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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

Q8061.Indian EconomyMedium

Under the National Food Security Act, 2013, who is treated as the head of the household for the purpose of the ration card?

  1. A.The eldest male member of the household
  2. B.The eldest woman of the household aged eighteen or above
  3. C.The member with the highest income
  4. D.Any adult member nominated by the gram panchayat
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Correct answer: B. The eldest woman of the household aged eighteen or above

The Act provides that the ration card shall be issued in the name of the eldest woman of the household who is eighteen years of age or more, so that the entitlement is held by a woman; if there is no such woman, the eldest male member holds it until…

Q8062.Indian EconomyMedium

What proportion of the population does the National Food Security Act, 2013 aim to cover?

  1. A.50 per cent of the rural and 25 per cent of the urban population
  2. B.Up to 75 per cent of the rural and up to 50 per cent of the urban population
  3. C.All households below the poverty line only
  4. D.The entire population without any exclusion
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Correct answer: B. Up to 75 per cent of the rural and up to 50 per cent of the urban population

Those two ceilings together work out to about two-thirds of the country, and the Union Government fixes the state-wise coverage within them while the states identify the households.

Q8063.Indian EconomyMedium

Under the National Food Security Act, 2013, a priority household is entitled to how much foodgrain?

  1. A.5 kg per person per month
  2. B.35 kg per household per month
  3. C.10 kg per person per month
  4. D.25 kg per household per month
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Correct answer: A. 5 kg per person per month

The Act creates two categories of beneficiary. A priority household receives five kilograms of foodgrain for every member every month, so a family of five draws twenty-five kilograms.

Q8064.Indian EconomyEasy

The National Food Security Act was enacted in which year?

  1. A.2005
  2. B.2009
  3. C.2013
  4. D.2016
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Correct answer: C. 2013

The National Food Security Act, often called the Right to Food Act, was passed by Parliament in 2013 and converted the subsidised grain of the Targeted Public Distribution System from a scheme benefit into a legal entitlement, enforceable through a District Grievance Redressal Officer and a State Food Commission.

Q8065.GeographyEasy

Jamshedpur, Bhilai and Modinagar are examples of which functional class of towns?

  1. A.Transport towns
  2. B.Industrial towns
  3. C.Garrison towns
  4. D.Religious towns
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Correct answer: B. Industrial towns

Each of the three grew around a factory: Jamshedpur around the steel works set up by the Tata enterprise, Bhilai around the public sector steel plant built with Soviet collaboration, and Modinagar around the industries of the Modi group, so industry is their dominant function.

Q8066.GeographyHard

Dispersed or isolated rural settlements are most characteristic of which of the following regions of India?

  1. A.The Punjab plain
  2. B.The Meghalaya hills
  3. C.The lower Ganga plain
  4. D.The Gujarat plain
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Correct answer: B. The Meghalaya hills

A dispersed or isolated pattern, in which a farmstead or two or three houses stand far from the next, is found where the terrain is broken and the patches of cultivable land are small and scattered, as in Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and the hills of Kerala.

Q8067.GeographyMedium

An urban agglomeration, as defined by the Census of India, means

  1. A.any town with a population above one million
  2. B.a continuous urban spread made up of a town and its adjoining outgrowths
  3. C.a group of villages administered by one panchayat
  4. D.a town selected under the Smart Cities Mission
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Correct answer: B. a continuous urban spread made up of a town and its adjoining outgrowths

An urban agglomeration is the built-up whole rather than the municipal unit: it is a town together with its outgrowths, or two or more physically contiguous towns with their outgrowths, where an outgrowth is a clearly identifiable area such as a railway colony, a university campus, a port area or…

Q8069.GeographyAsked in: CTET · 31st Dec 2021Easy

While teaching about migration in her class which of the following factors could be considered as relevant by the teacher? (A) Availability of work opportunities (B) Improving standards of living (C) Marriage Choose the correct option.

  1. A.Only (A) and (B)
  2. B.Only (B) and (C)
  3. C.Only (A) and (C)
  4. D.All (A), (B) and (C)
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Correct answer: D. All (A), (B) and (C)

Migration is studied through push factors in the place of origin and pull factors in the place of destination, and all three items listed belong to that study.

Q8070.GeographyEasy

Which Constitutional Amendment Act gave constitutional status to urban local bodies in India?

  1. A.The 72nd Amendment Act
  2. B.The 73rd Amendment Act
  3. C.The 74th Amendment Act
  4. D.The 76th Amendment Act
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Correct answer: C. The 74th Amendment Act

The Seventy-fourth Constitutional Amendment Act of 1992 inserted Part IXA into the Constitution with Articles 243P to 243ZG, gave municipalities a fixed term of five years with elections conducted by a State Election Commission, provided for reservation of seats, and added the Twelfth Schedule listing eighteen subjects for urban local…

Q8072.GeographyAsked in: CTET · 22nd Dec 2021Medium

Read the two statements in the context of urbanisation: A) Due to urbanisation, only the rich began leaving their villages to look for jobs that were opening up in cities in the colonial period B) The poor and many from the low castes, saw this opportunity to get away from oppressive hold that upper-caste land owners exercised over their lives and the daily humiliation they suffered.

  1. A.Only statement 'A' is true.
  2. B.Only statement 'B' is true.
  3. C.Both statement 'A' and 'B' are false.
  4. D.Both statement 'A' and 'B' are true.
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Correct answer: B. Only statement 'B' is true.

Statement B is sound: for the poor and for people of the lower castes, the new jobs in colonial cities were a way out of the control of upper-caste landowners in the village and of the daily humiliation they suffered there, and this pull is part of every account of…

Q8074.GeographyEasy

A town with a population of 100,000 and above is placed by the Census of India in which class?

  1. A.Class I
  2. B.Class II
  3. C.Class III
  4. D.Class IV
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Correct answer: A. Class I

The Census of India groups towns into six classes by population: Class I of one hundred thousand and above, Class II of fifty thousand to ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, Class III of twenty thousand to forty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, Class IV of ten thousand to nineteen…

Q8075.GeographyAsked in: Madhya Pradesh · MPPSC Forest Service Previous Year MainsMedium

Pattern of settlement in Ganga Yamuna Doab region is –

  1. A.Scattered
  2. B.Random
  3. C.Compact Random
  4. D.Semi sprinkled
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Correct answer: C. Compact Random

The Ganga-Yamuna Doab is a level alluvial plain with deep fertile soil, assured water from wells, canals and a high water table, and a long history of dense farming settlement, so its villages are compact or nucleated: the houses stand packed together in one block with narrow lanes, and the…

Q8076.GeographyMedium

According to the Census of India, which of the following is NOT one of the conditions a place must satisfy to be classified as a census town?

  1. A.A minimum population of 5,000
  2. B.At least 75 per cent of the male main working population engaged in non-agricultural pursuits
  3. C.A density of population of at least 400 persons per square kilometre
  4. D.The presence of a municipality or a notified town area committee
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Correct answer: D. The presence of a municipality or a notified town area committee

A place that has a municipal corporation, a municipality, a cantonment board or a notified town area committee is a statutory town, and it is urban whatever its population; it is therefore not a census town at all.

Q8078.General ScienceMedium

Bakelite is a condensation polymer of formaldehyde with

  1. A.Phenol
  2. B.Melamine
  3. C.Urea
  4. D.Aniline
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Correct answer: A. Phenol

Bakelite is a phenol-formaldehyde resin, prepared by condensing phenol with formaldehyde; on curing the chains cross-link into a rigid network, giving a hard, heat-resistant and electrically insulating solid used for switches, plug tops, pan handles and distributor caps.