture and rural development, and NABARD itself was established on 12 July 1982 as the apex body for rural credit, refinancing cooperative banks and…

Q625.Banking & Financial AwarenessHard

Section 35A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 empowers the Reserve Bank of India to:

  1. A.Issue directions to banking companies in the public interest
  2. B.Grant a licence to a new banking company
  3. C.Fix the minimum paid-up capital of a bank
  4. D.Prescribe the Cash Reserve Ratio for scheduled banks
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Correct answer: A. Issue directions to banking companies in the public interest

Section 35A lets the Reserve Bank give directions to banking companies, generally or to a particular bank, where it is satisfied that this is necessary in the public interest, in the interest of banking policy, to prevent the affairs of a bank being conducted in a manner detrimental to depositors…

Q626.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

The Bankers' Books Evidence Act deals mainly with:

  1. A.The interest rate a bank may charge on advances
  2. B.The use of certified copies of entries in a bank's books as evidence in legal proceedings
  3. C.The insurance of deposits held by a bank
  4. D.The appointment of auditors of a banking company
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Correct answer: B. The use of certified copies of entries in a bank's books as evidence in legal proceedings

The Act allows a certified copy of an entry in a banker's book to be received in a legal proceeding as prima facie proof of that entry, so that a bank need not produce its original records and its officers are summoned only in limited circumstances.

Q627.Banking & Financial AwarenessHard

The nationalisation of fourteen major commercial banks announced in July 1969 was given lasting legal effect by which Act?

  1. A.The State Bank of India Act, 1955
  2. B.The Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970
  3. C.The Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  4. D.The Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976
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Correct answer: B. The Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970

Fourteen banks were nationalised on 19 July 1969 by an ordinance; after the Supreme Court struck down the ordinance and the Act that followed it, Parliament enacted the Act of 1970, and a similar Act of 1980 covered the six banks nationalised on 15 April 1980.

Q628.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Debt Recovery Tribunals in India were established under an Act of which year?

  1. A.1949
  2. B.1985
  3. C.1993
  4. D.2002
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Correct answer: C. 1993

The Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993, passed after the Tiwari Committee recommended a special forum for bank dues, created the Debt Recovery Tribunals and the Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunals to decide applications by banks and financial institutions above a prescribed amount and to issue…

Q629.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Which Act enables a bank to take possession of the security for a loan without the intervention of a court?

  1. A.The Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993
  2. B.The SARFAESI Act, 2002
  3. C.The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016
  4. D.The Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002
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Correct answer: B. The SARFAESI Act, 2002

Its full name is the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, and Section 13 lets a secured creditor issue a demand notice under sub-section (2) giving the borrower sixty days to pay and, on default, take possession of the secured asset under sub-section (4)…

Q630.Banking & Financial AwarenessEasy

Dishonour of a cheque for insufficiency of funds in the account is an offence under which section of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881?

  1. A.Section 31
  2. B.Section 118
  3. C.Section 138
  4. D.Section 148
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Correct answer: C. Section 138

Inserted into the Negotiable Instruments Act by the amendment of 1988, it makes the drawer of a cheque that is returned unpaid for insufficiency of funds, or because it exceeds the arrangement, punishable with imprisonment or fine, provided the payee gives notice of demand within the prescribed time and the…

Q631.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

The Statutory Liquidity Ratio is prescribed under which provision?

  1. A.Section 42(1) of the RBI Act, 1934
  2. B.Section 24 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  3. C.Section 17 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  4. D.Section 45-IA of the RBI Act, 1934
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Correct answer: B. Section 24 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949

It requires every banking company to maintain in India, in cash, gold or unencumbered approved securities, assets of a value not less than the prescribed percentage of its demand and time liabilities, and that percentage is the Statutory Liquidity Ratio.

Q633.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

The Banking Companies Act, 1949 was renamed the Banking Regulation Act with effect from:

  1. A.1 April 1935
  2. B.1 January 1949
  3. C.1 March 1966
  4. D.19 July 1969
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Correct answer: C. 1 March 1966

The Act was passed in 1949 as the Banking Companies Act and came into force on 16 March 1949; when its scope was extended to cooperative banks, it was renamed the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 with effect from 1 March 1966, the year being retained in the title.

Q634.Banking & Financial AwarenessEasy

Which Act gives the Reserve Bank of India the sole right to issue bank notes in India?

  1. A.The Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  2. B.The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934
  3. C.The Coinage Act, 2011
  4. D.The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
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Correct answer: B. The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934

Section 22 of that Act gives the Reserve Bank the sole right to issue bank notes in India, and the Bank has done so since it began operations on 1 April 1935.

Q635.Science & TechnologyHard

What will the second phase of the ICAR-FCI fumigation project involve?

  1. A.A two-year laboratory study at a single institute
  2. B.A one-year multi-location trial across agro-climatic zones
  3. C.Immediate nationwide rollout of nitrogen fumigation
  4. D.A review of existing chemical fumigation rules only
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Correct answer: B. A one-year multi-location trial across agro-climatic zones

Phase-II follows the two-year Phase-I pilot and is designed to test the methods in varied conditions so that region-specific Standard Operating Procedures can be established.

Q636.Science & TechnologyMedium

Which two chemicals has India’s foodgrain storage relied on for post-harvest pest control?

  1. A.Aluminium phosphide and malathion
  2. B.Nitrogen and carbon dioxide
  3. C.Endosulfan and DDT
  4. D.Phosphine and chlorpyrifos
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Correct answer: A. Aluminium phosphide and malathion

For decades these two have been the mainstay of post-harvest pest control in the country’s grain reserves, and their widespread, repeated use is what pushed pest resistance to 72 to 100 per cent in key states while raising fumigation cycles and costs.

Q637.Science & TechnologyMedium

Which institute will implement Phase-I of the ICAR-FCI research project on alternative fumigation?

  1. A.ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi
  2. B.ICAR-CIPHET, Ludhiana
  3. C.ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal
  4. D.Central Warehousing Corporation, New Delhi
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Correct answer: B. ICAR-CIPHET, Ludhiana

The correct answer is ICAR-CIPHET, Ludhiana, the Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology, which will carry out the two-year Phase-I of the project on alternatives to chemical fumigation in wheat and rice.

Q638.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Regional Rural Banks are required to lend what proportion of their total outstanding advances to the priority sector?

  1. A.Forty per cent
  2. B.Sixty per cent
  3. C.Seventy five per cent
  4. D.Ninety per cent
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Correct answer: C. Seventy five per cent

A Regional Rural Bank must lend seventy five per cent of its total outstanding advances to the priority sector, a far higher share than other banks carry, because these banks exist to serve small and marginal farmers, agricultural labourers, artisans and small entrepreneurs.

Q639.Banking & Financial AwarenessHard

Which Article was inserted in the Directive Principles by the Ninety seventh Constitutional Amendment Act to promote cooperative societies?

  1. A.Article 41
  2. B.Article 43A
  3. C.Article 43B
  4. D.Article 48A
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Correct answer: C. Article 43B

The Ninety seventh Constitutional Amendment Act of 2011 inserted Article 43B in the Directive Principles, asking the State to promote the voluntary formation, autonomous functioning, democratic control and professional management of cooperative societies.

Q640.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Which legislation brought all urban cooperative banks and multi state cooperative banks fully under the supervision of the Reserve Bank of India?

  1. A.Banking Regulation Amendment Act, 2020
  2. B.Companies Act, 2013
  3. C.Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007
  4. D.Multi State Cooperative Societies Act, 2002
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Correct answer: A. Banking Regulation Amendment Act, 2020

It ended the loose half of the old dual control by placing all urban cooperative banks and multi state cooperative banks squarely under the supervision of the Reserve Bank, giving the Bank powers over their boards, their capital raising and their amalgamation, after a series of failures had hurt depositors.