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RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

Static General Knowledge makes up the rest of the General Awareness section in RRB NTPC, and the notices name its topics: General Science and Life Science up to Class 10, History of India and the freedom struggle, Physical, Social and Economic Geography of India and the world, Indian Polity and Governance, Indian Economy, Art and Culture, Indian Literature, Monuments and Places, Flora and Fauna, Famous Personalities, the UN and other world organisations, environmental issues, Transport Systems in India, Important Government and Public Sector Organisations, Common Abbreviations, and Basics of Computers and Computer Applications. RRB frames these as short factual questions: the unit of a physical quantity, the year of a battle, the article of the Constitution, the river a city stands on, the full form of an abbreviation, the headquarters of an organisation. GK24's GK notes on this page cover each topic in English and Hindi, arranged the way the syllabus lists them, with the facts RRB tends to ask placed first. Work through one topic at a time, note the lists (national parks, dances, articles, schedules, awards), and pair each topic with its quiz on GK24 to check what has stayed with you.

RRB NTPC GK Questions with Answers

Q2682.Government SchemesMedium

VB-G RAM G, in force since 1 July 2026, has replaced which earlier rural employment programme?

  1. A.Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
  2. B.Mahatma Gandhi NREGA
  3. C.Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - NRLM
  4. D.Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana
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Correct answer: B. Mahatma Gandhi NREGA

The Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) took its place when the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 came into force on 1 July 2026, and the changeover was described as seamless and free of disruption, with the supporting digital systems live from the start.

Q2684.Government SchemesMedium

The Farmer ID is created under which mission of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare?

  1. A.National Mission on Natural Farming
  2. B.Digital Agriculture Mission
  3. C.National Food Security Mission
  4. D.Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture
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Correct answer: B. Digital Agriculture Mission

The Farmer ID is issued under this mission, which the Union Cabinet approved on 2 September 2024 and which is building a Digital Public Infrastructure, or DPI, for the farm sector.

Q2687.EnvironmentMedium

Under the Jumpstart Approach, an egg from the Sam conservation-breeding centre was carried to which place in Gujarat and put in the nest of a wild female bustard?

  1. A.Naliya
  2. B.Bhuj
  3. C.Dwarka
  4. D.Jamnagar
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Correct answer: A. Naliya

Only three female Great Indian Bustards were left in the wild in Kutch and no male survived there to fertilise an egg, so a viable egg from the conservation-breeding centre at Sam in Rajasthan was moved 770 km to Naliya in a portable incubator, a journey lasting more than 19…

Q2689.EnvironmentMedium

Whose annual progress report for 2016-17 recorded a 75 per cent decline in the Great Indian Bustard population over the previous 30 years?

  1. A.Zoological Survey of India
  2. B.Wildlife Institute of India
  3. C.Bombay Natural History Society
  4. D.National Biodiversity Authority
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Correct answer: B. Wildlife Institute of India

Its annual progress report for 2016-17 recorded that the population of the Great Indian Bustard had fallen by three quarters over the thirty years before that report, a decline driven by the loss of its grassland habitat and by pressures created by people, and made harder to reverse by the…

Q2691.General ScienceAsked in: CDS · CDS-I 2025, GKEasy

Which one of the following is a metalloid ?

  1. A.Germanium
  2. B.Coke
  3. C.Iodine
  4. D.Sugar
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Correct answer: A. Germanium

Germanium is a metalloid, an element whose properties lie between those of metals and non-metals. It is a hard, shiny, grey-white solid like a metal, yet it is brittle and conducts electricity far less well than a metal, which makes it a semiconductor.

Q2692.General ScienceAsked in: CDS · CDS-I 2018, GKEasy

Which of the following substances cause temporary hardness in water?

1. Mg(HCO3)2

2. Ca(HCO3)2

3. CaCl2

4. MgSO4

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

  1. A.3 and 4
  2. B.2 and 3
  3. C.1 and 4
  4. D.1 and 2
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Correct answer: D. 1 and 2

Temporary hardness is caused by the bicarbonates of magnesium and calcium, Mg(HCO3)2 and Ca(HCO3)2. It is called temporary because simple boiling removes it: on heating, the soluble bicarbonates break down into insoluble carbonate or hydroxide, carbon dioxide and water, and the solid settles out.

Q2696.Madhya PradeshHard

Under Article 243E, a panchayat dissolved before the end of its five-year term is reconstituted for:

  1. A.A fresh term of five years
  2. B.Only the remainder of the term that the dissolved panchayat would have continued
  3. C.A fixed term of six months
  4. D.A fixed term of one year
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Correct answer: B. Only the remainder of the term that the dissolved panchayat would have continued

Article 243E gives every panchayat a term of five years from the date of its first meeting, allows it to be dissolved earlier under a law in force, and requires the election to be completed within six months of the dissolution; but a panchayat constituted at such an election continues…

Q2697.Madhya PradeshEasy

What is the minimum age fixed by Article 243F for a person to contest an election to a panchayat?

  1. A.18 years
  2. B.21 years
  3. C.25 years
  4. D.30 years
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Correct answer: B. 21 years

Article 243F says that a person who is not qualified to be a member of the legislature of the state is disqualified from a panchayat, but adds that no one shall be disqualified for being under twenty-five years of age if he has attained the age of twenty-one, so twenty-one…

Q2698.Madhya PradeshMedium

The Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, known as PESA, which applies to the Scheduled Areas of Madhya Pradesh, was passed in which year?

  1. A.1992
  2. B.1993
  3. C.1996
  4. D.2006
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Correct answer: C. 1996

Part IX of the Constitution does not apply on its own to the Fifth Schedule areas, so Parliament passed the Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act in 1996 to extend it with changes that protect tribal custom.

Q2699.Madhya PradeshMedium

Municipal corporations in Madhya Pradesh are constituted under which Act?

  1. A.The Madhya Pradesh Nagar Palik Nigam Adhiniyam, 1956
  2. B.The Madhya Pradesh Nagar Palika Adhiniyam, 1961
  3. C.The Madhya Pradesh Municipal Act, 1993
  4. D.The Madhya Pradesh Municipal Act, 2007
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Correct answer: A. The Madhya Pradesh Nagar Palik Nigam Adhiniyam, 1956

A Nagar Palik Nigam, that is a municipal corporation, is constituted for a larger urban area under this Act of 1956, the same year in which the state of Madhya Pradesh was formed; its elected head is the Mayor and its executive head the Municipal Commissioner.

Q2700.Madhya PradeshEasy

Panchayati raj in Madhya Pradesh is governed today by which Act?

  1. A.The Madhya Pradesh Nagar Palik Nigam Adhiniyam, 1956
  2. B.The Madhya Pradesh Nagar Palika Adhiniyam, 1961
  3. C.The Madhya Pradesh Panchayat Raj Evam Gram Swaraj Adhiniyam, 1993
  4. D.The Madhya Pradesh Panchayat Raj Adhiniyam, 2006
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Correct answer: C. The Madhya Pradesh Panchayat Raj Evam Gram Swaraj Adhiniyam, 1993

The state passed this law in 1993 to carry out the 73rd Amendment, held elections under it in 1994 and added the words Gram Swaraj to its name after the reform that made the Gram Sabha the centre of village government.