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RBI GK Questions 2026

The static part of RBI exams is mostly economics and finance. The Grade B advertisement lists the syllabus of Paper-I, Economic and Social Issues: growth and development, national income, poverty and employment, sustainable development, the Indian economy since the reforms of 1991, money and financial markets, the role of banks and the Reserve Bank, public finance, agriculture, industry and services, the balance of payments, the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO, and India's social structure. Paper-III, General Finance and Management, adds the functions of the RBI, the banking system, SIDBI, EXIM Bank, NABARD, NHB and NaBFID, financial markets, financial inclusion, the Union Budget and inflation. These topics also feed the General Awareness tests of Grade B Phase-I and the Assistant Main, alongside static facts such as the heads and headquarters of institutions. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for RBI exams, written as short facts and tables so that a topic can be revised in one sitting, in English and Hindi. Read a topic, then solve its quiz and previous-year questions on this site to check what you retained. For the descriptive part of ESI, turn each note into a one-page answer outline.

RBI GK Questions with Answers

Q281.Computer AwarenessMedium

A decision support system is designed mainly for which kind of problem?

  1. A.Fully structured, repetitive clerical work
  2. B.Semi-structured problems needing what-if analysis
  3. C.Printing payslips every month
  4. D.Installing hardware drivers
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Correct answer: B. Semi-structured problems needing what-if analysis

A decision support system is interactive and model-based: it holds data, models and a user interface so that a manager can change assumptions, run alternatives and compare outcomes on problems that are neither wholly routine nor wholly open-ended, such as pricing a product, choosing a warehouse site or planning a…

Q282.Computer AwarenessMedium

SAP, Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics are well-known products in which category?

  1. A.Antivirus suites
  2. B.ERP software
  3. C.Image editors
  4. D.Operating systems
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Correct answer: B. ERP software

All three are sold as enterprise resource planning suites, with modules for finance, human resources, materials, manufacturing and sales working on one shared database; Infor belongs to the same list, and Odoo and the Indian ERPNext are the open-source examples.

Q283.Computer AwarenessMedium

Which system mainly records the routine day-to-day transactions of an organisation?

  1. A.Transaction processing system
  2. B.Executive information system
  3. C.Decision support system
  4. D.Knowledge management system
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Correct answer: A. Transaction processing system

A TPS serves the operational level, capturing sales, deposits, bookings, issues of material and payroll entries as they happen, where accuracy, speed and reliability matter more than analysis; it is also the source of the data that higher systems later summarise.

Q284.Computer AwarenessEasy

Tally is best described as which kind of software?

  1. A.Operating system
  2. B.Accounting software
  3. C.Antivirus software
  4. D.Web browser
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Correct answer: B. Accounting software

Tally, from Tally Solutions of Bengaluru, keeps ledgers and groups, takes entries as vouchers, and produces the trial balance, profit and loss account, balance sheet, day book and stock summary without separate work; later versions added inventory, payroll and tax features, and the current line is TallyPrime.

Q285.Computer AwarenessEasy

Which type of software is used to manage a company's contacts, enquiries, campaigns and service history?

  1. A.CRM software
  2. B.Compiler
  3. C.Device driver
  4. D.Disk defragmenter
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Correct answer: A. CRM software

Customer relationship management software keeps the record of every dealing with a customer or prospect, including contacts, enquiries, calls, complaints, campaigns and purchase history, and is divided into operational, analytical and collaborative CRM.

Q286.Computer AwarenessEasy

In business software, ERP stands for what?

  1. A.Electronic Record Processing
  2. B.Enterprise Resource Planning
  3. C.Enterprise Report Publishing
  4. D.External Resource Protocol
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Correct answer: B. Enterprise Resource Planning

An ERP package replaces separate departmental programs with one integrated suite built on a single shared database, so a transaction entered once flows through stock, production, dispatch and the ledger.

Q287.Indian EconomyHard

The Wholesale Price Index in India is released by the Office of the Economic Adviser, which works under

  1. A.The Ministry of Finance
  2. B.The Ministry of Commerce and Industry
  3. C.The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
  4. D.The Ministry of Labour and Employment
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Correct answer: B. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry

The Office of the Economic Adviser in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, which is a department of that ministry, compiles and releases the Wholesale Price Index every month, along with the index of eight core industries; the wholesale index covers primary articles, fuel and power and…

Q288.Indian EconomyHard

The Index of Industrial Production in India is compiled and released by

  1. A.The Reserve Bank of India
  2. B.The National Statistical Office
  3. C.The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
  4. D.The Labour Bureau
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Correct answer: B. The National Statistical Office

The index measures the short term change in the volume of production of the industrial sector and is published every month, with mining, manufacturing and electricity as its three sectors and a use-based classification into primary goods, capital goods, intermediate goods, infrastructure and construction goods, consumer durables and consumer non-durables.

Q289.Indian EconomyHard

Which Act provides the legal framework for the collection of official statistics in India?

  1. A.The Census Act, 1948
  2. B.The Collection of Statistics Act, 2008
  3. C.The Right to Information Act, 2005
  4. D.The Indian Statistical Institute Act, 1959
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Correct answer: B. The Collection of Statistics Act, 2008

It empowers the Union, the State and local governments to collect statistics on economic, demographic, social, scientific and environmental matters, obliges the informant to furnish the information asked for, and bars the disclosure of the information of an individual informant for any purpose other than statistics; it was amended in…

Q290.Indian EconomyMedium

The National Statistical Commission was set up in 2005 on the recommendation of which commission?

  1. A.The Rangarajan Commission on statistics
  2. B.The Tendulkar Committee
  3. C.The Kelkar Task Force
  4. D.The Narasimham Committee
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Correct answer: A. The Rangarajan Commission on statistics

The commission headed by C. Rangarajan reviewed the Indian statistical system and recommended a permanent and autonomous body to lay down standards, so the National Statistical Commission was constituted in 2005 as an advisory body with a part-time chairperson, members and the chief executive officer as its secretary; the chief…

Q291.Indian EconomyMedium

The Periodic Labour Force Survey, which gives India's unemployment rate, is conducted by

  1. A.The Labour Bureau
  2. B.The National Statistical Office
  3. C.NITI Aayog
  4. D.The Reserve Bank of India
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Correct answer: B. The National Statistical Office

The survey was launched in 2017 in place of the earlier five-yearly employment and unemployment rounds of the National Sample Survey, and it reports the labour force participation rate, the worker population ratio and the unemployment rate on the three activity statuses, namely usual status, current weekly status and current…

Q293.Indian EconomyMedium

The Census of India is conducted by an office under which ministry?

  1. A.Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
  2. B.Ministry of Home Affairs
  3. C.Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
  4. D.Ministry of Rural Development
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Correct answer: B. Ministry of Home Affairs

The census is taken by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, which works under the Ministry of Home Affairs, under the authority of the Census Act of 1948; the same office maintains the civil registration system of births and deaths.

Q294.Indian EconomyEasy

Who founded the Indian Statistical Institute at Kolkata in 1931 and is called the father of Indian statistics?

  1. A.C. R. Rao
  2. B.P. C. Mahalanobis
  3. C.V. K. R. V. Rao
  4. D.D. R. Gadgil
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Correct answer: B. P. C. Mahalanobis

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis founded the Indian Statistical Institute at Kolkata in 1931, set up the National Sample Survey in 1950, gave statistics the distance measure named after him, pioneered large scale sample surveys and pilot surveys, and prepared the plan frame of the Second Five Year Plan, which placed heavy…

Q295.Indian EconomyEasy

National Statistics Day is observed in India on which date?

  1. A.29 February
  2. B.29 June
  3. C.20 October
  4. D.15 September
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Correct answer: B. 29 June

National Statistics Day has been observed on 29 June every year since 2007 to mark the birth anniversary of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis and to create awareness about the use of statistics in planning and policy; a theme is announced each year by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.

Q296.Indian EconomyEasy

The National Statistical Office was formed in 2019 by merging which two organisations?

  1. A.The Central Statistics Office and the National Sample Survey Office
  2. B.The Labour Bureau and the Central Statistics Office
  3. C.The Economic Adviser's Office and the National Sample Survey Office
  4. D.The Registrar General's Office and the Central Statistics Office
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Correct answer: A. The Central Statistics Office and the National Sample Survey Office

In 2019 the government merged the two bodies into a single National Statistical Office under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, so that the preparation of the national accounts and the conduct of the large sample surveys would sit in one office.

Q297.Indian EconomyAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2023, GS Paper IMedium

Consider the following :

1. Demographic performance

2. Forest and ecology

3. Governance reforms

4. Stable government

5. Tax and fiscal efforts

For the horizontal tax devolution, the Fifteenth Finance Commission used how many of the above as criteria other than population, area and income distance?

  1. A.Only two
  2. B.Only three
  3. C.Only four
  4. D.All five
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Correct answer: B. Only three

Besides population, area and income distance, the Fifteenth Finance Commission used demographic performance, forest and ecology, and tax and fiscal efforts.

Q298.Indian EconomyAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2023, GS Paper IMedium

Consider the investments in the following assets :

1. Brand recognition

2. Inventory

3. Intellectual property

4. Mailing list of clients

How many of the above are considered intangible investments?

  1. A.Only one
  2. B.Only two
  3. C.Only three
  4. D.All four
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Correct answer: C. Only three

Brand recognition, intellectual property and a client mailing list have no physical form, while inventory is a stock of physical goods.

Q299.Reports & IndicesHard

The highlights of which two surveys are presented in the 121st issue of Sarvekshana?

  1. A.Annual Survey of Industries and the Consumer Expenditure Survey
  2. B.Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises 2025 and Periodic Labour Force Survey 2025
  3. C.National Family Health Survey and the Periodic Labour Force Survey
  4. D.Household Consumption Expenditure Survey and the Economic Census
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Correct answer: B. Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises 2025 and Periodic Labour Force Survey 2025

Both were conducted by the National Sample Survey and both cover January to December 2025, and the inclusion of their highlights gives readers a view of the unincorporated enterprise sector and of trends in the labour market.

Q300.Reports & IndicesMedium

Which body released the 121st issue of Sarvekshana?

  1. A.National Statistical Commission
  2. B.National Statistical Systems Training Academy
  3. C.Central Statistics Office
  4. D.National Sample Survey Office
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Correct answer: B. National Statistical Systems Training Academy

Through the continued publication of this journal the academy encourages research in official statistics, promotes wider application of statistical data and methodological innovation, and strengthens the analytical foundation of evidence-based policymaking.