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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

Q3883.Indian PolityEasy

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 has replaced which of the following laws?

  1. A.The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
  2. B.The Indian Penal Code, 1860
  3. C.The Indian Evidence Act, 1872
  4. D.The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013
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Correct answer: B. The Indian Penal Code, 1860

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 is the substantive criminal law of India and it took the place of the Indian Penal Code drafted on the recommendation of the First Law Commission under Lord Macaulay.

Q3884.Indian PolityAsked in: Uttar Pradesh · UPSSSC Junior Assistant 2016Medium

In which section of the Indian Penal Code is 'mental unsoundness' contained?

  1. A.Section 88
  2. B.Section 83
  3. C.Section 84
  4. D.Section 86
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Correct answer: C. Section 84

Section 84 of the Indian Penal Code was the general exception for the act of a person of unsound mind: nothing is an offence which is done by a person who, at the time of doing it, by reason of unsoundness of mind is incapable of knowing the nature of…

Q3885.Indian HistoryHard

The tinkathia system of Champaran was abolished by which legislation?

  1. A.Bengal Tenancy Act, 1885
  2. B.Champaran Agrarian Act, 1918
  3. C.Bihar Tenancy Act, 1920
  4. D.Government of India Act, 1919
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Correct answer: B. Champaran Agrarian Act, 1918

The government appointed an enquiry committee on the Champaran question with Gandhi as one of its members, and the recommendations of that committee were given effect by the Champaran Agrarian Act of 1918, which abolished the tinkathia obligation and ordered the planters to refund a part of the illegal exactions…

Q3886.Indian HistoryMedium

Which leader gave up his legal practice to join Mahatma Gandhi during the Kheda Satyagraha of 1918?

  1. A.Vallabhbhai Patel
  2. B.Motilal Nehru
  3. C.C. Rajagopalachari
  4. D.Rajendra Prasad
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Correct answer: A. Vallabhbhai Patel

Vallabhbhai Patel, then a successful barrister of Ahmedabad, gave up his practice to work with Gandhi in the villages of Kheda in 1918, and the campaign began the partnership that later produced the Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928, after which he received the title Sardar.

Q3888.Indian HistoryMedium

The tinkathia system, against which the Champaran Satyagraha was launched, was related to:

  1. A.Compulsory cultivation of indigo on a part of the holding
  2. B.Payment of land revenue in cash
  3. C.A tax on salt manufacture
  4. D.Forced labour on the roads
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Correct answer: A. Compulsory cultivation of indigo on a part of the holding

Under the tinkathia system a tenant of Champaran had to grow indigo on three kathas out of every twenty kathas of his land for the European planter, and the crop had to be sold at a price the planter fixed.

Q3889.Indian HistoryEasy

Who persuaded Mahatma Gandhi to visit Champaran and take up the cause of the indigo cultivators?

  1. A.Rajendra Prasad
  2. B.Brajkishore Prasad
  3. C.Raj Kumar Shukla
  4. D.Anugrah Narayan Sinha
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Correct answer: C. Raj Kumar Shukla

Raj Kumar Shukla was a cultivator of Champaran who met Gandhi at the Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916 and followed him from place to place until Gandhi agreed to come and see the condition of the indigo tenants for himself.

Q3891.Indian HistoryMedium

Which book inspired Gandhi to found the Phoenix Settlement and was translated by him into Gujarati as Sarvodaya?

  1. A.The Kingdom of God is Within You
  2. B.Unto This Last
  3. C.Civil Disobedience
  4. D.Walden
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Correct answer: B. Unto This Last

Gandhi read John Ruskin's Unto This Last on a train journey in South Africa in 1904, and the idea that the good of the individual lies in the good of all led him at once to found the Phoenix Settlement near Durban; he later rendered the book into Gujarati under…

Q3892.Indian HistoryHard

Tolstoy Farm, set up by Gandhi in 1910, was established on land donated by which of his friends?

  1. A.Hermann Kallenbach
  2. B.Henry Polak
  3. C.C. F. Andrews
  4. D.Sonja Schlesin
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Correct answer: A. Hermann Kallenbach

Tolstoy Farm was founded in 1910 near Johannesburg on land given by Hermann Kallenbach, a German-born architect and close friend of Gandhi, and it housed the families of satyagrahis who had gone to jail, training them in manual labour and self-discipline.

Q3898.GeographyMedium

Per Drop More Crop and Har Khet Ko Pani are components of which scheme?

  1. A.Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana
  2. B.Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
  3. C.National Food Security Mission
  4. D.Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana
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Correct answer: A. Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana

The scheme was launched in 2015 to bring the scattered irrigation programmes under one roof, and its components include Har Khet Ko Pani, which aims to extend assured irrigation to every field, Per Drop More Crop, which promotes drip and sprinkler systems, the Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme for incomplete major…

Q3899.GeographyEasy

Which method of irrigation uses water most efficiently?

  1. A.Flood irrigation
  2. B.Furrow irrigation
  3. C.Sprinkler irrigation
  4. D.Drip irrigation
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Correct answer: D. Drip irrigation

In drip irrigation water is carried through pipes and released slowly, drop by drop, at the root zone of each plant through emitters, so losses to evaporation, runoff and deep percolation are the lowest of all methods and fertiliser can be delivered with the water.

Q3900.GeographyMedium

Tank irrigation is most widely practised in which part of India?

  1. A.The northern plains
  2. B.The peninsular plateau
  3. C.The Himalayan region
  4. D.The coastal plains of Gujarat
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Correct answer: B. The peninsular plateau

Tank irrigation is characteristic of the peninsula, especially Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, for three reasons: the hard crystalline rock of the plateau makes the digging of wells difficult and holds little groundwater, the rivers of the peninsula are seasonal and cannot feed perennial canals, and the uneven…