Railway GK Questions 2026

His book The Social Contract, published in 1762, argued that legitimate political authority comes from the general will of the people and not from the divine right of a king, and it became the intellectual charter of the French Revolution.

On that day a Paris crowd attacked the Bastille, a royal fortress used as a prison, which stood for the arbitrary authority of the monarchy; the date is celebrated in France as the national day.

Mission Shakti is one of the three umbrella schemes of that ministry from 2021, along with Mission Vatsalya for child protection and Mission Poshan 2.0 for nutrition, and it has two parts, Sambal for safety and security and Samarthya for empowerment.

It is the round the clock emergency number for a child in need of care and protection, and it connects the caller to the child protection machinery under Mission Vatsalya and the Juvenile Justice Act.

The amendment of 2017 raised paid maternity leave for women in establishments covered by the Maternity Benefit Act from twelve weeks to twenty-six weeks for the first two children, and it also provided for a creche facility in establishments above a prescribed size and for work from home where the…

One Stop Centres, launched in 2015 and financed from the Nirbhaya Fund, are called Sakhi centres and bring medical aid, police assistance, legal aid, psychological counselling and temporary shelter for a woman affected by violence under one roof.

POSHAN Abhiyaan was launched there on 8 March 2018, International Women Day, with the aim of reducing stunting, undernutrition, anaemia among women and children and low birth weight through convergence of departments, use of technology and community mobilisation.

The project was launched in March 2022 by the Minister of Women and Child Development, who then held that office, in collaboration with the national mental health institute at Bengaluru, to train the staff of One Stop Centres in handling the mental health needs of women affected by violence.

The scheme, which began on 1 January 2017 and is run by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, pays this amount in instalments on conditions such as early registration of pregnancy and immunisation of the child, as partial compensation for the wages a woman loses during pregnancy and after…

The scheme was launched on 2 October 1975 and is the oldest and largest programme for children in India, delivering supplementary nutrition, pre-school education, immunisation, health check-ups, referral services and health education for mothers through anganwadi centres.

Under the Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana, launched on 22 January 2015, a parent or legal guardian may open the account for a girl at any time before she completes the age of ten years, for a maximum of two girls in one family, and the account matures twenty-one years after it…

The scheme was launched on 22 January 2015 from Panipat because Haryana had one of the lowest child sex ratios in the country in the Census of 2011, and the launch was meant to carry the message from the worst affected region.

Oil was struck at Digboi in upper Assam at the end of the nineteenth century and the refinery there, set up in 1901, is the oldest still in operation in the country.

The Godavari rises at Trimbakeshwar in the Nashik district of Maharashtra, and Nashik stands on its upper course, which is also why the city hosts one of the four Kumbh Melas.

Firozabad has made glass for generations and supplies most of the glass bangles sold in India, along with chandeliers and laboratory glassware.

Rourkela, built in the Second Five Year Plan, was set up with West German collaboration, close to the iron ore of Odisha and the coal of the Chhotanagpur plateau.

The Danube rises in the Black Forest of Germany, flows east through central Europe and reaches the Black Sea, and it passes the capitals of Austria, Hungary and Serbia, which is why it is said to water more capital cities than any other river in the world.

Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh and the old seat of the Nawabs of Awadh, stands on the Gomti, a tributary of the Ganga that rises in the Pilibhit district.

Its cotton textile mills, which began in the 1860s and multiplied in the early twentieth century, earned it the comparison with the English mill town of Manchester.

The Tata Iron and Steel Company plant of 1907 was built at Sakchi, later renamed Jamshedpur, where the Subarnarekha and its tributary the Kharkai meet, close to the coal of Jharia and the iron ore of Odisha.