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.
How many levels of courts are there in India?
India has a single integrated judiciary arranged in three levels: the Supreme Court at the apex, the High Courts at the level of the States, and the subordinate or district courts below them.
Read the full explanation →Nadir Shah carried away the Peacock Throne and the Kohinoor diamond after defeating the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah in which battle?
The invasion exposed how weak the empire had become after Aurangzeb.
Read the full explanation →The Battle of Wandiwash of 1760 was fought between the English and which European power?
The Battle of Wandiwash, or Vandavasi in Tamil Nadu, was the decisive engagement of the Third Carnatic War, in which Sir Eyre Coote defeated Count de Lally in 1760.
Read the full explanation →The Third Battle of Panipat in 1761 was fought between Ahmad Shah Abdali and
On 14 January 1761 Ahmad Shah Abdali of Afghanistan, helped by Najib-ud-Daula and Shuja-ud-Daula, defeated the Maratha army commanded by Sadashivrao Bhau; the Peshwa's son Vishwasrao was killed, and the defeat destroyed Maratha hopes of replacing the Mughals at Delhi.
Read the full explanation →The Treaty of Allahabad of 1765, which gave the East India Company the diwani rights of Bengal, Bihar and Odisha, followed which battle?
By the Treaty of Allahabad the next year the Company received the diwani, the right to collect revenue, in Bengal, Bihar and Odisha, and Clive built the system of dual government on it.
Read the full explanation →Which battle is called the foundation of British political power in India?
Bengal, the richest province of India, passed under the Company's political control.
Read the full explanation →The Battle of Talikota in 1565 resulted in the defeat of which kingdom?
In 1565 the allied Deccan sultanates of Bijapur, Ahmadnagar, Golconda and Bidar defeated the Vijayanagara army led by Rama Raya at Talikota, a battle also called Rakshasa-Tangadi or Bannihatti; the capital city of Vijayanagara, today's Hampi, was plundered and the empire never recovered.
Read the full explanation →At the Second Battle of Panipat in 1556, the Mughal army was led by
Akbar was only about thirteen years old in 1556, and his regent Bairam Khan commanded the army that defeated Hemu, the able general of the Sur side who had captured Delhi and crowned himself Hemchandra Vikramaditya.
Read the full explanation →In which battle did Sher Shah Suri defeat Humayun in 1539?
The following year Sher Shah defeated him again at Kannauj, also called Bilgram, and Humayun left India for about fifteen years while the Sur dynasty ruled Delhi.
Read the full explanation →The First Battle of Panipat in 1526 was fought between
Babur defeated and killed Ibrahim Lodi, the last Sultan of the Lodi dynasty, on the field of Panipat in 1526, using the tulughma flanking division and field guns served by Ustad Ali Quli and Mustafa Rumi, and founded the Mughal Empire.
Read the full explanation →Who won the Second Battle of Tarain fought in 1192?
Ghori had been defeated by Prithviraj Chauhan at the First Battle of Tarain in 1191 and returned the next year with a better organised army of mounted archers; the Second Battle of Tarain in 1192 ended in the defeat and death of Prithviraj and opened north India to Turkish rule.
Read the full explanation →The Battle of Hydaspes in 326 BCE was fought between Alexander and which Indian ruler?
Porus ruled the Paurava kingdom between the Jhelum and the Chenab and fought Alexander on the Hydaspes, the Greek name for the Jhelum.
Read the full explanation →Which was the first integrated programme of rural development in independent India?
Its weaknesses led to the Balwant Rai Mehta Committee of 1957, whose recommendation of democratic decentralisation gave India panchayati raj.
Read the full explanation →Which rural development mission organises rural women into self help groups for livelihood support?
It organises poor rural women into self help groups, federates them at the village and block level, and supports them with a revolving fund, a community investment fund and interest subvention on bank loans.
Read the full explanation →The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, meant for all weather rural roads, was launched in which year?
The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana was launched on 25 December 2000 to connect unconnected habitations with all weather roads, generally those with a population above five hundred in the plains and above two hundred and fifty in hill, tribal and desert areas, and it later added the upgradation of…
Read the full explanation →What wage to material ratio has to be maintained in works taken up under MGNREGA?
At least sixty per cent of the cost of the works must go on wages and not more than forty per cent on material, so that the scheme remains an employment programme rather than a construction programme.
Read the full explanation →Under which section of MGNREGA does the Gram Sabha conduct the social audit of works?
The correct answer is C, Section 17, which makes the Gram Sabha responsible for monitoring the execution of works within the panchayat and for conducting a regular social audit of all the projects taken up under the scheme, with every record open to public inspection.
Read the full explanation →What is the minimum share of women among MGNREGA beneficiaries required by the Act?
Priority has to be given to women in such a way that at least one third of the beneficiaries are women who have registered and asked for work, and the Act also requires equal wages for women and men for the same work.
Read the full explanation →Under MGNREGA, work has to be provided within what distance of the applicant's village?
The Act requires that work be provided ordinarily within five kilometres of the village of the applicant, and if the worksite is farther away, the worker is paid an extra ten per cent of the wage rate to meet the cost of travel and living.
Read the full explanation →Under MGNREGA, an unemployment allowance becomes payable if work is not provided within
If employment is not provided within fifteen days of the application, or of the date from which work is sought, whichever is later, the applicant becomes entitled to an unemployment allowance, which the State Government pays from its own funds.
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