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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

Q6201.Indian HistoryHard

Panchayati Raj was inaugurated in India by Jawaharlal Nehru on 2 October 1959 at which place?

  1. A.Nagaur in Rajasthan
  2. B.Shadnagar in Andhra Pradesh
  3. C.Wardha in Maharashtra
  4. D.Bhiwani in Haryana
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Correct answer: A. Nagaur in Rajasthan

The Balwantrai Mehta Committee of 1957 recommended democratic decentralisation through a three-tier structure of the gram panchayat, the panchayat samiti and the zila parishad, and Nehru inaugurated the scheme at Nagaur on 2 October 1959, which makes Rajasthan the first state to adopt Panchayati Raj.

Q6202.Indian HistoryMedium

The Second Five Year Plan of India was based on the model given by which economist?

  1. A.P. C. Mahalanobis
  2. B.V. K. R. V. Rao
  3. C.D. R. Gadgil
  4. D.Amartya Sen
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Correct answer: A. P. C. Mahalanobis

The Second Five Year Plan, which ran from 1956 to 1961, was built on the two-sector model of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis and gave the first place to heavy and basic industry; the public sector steel plants at Bhilai, Rourkela and Durgapur belong to this plan, and the Industrial Policy Resolution…

Q6204.Indian HistoryMedium

The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 reorganised India into how many states and union territories?

  1. A.Sixteen states and nine union territories
  2. B.Fourteen states and six union territories
  3. C.Seventeen states and ten union territories
  4. D.Twelve states and five union territories
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Correct answer: B. Fourteen states and six union territories

The Act came into force on 1 November 1956 and, along with the Seventh Amendment of the same year, ended the old classification of Part A, Part B, Part C and Part D states that the Constitution had set out in 1950, leaving fourteen states and six union territories.

Q6205.Indian HistoryHard

Who was the chairman of the States Reorganisation Commission appointed in 1953?

  1. A.K. M. Panikkar
  2. B.H. N. Kunzru
  3. C.Fazl Ali
  4. D.S. K. Dhar
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Correct answer: C. Fazl Ali

The States Reorganisation Commission was appointed in December 1953 under Justice Fazl Ali, with the historian and diplomat K. M. Panikkar and the educationist H. N. Kunzru as its two members, and its report of 1955 accepted language as a basis for reorganisation while rejecting the formula of one language…

Q6206.Indian HistoryMedium

The death of which leader after a prolonged fast led to the creation of Andhra State in 1953?

  1. A.Potti Sriramulu
  2. B.Tanguturi Prakasam
  3. C.N. G. Ranga
  4. D.Pattabhi Sitaramayya
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Correct answer: A. Potti Sriramulu

He fasted for a separate Telugu-speaking state and died on 15 December 1952 on the fifty-eighth day of the fast; the protests that followed forced the government to announce Andhra State, which was created on 1 October 1953 as the first state formed on a linguistic basis, with Kurnool as…

Q6207.Indian HistoryEasy

Who headed the States Department that carried out the integration of the princely states after 1947?

  1. A.Jawaharlal Nehru
  2. B.Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
  3. C.C. Rajagopalachari
  4. D.Rajendra Prasad
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Correct answer: B. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

The States Department was created in July 1947 with Patel as the minister in charge and V. P. Menon as its secretary, and the pair persuaded the rulers to sign the Instrument of Accession, which is why Patel is remembered as the Iron Man of India and his birthday is…

Q6208.Indian HistoryMedium

Which operation was carried out to merge the princely state of Hyderabad with the Indian Union in September 1948?

  1. A.Operation Vijay
  2. B.Operation Polo
  3. C.Operation Meghdoot
  4. D.Operation Cactus
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Correct answer: B. Operation Polo

The Nizam of Hyderabad signed a Standstill Agreement in November 1947 and then delayed accession while the Razakar militia terrorised the countryside; the Indian government sent in troops from 13 to 18 September 1948 in an action called Operation Polo, after which Hyderabad acceded to India.

Q6209.Indian EconomyHard

Decimal coinage, under which the rupee was divided into one hundred paise, was introduced in India in which year?

  1. A.1947
  2. B.1950
  3. C.1957
  4. D.1964
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Correct answer: C. 1957

Decimal coinage came into force on 1 April 1957 under the Indian Coinage Amendment Act, and the rupee, which had earlier been divided into sixteen annas, each of four pice or twelve pies, was divided into one hundred paise; the new coin was called the naya paisa until 1964, when…

Q6210.Indian EconomyEasy

Whose signature appears on Indian banknotes of denominations above one rupee?

  1. A.The Finance Secretary
  2. B.The Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
  3. C.The Union Finance Minister
  4. D.The President of India
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Correct answer: B. The Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

Every banknote above one rupee is issued by the Reserve Bank under Section 22 of its Act and carries the promise to pay the bearer, signed by the Governor, which is why these notes are called promissory notes of the Bank.

Q6211.Indian EconomyMedium

The Reserve Bank withdrew the two thousand rupee note from circulation in May 2023. Which statement about that note is correct?

  1. A.It ceased to be legal tender at once
  2. B.It continues to be legal tender
  3. C.It was never legal tender
  4. D.It was replaced by a five thousand rupee note
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Correct answer: B. It continues to be legal tender

On 19 May 2023 the Reserve Bank announced the withdrawal of the two thousand rupee note from circulation under its Clean Note Policy and asked banks to stop issuing it, while making it clear that the note was not being demonetised and would remain legal tender; holders were given a…

Q6212.Indian EconomyEasy

On which date were the five hundred and one thousand rupee notes declared to cease being legal tender in India?

  1. A.8 November 2016
  2. B.19 May 2023
  3. C.1 April 2017
  4. D.16 January 1978
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Correct answer: A. 8 November 2016

The notes of five hundred and one thousand rupees in the Mahatma Gandhi series ceased to be legal tender from the midnight of 8 November 2016, the stated purposes being action against unaccounted money, counterfeit currency and the financing of terrorism; a new five hundred rupee note and a two…

Q6213.Indian EconomyMedium

The demonetisation of high denomination notes in January 1978 took place when who was the Prime Minister of India?

  1. A.Indira Gandhi
  2. B.Morarji Desai
  3. C.Charan Singh
  4. D.Lal Bahadur Shastri
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Correct answer: B. Morarji Desai

The High Denomination Bank Notes (Demonetisation) Act was passed in January 1978, when the Janata Party government led by Morarji Desai was in office, and it withdrew the notes of one thousand, five thousand and ten thousand rupees that had been reintroduced in 1954.

Q6214.Indian EconomyEasy

The Indian rupee symbol, adopted in 2010, was designed by whom?

  1. A.D. Udaya Kumar
  2. B.Nandan Nilekani
  3. C.Pingali Venkayya
  4. D.Raghuram Rajan
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Correct answer: A. D. Udaya Kumar

The rupee symbol was adopted by the Union Cabinet on 15 July 2010 after a public competition, and the winning design by D. Udaya Kumar, then a research scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, joins the Devanagari letter ra with the Roman capital R and carries two parallel…

Q6215.Indian EconomyHard

The banknote presses at Mysuru and Salboni are run by Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited, a subsidiary of which institution?

  1. A.Reserve Bank of India
  2. B.State Bank of India
  3. C.Ministry of Finance
  4. D.Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India
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Correct answer: A. Reserve Bank of India

Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited was set up in 1995 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank and runs the two banknote presses at Mysuru in Karnataka and Salboni in West Bengal.

Q6217.Indian EconomyHard

Since which year has the note issue of the Reserve Bank of India been governed by the Minimum Reserve System?

  1. A.1935
  2. B.1949
  3. C.1956
  4. D.1969
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Correct answer: C. 1956

An amendment of the Reserve Bank of India Act in 1956 replaced the proportional reserve system with the Minimum Reserve System, under which the Bank must hold assets worth two hundred crore rupees against the note issue, of which gold must be not less than one hundred fifteen crore rupees…

Q6219.Indian EconomyEasy

Which currency note in India is issued by the Government of India and not by the Reserve Bank of India?

  1. A.One rupee note
  2. B.Two rupee note
  3. C.Five rupee note
  4. D.Ten rupee note
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Correct answer: A. One rupee note

The one rupee note is issued by the Government of India under the Coinage Act and carries the signature of the Finance Secretary, while every other denomination is a banknote issued by the Reserve Bank under Section 22 of its Act and carries the signature of the Governor.