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.
Which district of Uttar Pradesh is the main centre of hand knotted carpet weaving?
The town and the villages around it, together with neighbouring Mirzapur, form the largest hand knotted carpet belt of India and export most of what they weave.
Read the full explanation →The only oil refinery of Uttar Pradesh is located at:
The Mathura refinery of the Indian Oil Corporation is the only refinery in the state and was set up to serve the demand of the north western plains, with crude reaching it by pipeline.
Read the full explanation →Which district of Uttar Pradesh is famous for the traditional perfume called ittar?
The town has distilled flower oils in copper stills for centuries and is called the perfume capital of India, its ittar being carried in leather bottles and matured through the seasons.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the One District One Product scheme launched by the Uttar Pradesh government?
The scheme was announced on Uttar Pradesh Day, 24 January 2018, and chose one traditional product for each district so that help with design, credit, common facility centres, packaging and marketing could be concentrated instead of scattered.
Read the full explanation →Which city of Uttar Pradesh is known as the Manchester of North India?
The city grew in the nineteenth century as the cotton and woollen mill town of the Ganga plain, with army supply orders behind it, and the tanneries of Jajmau grew beside the mills.
Read the full explanation →Which is the only coal producing district of Uttar Pradesh?
The Singrauli coalfield spreads across the border of Madhya Pradesh into Sonbhadra, and no other district of Uttar Pradesh has workable coal.
Read the full explanation →Firozabad, a city in Uttar Pradesh, is famous for which of the following industries?
Firozabad has made glass bangles, chandeliers and glassware for generations and is called the bangle city of India.
Read the full explanation →Lucknow city of Uttar Pradesh is famous for which of the following handloom production centers?
Chikankari is the fine white shadow work embroidery of Lucknow, done with untwisted thread on muslin, cotton and georgette, and it carries a geographical indication tag in the name of the city.
Read the full explanation →In the method of irrigation, water is applied to a field by means of small, narrow field channel and is suitable for crops grown in rows. Since the water is not applied to the entire area, the consumption of water is less, is described by which method of irrigation?
In this method small narrow channels are run between the ridges on which a row crop stands, and only those channels are filled.
Read the full explanation →The best method of applying water to sandy undulating area is :
Sandy soil drinks water too fast for any surface method, and an uneven surface cannot be flooded evenly without heavy levelling.
Read the full explanation →The khadin system of water harvesting and farming is traditionally associated with which region of Rajasthan?
A khadin is an earthen bund built along the lower edge of a rocky slope in the desert.
Read the full explanation →The Bisalpur dam, the largest drinking water project of Rajasthan, is built on which river?
The Bisalpur dam stands on the Banas in Tonk district and was built mainly to supply drinking water, which it pipes to Jaipur, Ajmer and Tonk, besides irrigating land in Tonk itself.
Read the full explanation →Which is the uppermost dam of the Chambal Valley Project?
The four structures of the project stand in a fixed order from upstream to downstream, and the order itself is the question: Gandhi Sagar in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh, then Rana Pratap Sagar at Rawatbhata in Chittorgarh, then Jawahar Sagar near Borawas in Kota, and last the Kota barrage…
Read the full explanation →The Chambal Valley Project is a joint venture of Rajasthan and which other state?
The Chambal rises at Janapav hill in the Vindhyan highlands of Madhya Pradesh and then flows along and through Rajasthan, so the two states built the valley scheme together and share its cost and its benefits equally.
Read the full explanation →Which is the oldest canal of Rajasthan, built in the reign of Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner?
It was opened in 1927, draws Sutlej water from the Hussainiwala headworks near Ferozepur and carries it into Sri Ganganagar, which became the first and for long the only canal irrigated district of Rajasthan.
Read the full explanation →By what name was the Indira Gandhi Canal known before 1984?
The project was planned by the engineer Kanwar Sain in 1948 under that name, the foundation stone was laid on 31 March 1958, and the canal was renamed the Indira Gandhi Canal in 1984.
Read the full explanation →The Indira Gandhi Canal takes off from which barrage?
It stands in Punjab just below the point where the Beas joins the Sutlej, so it can command the combined flow of the two rivers.
Read the full explanation →About 70% of the irrigation in Rajasthan is from:-
Although the Indira Gandhi Canal and the Chambal canals are the famous works of the state, they water only a part of it.
Read the full explanation →The Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh is known for which source of power?
The solar park built in Rewa district was among the largest single site solar parks in the country when it was commissioned, and part of its electricity is bought by the Delhi Metro, the first sale of solar power from such a park to a buyer outside the state.
Read the full explanation →The Indira Sagar project of Madhya Pradesh is built on which river?
Indira Sagar was built at Punasa in Khandwa district and is the largest reservoir of the state and the main storage of the Narmada valley plan, holding water for irrigation and power through the dry months.
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