NABARD GK Questions 2026

These are two of the three ways the RBI itself says an NBFC differs from a bank. An NBFC lends and invests like a bank, but it cannot accept demand deposits such as savings or current accounts, so statement 1 is correct.

Referring to efforts to widen international institutional partnerships, Dr Jat pointed to the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with CAST, which is expected to open new avenues of cooperation in agricultural research, capacity development and knowledge exchange.

The roundtable that Dr M. L. Jat addressed was held on the sidelines of the Norman E Borlaug International Dialogue during the World Food Prize Foundation programme at Des Moines in the United States, and he joined it virtually.

He is Secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education and Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, and he addressed the roundtable virtually, speaking in his capacity as President of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India.

This is a state policy, and its purpose is to ease investment across the parts of the fisheries value chain: hatcheries, fish seed and feed, reservoir and cage fisheries, aquatic animal health, processing, cold-chain infrastructure, logistics, value addition and market development.

Madhya Pradesh has been notified in that category by the Centre, and the tag fits a state whose fisheries rest on large standing water bodies rather than on the sea.

That is the level India's fish production reached in 2024-25.

The Fisheries Investors and Exporters Conclave 2026 is being organised on 23 October 2026 at Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, by the state's Department of Fisheries together with the Department of Fisheries under the Union Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.

Statements 2 and 3 are correct; statement 1 is not. The SHG movement in banking was started by NABARD, not the State Bank of India.

The SARAS journey opened in 1999, when the first National SARAS Mela was organised in Delhi with roughly 65 beneficiaries, so the first statement holds.

The Lakhpati Didi initiative under DAY-NRLM moved up in stages, and in February 2026 the government announced a raised target of six crore Lakhpati Didis, a phase that puts weight on holding on to income gains and helping enterprises grow rather than only counting members.

SARAS Melas are organised by the government under this mission, which is its flagship programme for cutting rural poverty and building women’s economic strength.

The National SARAS Mela is being held at Punnami Ghat in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, from 13 October to 31 October 2026, and it is the first National SARAS Mela placed anywhere outside the Delhi-NCR region.

The L. C. Gupta Committee appointed by SEBI recommended the introduction of exchange traded derivatives, the law was amended to include derivatives in the definition of securities, and trading in index futures began on the Indian stock exchanges in June 2000; index options, stock options and stock futures followed in…

Contango is the normal condition of a commodity market, because anyone holding goods until a future date must pay for storage, insurance and interest on the money locked up, and those carrying costs are added to the spot price to arrive at the futures price.

The Authority was created under the Warehousing (Development and Regulation) Act, 2007 to register warehouses and to regulate negotiable warehouse receipts, which allow a farmer to deposit produce in a registered warehouse, receive a receipt, raise a loan against it from a bank and sell the goods later instead of…

Organised futures trading in India began with cotton at Bombay in 1875, and the association formed in that year is treated as the first organised futures market of the country; oilseeds, jute and bullion followed in the decades after.

NCDEX, which began operations in 2003, is the exchange on which farm contracts such as guar seed, chana, castor seed, soybean, mustard, cotton and jeera are traded, and it is the reference point for agricultural futures prices in India.

The Forward Markets Commission was set up in 1953 under that Act, with its office at Mumbai, and it regulated commodity futures trading until its merger with SEBI in 2015, after which the Act itself was repealed.

The Forward Markets Commission was merged with SEBI on 28 September 2015, the Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act of 1952 was repealed by the Finance Act of 2015, and commodity derivatives were brought within the definition of securities under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956, so SEBI now regulates them.