Railway GK Questions 2026

The card works like the Kisan Credit Card but for livestock: the owner of an animal gets working capital on the strength of the animal, repayable in instalments at a low rate of interest, which suits a state whose Murrah buffalo is a brand of its own and whose milk…

The scheme allows a member of an Antyodaya family, that is a family with a yearly income below Rs 1.80 lakh, to travel a thousand kilometres free in a year in the buses of Haryana Roadways, the card being issued against the family’s Parivar Pehchan Patra and the journeys recorded…

The scheme, begun in 2016, registers unemployed young people who have passed the intermediate, graduated or taken a postgraduate degree, pays them a monthly allowance that rises with the qualification, and adds an honorarium for up to a hundred hours of work a month in a government or private office…

Under the Bhavantar Bharpai Yojana of 2018 the state fixes a protected rate for these vegetables and pays the grower the difference when the market price falls below it, because a vegetable cannot be stored like grain and its price crashes in a good year.

Chirayu Haryana, announced in 2022, gives the same cashless cover of Rs 5 lakh a family a year as Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, but to families of the state whose yearly income is below Rs 1.80 lakh, which brings in many households that the central list leaves…

The scheme, begun in 2020, pays an incentive for every acre on which a farmer gives up paddy for a crop that needs less water, and adds free seed and help with sowing, because the water table under the paddy belt of Kurukshetra, Kaithal and the neighbouring districts has fallen…

The Parivar Pehchan Patra gives each family of the state a family identity number with verified details of its members and its income, and pensions, scholarships, ration and scheme benefits are then delivered by reading that record.

Under the Mukhyamantri Parivar Samridhi Yojana, begun in 2019, a family whose yearly income is up to Rs 1.80 lakh and whose land is up to five acres receives Rs 6,000 a year, part of it paid directly and part put into pension and insurance cover for the members.

The national Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign was launched by the Prime Minister from Panipat on 22 January 2015, and Haryana was chosen for the launch because its child sex ratio was among the lowest in the country.

Although Katihar lies in Bihar, its division is one of the divisions of the Northeast Frontier Railway, the zone with its headquarters at Maligaon in Guwahati, because the lines there carry the traffic running towards north Bengal and the north east.

The East to West corridor, numbered 27 after the renumbering of the national highways, runs from Porbandar in Gujarat to Silchar in Assam, and its Bihar stretch passes through Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga and Purnia, opening up the Mithila and Seemanchal districts.

The bridge from Digha on the Patna side to Sonpur on the north bank is named after Jayaprakash Narayan, the leader of the movement of 1974 and a son of Saran district, and it carries both a railway line and a road, rail traffic having begun over it in 2016.

Gaya International Airport serves Bodh Gaya, the place of the Buddha’s enlightenment and the first place of pilgrimage for Buddhists everywhere, and it receives direct flights from Thailand, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and other Buddhist countries in the pilgrimage season, which is why it carries international status although it is a…

The great Bihar earthquake of 1934 destroyed the rail link across the Kosi between Nirmali and Saraigarh, and the river’s shifting course kept it broken for decades; the Kosi Rail Mahasetu, opened in 2020, restored the connection and cut the journey between Mithila and Kosi by hundreds of kilometres.

The Ganga waterway from Haldia to Prayagraj, declared in 1986 as the first national waterway of the country, is 1,620 kilometres long, and under the Jal Marg Vikas Project its channel was deepened and terminals were built, including the multimodal terminal at Patna.

National Waterway 1 follows the Ganga, the Bhagirathi and the Hooghly from Haldia in West Bengal up to Prayagraj, and a long stretch of it passes through Bihar by Buxar, Patna, Munger and Bhagalpur.

Vikramshila Setu, about four and a half kilometres long and opened in 2001, joins Bhagalpur on the south bank with Naugachhia on the north, and it takes its name from the ancient university of Vikramshila, whose ruins stand in the same district at Antichak.

The Mahatma Gandhi Setu, about 5.75 kilometres long and opened in 1982, runs from Patna to Hajipur in Vaishali district, the town that also holds the headquarters of the East Central Railway, and it is the main road link between the capital and north Bihar.

The bridge between Mokama and Simaria, opened in 1959 and inaugurated by Dr Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, carried both a railway line and a road and was the first bridge of that kind over the Ganga anywhere in the country.

The East Central Railway, created in 2002 when the railways were reorganised into new zones, has its headquarters at Hajipur in Vaishali district, and it is the only zonal headquarters of the Indian Railways in Bihar.