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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

Q4581.Indian PolityHard

Which of the following statements about the orders of a Delimitation Commission is correct?

  1. A.They require the approval of the President before taking effect
  2. B.They have the force of law and cannot be called in question before any court
  3. C.They can be modified by the Lok Sabha by a simple majority
  4. D.They are advisory and binding only on the Election Commission
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Correct answer: B. They have the force of law and cannot be called in question before any court

The Delimitation Commission Act gives its published orders this finality so that a general election is not held up by litigation over constituency boundaries, and the Supreme Court has upheld the bar.

Q4583.Indian PolityMedium

The Constitution (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, 2023 inserted which of the following Articles?

  1. A.Articles 330A, 332A and 334A
  2. B.Articles 243D and 243T
  3. C.Articles 331 and 333
  4. D.Articles 324 and 325
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Correct answer: A. Articles 330A, 332A and 334A

Article 330A reserves one-third of the seats in the Lok Sabha for women, Article 332A does the same for the legislative assembly of every state, and Article 334A fixes when the reservation begins and how long it lasts, tying it to the first census after the commencement of the Act…

Q4584.Indian PolityMedium

Who heads a Delimitation Commission in India?

  1. A.The Chief Election Commissioner
  2. B.A serving or retired judge of the Supreme Court
  3. C.The Speaker of the Lok Sabha
  4. D.The Union Home Minister
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Correct answer: B. A serving or retired judge of the Supreme Court

The correct answer is B, a serving or retired judge of the Supreme Court, who is appointed chairperson of the Commission.

Q4585.Indian PolityHard

Which amendment extended the freeze on the allocation of Lok Sabha seats among the states until the first census taken after the year 2026?

  1. A.42nd Amendment, 1976
  2. B.84th Amendment, 2001
  3. C.87th Amendment, 2003
  4. D.91st Amendment, 2003
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Correct answer: B. 84th Amendment, 2001

The 42nd Amendment had frozen the allocation on the 1971 census only until the census after 2000; as that date approached, the 84th Amendment pushed the freeze forward to the first census taken after 2026, so that states which had controlled population growth would not lose seats.

Q4586.Indian PolityMedium

The Constitution (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, 2023 reserves one-third of the seats for women in which of the following?

  1. A.The Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha only
  2. B.The Lok Sabha, the state legislative assemblies and the Delhi legislative assembly
  3. C.All state legislative councils and the Rajya Sabha
  4. D.Only the panchayats and municipalities
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Correct answer: B. The Lok Sabha, the state legislative assemblies and the Delhi legislative assembly

The amendment inserted Article 330A for the Lok Sabha and Article 332A for the state assemblies, and amended Article 239AA so that the reservation also covers the Delhi assembly.

Q4587.Indian PolityEasy

Which Article of the Constitution provides for the readjustment of the allocation of Lok Sabha seats and the division of states into territorial constituencies after every census?

  1. A.Article 80
  2. B.Article 81
  3. C.Article 82
  4. D.Article 84
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Correct answer: C. Article 82

Article 82 says that upon the completion of each census the allocation of seats in the Lok Sabha to the states and the division of each state into territorial constituencies shall be readjusted by such authority and in such manner as Parliament may by law determine.

Q4588.Indian HistoryMedium

The recommendations of the Mandal Commission were implemented in 1990 by the government of which Prime Minister?

  1. A.Rajiv Gandhi
  2. B.V. P. Singh
  3. C.Chandra Shekhar
  4. D.P. V. Narasimha Rao
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Correct answer: B. V. P. Singh

The Mandal Commission, formally the Second Backward Classes Commission, had been appointed in 1979 under B. P. Mandal and submitted its report in 1980, recommending twenty-seven per cent reservation of central government posts for the Other Backward Classes.

Q4589.Indian HistoryHard

The Anti-Defection Law was added to the Constitution as the Tenth Schedule by which amendment?

  1. A.44th Amendment, 1978
  2. B.52nd Amendment, 1985
  3. C.61st Amendment, 1989
  4. D.73rd Amendment, 1992
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Correct answer: B. 52nd Amendment, 1985

It inserted the Tenth Schedule and amended Articles 101, 102, 190 and 191 so that a member of Parliament or of a state legislature who voluntarily gives up the membership of the party on whose ticket the member was elected, or votes against the party whip, may be disqualified, the…

Q4592.Indian HistoryMedium

Which Constitutional Amendment of the Emergency period is known as the Mini Constitution?

  1. A.38th Amendment
  2. B.42nd Amendment
  3. C.44th Amendment
  4. D.52nd Amendment
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Correct answer: B. 42nd Amendment

It added the words socialist, secular and integrity to the Preamble, inserted the Fundamental Duties as Part IVA and Article 51A, added subjects such as education, forests and weights and measures to the Concurrent List, extended the normal life of the Lok Sabha and the assemblies to six years, and…

Q4595.Indian HistoryMedium

The Shimla Agreement of 2 July 1972 was signed between Indira Gandhi and which leader of Pakistan?

  1. A.Ayub Khan
  2. B.Yahya Khan
  3. C.Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
  4. D.Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
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Correct answer: C. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

After the war of December 1971 and the creation of Bangladesh, the two countries met at Shimla and agreed on 2 July 1972 to settle their differences bilaterally and by peaceful means, to respect the line of control in Jammu and Kashmir resulting from the ceasefire, and to work towards…

Q4596.Indian HistoryEasy

How many major commercial banks were nationalised in India in 1969?

  1. A.Six
  2. B.Fourteen
  3. C.Twenty
  4. D.Twenty-one
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Correct answer: B. Fourteen

In July 1969 the government of Indira Gandhi nationalised the fourteen largest commercial banks, each with deposits above fifty crore rupees, in order to take banking to the villages and to direct credit towards agriculture, small industry and the weaker sections, which were together termed the priority sectors.

Q4597.Indian HistoryMedium

The Tashkent Agreement of January 1966, which ended the Indo-Pak war of 1965, was mediated by the Premier of which country?

  1. A.The United States of America
  2. B.The Soviet Union
  3. C.The United Kingdom
  4. D.Egypt
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Correct answer: B. The Soviet Union

The agreement was signed at Tashkent, then in Soviet Uzbekistan, on 10 January 1966 by Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and President Ayub Khan of Pakistan, with the Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin acting as host and mediator.

Q4599.GeographyMedium

When two valley glaciers join, the merging of their lateral moraines produces which feature?

  1. A.Terminal moraine
  2. B.Medial moraine
  3. C.Ground moraine
  4. D.Esker
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Correct answer: B. Medial moraine

Debris falling from the valley sides collects along each edge of a glacier as a lateral moraine; where a tributary glacier joins the trunk glacier, the inner lateral moraine of each merges into a single dark stripe of rock waste that runs down the middle of the combined ice, and…

Q4600.GeographyMedium

A fjord is formed when:

  1. A.A river valley is drowned by a rise in sea level
  2. B.A glacial trough on the coast is drowned by the sea
  3. C.A coral reef encloses a shallow lagoon
  4. D.A volcanic crater fills with sea water
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Correct answer: B. A glacial trough on the coast is drowned by the sea

A glacier moving to the coast deepens its valley below the level of the sea; when the ice melts, salt water enters the deep U-shaped trough and leaves a long, narrow, steep-sided inlet, the fjord, of which the coasts of Norway, Chile, Greenland and New Zealand give the best examples.