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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

Q5721.Indian EconomyMedium

Mission Shakti, the umbrella scheme for women, is implemented by which ministry?

  1. A.Ministry of Home Affairs
  2. B.Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
  3. C.Ministry of Women and Child Development
  4. D.Ministry of Rural Development
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Correct answer: C. Ministry of Women and Child Development

Mission Shakti is one of the three umbrella schemes of that ministry from 2021, along with Mission Vatsalya for child protection and Mission Poshan 2.0 for nutrition, and it has two parts, Sambal for safety and security and Samarthya for empowerment.

Q5723.Indian EconomyMedium

The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017 raised the period of paid maternity leave to how many weeks?

  1. A.Twelve weeks
  2. B.Eighteen weeks
  3. C.Twenty-six weeks
  4. D.Thirty-two weeks
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Correct answer: C. Twenty-six weeks

The amendment of 2017 raised paid maternity leave for women in establishments covered by the Maternity Benefit Act from twelve weeks to twenty-six weeks for the first two children, and it also provided for a creche facility in establishments above a prescribed size and for work from home where the…

Q5726.Indian EconomyAsked in: RRB Group D · 8 Sept 2022, Shift 2Hard

The Stree Manoraksha project aimed at extending mental health training to 6000 One Stop Centre functionaries across India was launched by whom in March 2022?

  1. A.Amit Shah
  2. B.Smriti Zubin Irani
  3. C.Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya
  4. D.Narendra Modi
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Correct answer: B. Smriti Zubin Irani

The project was launched in March 2022 by the Minister of Women and Child Development, who then held that office, in collaboration with the national mental health institute at Bengaluru, to train the staff of One Stop Centres in handling the mental health needs of women affected by violence.

Q5727.Indian EconomyMedium

Under the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana, what cash incentive is paid to an eligible woman for her first living child?

  1. A.Two thousand rupees
  2. B.Five thousand rupees
  3. C.Ten thousand rupees
  4. D.Twelve thousand rupees
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Correct answer: B. Five thousand rupees

The scheme, which began on 1 January 2017 and is run by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, pays this amount in instalments on conditions such as early registration of pregnancy and immunisation of the child, as partial compensation for the wages a woman loses during pregnancy and after…

Q5729.Indian EconomyMedium

A Sukanya Samriddhi account can be opened in the name of a girl child before she completes which age?

  1. A.Five years
  2. B.Eight years
  3. C.Ten years
  4. D.Fourteen years
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Correct answer: C. Ten years

Under the Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana, launched on 22 January 2015, a parent or legal guardian may open the account for a girl at any time before she completes the age of ten years, for a maximum of two girls in one family, and the account matures twenty-one years after it…

Q5731.GeographyHard

Digboi in Assam is known for which of the following?

  1. A.The oldest working oil refinery in India
  2. B.The largest coal field in India
  3. C.The first jute mill in India
  4. D.The largest copper mine in India
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Correct answer: A. The oldest working oil refinery in India

Oil was struck at Digboi in upper Assam at the end of the nineteenth century and the refinery there, set up in 1901, is the oldest still in operation in the country.