NABARD GK Questions 2026

The study will examine that many rural roads, spread across ten States and Union Territories, fifty districts and one hundred and fifty blocks, with a household survey of roughly five thousand families to capture changes in mobility, accessibility and socio-economic conditions.

The National Rural Infrastructure Development Agency, which works under the Ministry of Rural Development, signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Institute of Management Kolkata for a four-year longitudinal study of roads built under PMGSY-IV and PM-JANMAN.

NABARD started a pilot project on Joint Liability Groups in 2004-05 so that small, marginal and tenant farmers, who often till land they do not own, could borrow without the land papers a bank usually demands.

E-Shakti was launched by NABARD in 2015 to put the accounts and records of self-help groups on a digital platform.

Microfinance means small loans to poor households that banks treat as too risky, so a large loan is the opposite of the idea.

He described the certificate as a tool that helps Indian producers, exporters and forest-based enterprises meet the due-diligence and deforestation-free timber sourcing rules now applied by major overseas markets, and also called it a livelihood mission for tribal and rural communities, smallholder farmers, women's self-help groups and gatherers of non-timber…

Forest management under PRAMAAN is assessed against the Indian Forest Management Standard, and that standard is part of this Code, so certification is anchored in audited forest management rather than in a voluntary self-declaration by the producer.

The correct answer is the Andhra Pradesh Forest Development Corporation, which was certified for its plantations spread over 33,000 hectares after a field and management audit.

The Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change handed over the first certificates under this scheme in New Delhi, and the certificate itself carries the name PRAMAAN.

The Section 138 timeline runs in three steps. The payee must give the drawer a written notice demanding payment within thirty days of receiving information from the bank that the cheque has been returned unpaid.

Section 22 of the Act provides that the maturity of a promissory note or bill of exchange payable after a stated period is the day on which the period ends, and that three days of grace are added in computing that date.

Section 130 provides that a person taking a cheque crossed 'not negotiable' shall not have, and shall not be capable of giving, a better title than the person from whom they took it had.

A bill of exchange, defined in Section 5 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, is an unconditional order in writing by which the drawer directs another person, the drawee, to pay a certain sum to or to the order of the payee.

The Reserve Bank of India directed that cheques, drafts, pay orders and banker's cheques would be payable for three months from the date of the instrument, with effect from 1 April 2012, cutting the earlier period of six months.

Section 123 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 provides that where a cheque bears across its face two parallel transverse lines, with or without words such as 'and company', that addition is a general crossing.

Section 138 makes it a criminal offence to issue a cheque that is returned unpaid because the account has insufficient funds or because the amount exceeds the arrangement made with the bank.

Section 6 says a cheque is a bill of exchange drawn on a specified banker and not expressed to be payable otherwise than on demand, and it goes on to include the electronic image of a truncated cheque and a cheque in the electronic form, both added by the amendment…

Section 22 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 says that the maturity of a promissory note or bill of exchange payable otherwise than on demand is the date on which it falls due, and the three days of grace are already counted in arriving at that date.

The Negotiable Instruments Act was enacted in 1881 and came into force on 1 March 1882.

NSF stands for not sufficient funds, and a bank writes it on the return memo when the balance in the drawer's account is less than the amount of the cheque.