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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

Q1301.Reports & IndicesMedium

The first district-level estimates of the unincorporated non-agricultural sector are based on which survey?

  1. A.Periodic Labour Force Survey
  2. B.Annual Survey of Industries
  3. C.Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises 2025
  4. D.National Family Health Survey
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Correct answer: C. Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises 2025

The release states that the report, titled Unincorporated Sector at the District Level, draws upon ASUSE data to present the scale, structure and economic performance of the sector district by district, and that this is the first initiative of the National Statistics Office to disseminate district-level estimates from a large-scale…

Q1302.Banking & FinanceMedium

Which of the following statements about the Aadhaar Face Authentication Sandbox is correct?

  1. A.It is a controlled environment to test the full face authentication journey before going live
  2. B.It is a new Aadhaar enrolment centre model for rural districts
  3. C.It is a regulatory relaxation window granted by the Reserve Bank of India
  4. D.It is a hardware device that captures fingerprints and iris data
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Correct answer: A. It is a controlled environment to test the full face authentication journey before going live

Developers and quality assurance teams can run user provisioning and consent, face capture, liveness checks, authentication, error handling and response validation in it, and they can do so without external biometric hardware.

Q1303.Banking & FinanceMedium

In which year was UIDAI's AI and ML driven Aadhaar face authentication solution launched, and how many transactions has it processed?

  1. A.2019, over 300 crore transactions
  2. B.2020, over 400 crore transactions
  3. C.2021, over 500 crore transactions
  4. D.2023, over 600 crore transactions
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Correct answer: C. 2021, over 500 crore transactions

UIDAI engineered the face authentication solution in India and launched it in that year, and it has since been adopted by nearly 200 entities, among them central ministries and departments, state governments, banks, non-banking financial companies, telecom operators, brokerage firms and certifying authorities.

Q1304.Banking & FinanceEasy

At which event did UIDAI launch the Aadhaar Face Authentication SDK and Sandbox on 9 September 2026?

  1. A.India Mobile Congress
  2. B.Global Fintech Fest 2026
  3. C.Digital India Week
  4. D.World Economic Forum
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Correct answer: B. Global Fintech Fest 2026

The venue matters because the audience was exactly the one the tools are meant for, the banking, financial services and insurance industry, which had long asked for a way to complete Aadhaar authentication inside its own apps.

Q1306.Banking & FinanceMedium

Under which platform of the Department of Telecommunications does the Financial Fraud Risk Indicator work?

  1. A.Sanchar Saathi
  2. B.Digital Intelligence Platform
  3. C.National Cybercrime Reporting Portal
  4. D.Unified Payments Interface
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Correct answer: B. Digital Intelligence Platform

The FRI is developed under this platform, which classifies mobile numbers as medium, high or very high risk and securely shares the result with banks, payment service providers, insurers, securities intermediaries and pension entities.

Q1307.Banking & FinanceEasy

The Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) has been developed by which department?

  1. A.Department of Financial Services
  2. B.Department of Telecommunications
  3. C.Department of Revenue
  4. D.Department of Consumer Affairs
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Correct answer: B. Department of Telecommunications

The FRI is a telecom intelligence framework built by that department and offered to financial institutions through its Digital Intelligence Platform, and on 8 September 2026 it was reported to have prevented suspected cyber fraud of more than five thousand crore rupees since its launch on 22 May 2025.

Q1308.Summits & ConferencesMedium

Which of the following is a principal organiser of the Global Fintech Fest?

  1. A.National Payments Corporation of India
  2. B.Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
  3. C.Food Corporation of India
  4. D.Indian Banks Association
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Correct answer: A. National Payments Corporation of India

The fest is organised principally by the Payments Council of India, the National Payments Corporation of India and the Fintech Convergence Council, and it receives support from several ministries and regulators, among them the Reserve Bank of India, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, NITI Aayog, the International Financial…

Q1309.Summits & ConferencesMedium

Which three technologies form the pillars of the theme of the Global Fintech Fest 2026?

  1. A.Blockchain, drones and 5G
  2. B.Agentic AI, tokenisation and quantum
  3. C.Cloud, metaverse and robotics
  4. D.Big data, biometrics and semiconductors
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Correct answer: B. Agentic AI, tokenisation and quantum

The theme of this edition is Potential to Impact, and these three technologies are described as the foundations that are moving global finance towards autonomous, programmable and secure systems for inclusive finance.

Q1311.Banking & FinanceEasy

Which agency implements the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme 5.0?

  1. A.Reserve Bank of India
  2. B.Small Industries Development Bank of India
  3. C.National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company
  4. D.National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
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Correct answer: C. National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company

The backgrounder names it as the implementing agency and adds that borrowers must satisfy the eligibility conditions prescribed by NCGTC, including account status and other lending norms.

Q1313.Banking & FinanceMedium

What is the additional credit flow that ECLGS 5.0 aims to facilitate?

  1. A.₹1.50 lakh crore
  2. B.₹2.55 lakh crore
  3. C.₹3.68 lakh crore
  4. D.₹5 lakh crore
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Correct answer: B. ₹2.55 lakh crore

The backgrounder states that the scheme, approved on 5 May 2026 and implemented by the National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company, aims to facilitate an additional credit flow of up to that amount, and that the scheme runs till 31 March 2027 or till guarantees of the same value are issued…

Q1317.Banking & FinanceMedium

Who is the Chairperson of IFSCA, as named in the release?

  1. A.K. Rajaraman
  2. B.Shaktikanta Das
  3. C.Tuhin Kanta Pandey
  4. D.Mia Oka
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Correct answer: A. K. Rajaraman

He is quoted in the release saying that the rapid scale-up of banking activity at GIFT-IFSC shows the depth and growing international orientation of India's International Financial Services Centre, and that the centre is serving as an effective bridge between global pools of capital and India's financing needs.

Q1319.Banking & FinanceEasy

Under which law was the International Financial Services Centres Authority established?

  1. A.The SEBI Act, 1992
  2. B.The IFSCA Act, 2019
  3. C.The Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  4. D.The FEMA, 1999
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Correct answer: B. The IFSCA Act, 2019

The release describes IFSCA as the unified regulatory authority set up by the Government of India under an Act of Parliament for the development and regulation of financial products, financial services and financial institutions in India's International Financial Services Centres.

Q1320.Banking & FinanceMedium

How much had IFSC Banking Units at GIFT City sanctioned under the RBI's FCNR(B) swap facility as on 31 August 2026?

  1. A.USD 28.60 billion
  2. B.USD 37.26 billion
  3. C.USD 54.02 billion
  4. D.USD 62.40 billion
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Correct answer: C. USD 54.02 billion

That is the figure twenty IFSC Banking Units had sanctioned under the Reserve Bank's special swap facility for FCNR(B) deposits as on 31 August 2026, and about USD 52.82 billion of it had already been disbursed.