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.
Degana, the tungsten mining centre of Rajasthan, is in which district?
Tungsten, in the form of the ore wolframite, is mined at the Rewat hill near Degana in Nagaur district, which has long been the main tungsten occurrence of the country.
Read the full explanation →Jhamarkotra, the largest rock phosphate deposit of India, is located in which district?
Jhamarkotra, a short distance from Udaipur city, is the largest rock phosphate deposit in the country and the main domestic source of raw material for phosphatic fertiliser, which India otherwise imports in large quantity.
Read the full explanation →The Khetri copper belt of Rajasthan lies in which district?
The Khetri Copper Complex in Jhunjhunu district, with the Madan Kudan and Kolihan mines, is the centre of copper mining in Rajasthan and is run by a central public sector company.
Read the full explanation →The Zawar mines, famous for the oldest known zinc smelting in the world, are in which district?
The Zawar mines lie south of Udaipur city and have been worked since ancient times; archaeologists have found clay retorts there that were used to distil zinc, which makes Zawar the earliest known zinc smelting site anywhere in the world.
Read the full explanation →The Rampura Agucha mine, the largest lead and zinc mine of India, is in which district of Rajasthan?
Rampura Agucha lies in Bhilwara district and is the largest lead and zinc mine of the country, worked for many years as a very large open pit and now mined underground; silver comes out of the same ore as a by product.
Read the full explanation →Van Panchayats, the village forest councils set up under rules framed in 1931, are a feature of which hills?
After years of protest against the reservation of hill forests, the colonial government allowed Kumaon villages to manage part of the civil forest themselves through elected Van Panchayats under rules framed in 1931.
Read the full explanation →The Arabari experiment, which became the model for Joint Forest Management in India, was carried out in which state?
At Arabari in the Midnapore district, a forest officer stopped treating villagers as encroachers and offered them a share of the sal harvest in return for protecting the degraded forest.
Read the full explanation →The first Biodiversity Heritage Site declared in India was:
Nallur, near Devanahalli on the outskirts of Bengaluru, is an old stand of tamarind trees, some of them several centuries old, and Karnataka declared it the first Biodiversity Heritage Site of the country under section 37 of the Biological Diversity Act.
Read the full explanation →Biodiversity Management Committees and Biodiversity Heritage Sites are provided for by which law?
It builds a three tier system: the National Biodiversity Authority at the centre, State Biodiversity Boards, and a Biodiversity Management Committee in every local body, which keeps a People Biodiversity Register of the plants, animals and traditional uses of its area.
Read the full explanation →Which amendment introduced conservation reserves and community reserves as categories of protected area in India?
Until then the Act of 1972 knew only national parks and sanctuaries, both of which need state ownership and control.
Read the full explanation →The founder of the Bishnoi sect, whose twenty nine rules forbid the felling of green trees, was:
Jambheshwar, known affectionately as Jambhoji, founded the Bishnoi sect in 1485 in the Bikaner desert. He laid down twenty nine rules of conduct, and the name Bishnoi comes from bis, twenty, and noi, nine.
Read the full explanation →At Khejarli in 1730, the Bishnois led by Amrita Devi gave their lives to protect which tree?
Khejri, the Prosopis cineraria of the Thar, is the tree the Bishnois hold sacred, and it is the state tree of Rajasthan.
Read the full explanation →The famous Mawphlang sacred forest, kept by the Lyngdoh clan, is in which state?
Mawphlang lies in the Khasi hills south of Shillong and is the best known sacred grove of India.
Read the full explanation →The sacred groves called Orans are a feature of which state?
An Oran is a patch of desert vegetation in western Rajasthan dedicated to a folk deity, made up of khejri, kair, jaal and rohida trees and the grass between them.
Read the full explanation →Sacred groves are known as Kavu in which state of India?
In Kerala a sacred grove is called a Kavu, and a grove kept for the serpent deities, which almost every old family compound of the state once had, is called a Sarpa Kavu.
Read the full explanation →The traditional daily kolam is drawn with rice flour mainly because:
Coarsely ground rice flour is pinched between finger and thumb and released in a thin stream, which makes it the easiest material to draw with, but the tradition gives a second reason: ants, insects, sparrows and squirrels eat the flour through the day, so the morning drawing is treated as…
Read the full explanation →Chowk purana, the courtyard and threshold pattern, is traditional in which region?
Chowk purana, also written chowkpurna, means the filling in of the chowk, the square of the courtyard.
Read the full explanation →Muggu or muggulu, with the gobbemma placed at its centre during Sankranti, is drawn in:
Muggu is the Telugu cousin of the Tamil kolam, drawn in rice flour or white powder before the door, often around a grid of dots.
Read the full explanation →The floor patterns called jhoti or chita are drawn in which state?
Jhoti and chita are drawn with a thin white paste of ground rice, applied with a piece of cloth or with the fingertips, on the floor and the walls around the door.
Read the full explanation →Aripan is the traditional floor art of which state?
Aripan, also written aripana, is drawn with a paste of ground rice on the floor of the courtyard, the place of worship and the marriage pavilion.
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