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.
What was the capital of the old Madhya Pradesh, the Part A state, before the reorganisation of 1956?
The Part A state called Madhya Pradesh between 1950 and 1956 was the former Central Provinces and Berar, and its capital was Nagpur.
Read the full explanation →The States Reorganisation Commission appointed in 1953 was chaired by
The States Reorganisation Commission of 1953 was chaired by Justice Fazl Ali, with K. M. Panikkar and H. N. Kunzru as its two members.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Chief Minister of the reorganised Madhya Pradesh in 1956?
Ravishankar Shukla had been Chief Minister of the old Madhya Pradesh, that is the Central Provinces and Berar, from 1947, and he continued as the first Chief Minister of the reorganised state from 1 November 1956 until his death at the end of that year.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was NOT merged into Madhya Pradesh in 1956?
The reorganisation brought three units, Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh and Bhopal, together with the Hindi-speaking Mahakoshal districts of the old Madhya Pradesh.
Read the full explanation →The present state of Madhya Pradesh was formed on which date?
The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 merged Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh, Bhopal and the Hindi-speaking districts of the old Madhya Pradesh into one state with effect from 1 November 1956, and the Marathi-speaking Vidarbha region went to Bombay State.
Read the full explanation →Who became the first Chief Minister of Bihar after independence?
Shri Krishna Sinha, also called Shri Babu, led the Congress ministry of 1937 and became the first Chief Minister of Bihar after independence, remembered for the zamindari abolition legislation and for opening the Baidyanath temple to all.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was a direct outcome of the Champaran satyagraha?
The enquiry committee of 1917 accepted the cultivators' case, and the Champaran Agrarian Act of 1918 ended the obligation to grow indigo on three kathas in twenty and ordered a partial refund of the illegal exactions.
Read the full explanation →Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, who organised the peasants of Bihar, was the first president of which organisation?
Sahajanand Saraswati built the peasant movement in Bihar through the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha from 1929 and became the first president of the All India Kisan Sabha, formed in 1936, with N. G. Ranga as its general secretary.
Read the full explanation →Jayaprakash Narayan escaped in 1942 from which jail to organise underground resistance?
Jayaprakash Narayan, with a few companions, escaped over the wall of Hazaribagh Central Jail on the Diwali night of 9 November 1942 and went on to organise the underground phase of the Quit India movement from Nepal and the eastern districts.
Read the full explanation →During the Quit India movement, seven students were shot dead on 11 August 1942 while hoisting the national flag on which building?
On 11 August 1942, in the first days of the Quit India movement, a procession of students reached the Secretariat at Patna to hoist the national flag on its dome; police firing killed seven of them.
Read the full explanation →Gandhi arrived in Bihar for the Champaran satyagraha first at which city?
Gandhi reached Patna on 10 April 1917, stayed briefly in the city, then went to Muzaffarpur, where J. B. Kripalani was teaching and had gathered students to receive him, and only afterwards moved on to Motihari in Champaran, where the order to leave the district was served on him.
Read the full explanation →The Champaran Agrarian Act, which abolished the tinkathia system, was passed in which year?
The government appointed the Champaran Agrarian Enquiry Committee in 1917 with Gandhi as one of its members, and acting on its report Parliament of the province passed the Champaran Agrarian Act in 1918.
Read the full explanation →The enhanced rent that Champaran planters charged for releasing tenants from indigo cultivation was called
When synthetic dye destroyed the market for natural indigo, the planters freed tenants from the obligation to grow it but raised their rent permanently; this enhancement was known as sharahbeshi.
Read the full explanation →In the tinkathia system of Champaran, the cultivator was required to grow indigo on
The word tinkathia comes from the obligation to plant indigo on three kathas out of every twenty kathas of land, twenty kathas making one bigha in the local measure.
Read the full explanation →Who persuaded Mahatma Gandhi to visit Champaran?
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 to the district.
Read the full explanation →The Champaran Satyagraha took place in which of the following states of India?
Champaran is a district of north Bihar, with Motihari as its headquarters, and the satyagraha of 1917 was fought there against the indigo planters' tinkathia system.
Read the full explanation →In which of the following year was the first general election held in India?
India's first general election was spread over the winter of 1951 and 1952 and is dated 1952, the year the first Lok Sabha and the first set of state legislative assemblies were constituted.
Read the full explanation →Under the scheme recommended by the High Level Committee on Simultaneous Elections, if the Lok Sabha or a state assembly is dissolved before completing its term, the fresh election that follows would be held for which period?
The committee recommended that where a House has to be dissolved early, because of a hung House or a no-confidence motion for example, the mid-term election should be for the remainder of the five-year period of the House that was dissolved, which the report calls the unexpired term.
Read the full explanation →The 79th Report on the feasibility of holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies, submitted in December 2015, was the report of which body?
Its 79th Report of December 2015 examined the feasibility of holding simultaneous elections, found the idea workable and suggested that the polls be held in two phases within a five-year cycle so that the number of election years could be cut down.
Read the full explanation →The superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of electoral rolls and the conduct of elections to Parliament and the state legislatures is vested in the Election Commission by which Article?
Article 324 vests in the Election Commission the superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of the electoral rolls for, and the conduct of, all elections to Parliament and to the legislature of every state, and of elections to the offices of President and Vice-President.
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