Railway GK Questions 2026

Forest management under PRAMAAN is assessed against the Indian Forest Management Standard, and that standard is part of this Code, so certification is anchored in audited forest management rather than in a voluntary self-declaration by the producer.

The correct answer is the Andhra Pradesh Forest Development Corporation, which was certified for its plantations spread over 33,000 hectares after a field and management audit.

The Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change handed over the first certificates under this scheme in New Delhi, and the certificate itself carries the name PRAMAAN.

The National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy, shortened to NIPUN Bharat, was begun in July 2021 under the aegis of Samagra Shiksha and works on the foundational stage covering children of 3 to 8 years, with the goal of universal foundational literacy and numeracy by 2026-27…

ULLAS, also known as the Nav Bharat Saaksharta Karyakram or the New India Literacy Programme, aims to cover 5 crore learners over 2022-27, and that outlay is the sum sanctioned for the period.

The States and Union Territories that declared full literacy in that period are Ladakh, Mizoram, Goa, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir, which comes to ten in all.

The Periodic Labour Force Survey of 2025 puts the country's overall literacy rate at that level, and this is the headline figure quoted for India's literacy today.

In human beings the sperm meets and fuses with the egg inside the fallopian tube, also called the oviduct. The ovary releases one egg in a month, and the funnel shaped mouth of the fallopian tube collects it.

Hydra, starfish and planaria can all grow a lost or cut off part of the body back into a whole animal, and that ability is called regeneration.

Rajasthan supplies most of India's gypsum and almost all of its silver ore.

Shifting agriculture is called jhoom or jhum cultivation in India, especially in the north eastern hills. In this method a patch of forest is cleared and burnt, and the ash left behind manures the soil.

An ocean thermal energy conversion plant works only where the warm surface water is at least about 20 degrees Celsius hotter than the cold water drawn from the depths.

The Kolar Gold Fields lie in the Kolar district of Karnataka, on the Dharwar rocks of the peninsular plateau. Kolar was for a long time India's main source of gold and one of the deepest mines in the world, going down about three kilometres.

Hydra is the one animal in the list that reproduces both by budding and by regeneration. In budding, a bulge grows out from the body wall of the parent Hydra, develops a mouth and tentacles, and then breaks off as a small independent Hydra.

Collenchyma cells lay down extra cellulose and pectin at the corners of their walls, which makes the tissue strong and yet flexible.

Papaya is raised from seed, so it is not multiplied by vegetative propagation the way the other three plants are.

India allows 100 per cent foreign direct investment through the automatic route in the construction, operation and maintenance of rail infrastructure projects.

Sindhi was added to the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution by the 21st Constitutional Amendment Act of 1967. The Eighth Schedule is the list of languages the Constitution recognises, and a candidate may take the civil services examination in any of them.

A line of trees or tall shrubs works as a windbreak: it slows the wind close to the ground so the moving air can no longer lift loose soil.

Green plants give out oxygen only during photosynthesis, the process in which they use light energy to make their own food.