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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

Q10381.Indian HistoryHard

Under the Constitution as it came into force in 1950, the former princely states that survived as separate units were classed as which category, headed by a Rajpramukh?

  1. A.Part A states
  2. B.Part B states
  3. C.Part C states
  4. D.Part D territories
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Correct answer: B. Part B states

These were the former princely units and unions of states, among them Hyderabad, Mysore, Rajasthan, Saurashtra, Madhya Bharat, Travancore-Cochin, PEPSU and Jammu and Kashmir, and each was headed by a Rajpramukh rather than by a Governor.

Q10382.Indian HistoryHard

PEPSU, one of the unions of states formed out of princely territory, stood for which of the following?

  1. A.Punjab and East Provinces States Union
  2. B.Patiala and East Punjab States Union
  3. C.Princely Eastern Punjab States Union
  4. D.Patiala and Eastern Provinces States Union
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Correct answer: B. Patiala and East Punjab States Union

It was formed in 1948 by grouping Patiala with Kapurthala, Jind, Nabha, Faridkot, Malerkotla, Nalagarh and Kalsia, with the Maharaja of Patiala as Rajpramukh, and it became a Part B state under the Constitution of 1950.

Q10383.Indian HistoryMedium

Junagadh finally joined the Indian Union after which event?

  1. A.A plebiscite held in February 1948
  2. B.A police action in September 1948
  3. C.An award of the Boundary Commission
  4. D.A referendum held in 1956
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Correct answer: A. A plebiscite held in February 1948

The Nawab of Junagadh, Mahabat Khan III, announced accession to Pakistan in September 1947 although his small state in Kathiawar was surrounded by Indian territory and had a largely Hindu population.

Q10384.Indian HistoryMedium

What did the Indian Independence Act, 1947 do with the paramountcy that the British Crown exercised over the princely states?

  1. A.Transferred it to the Government of India
  2. B.Divided it between India and Pakistan
  3. C.Allowed it to lapse from 15 August 1947
  4. D.Continued it for a further ten years
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Correct answer: C. Allowed it to lapse from 15 August 1947

The Act let paramountcy lapse with effect from 15 August 1947, so in strict law every princely state became free either to accede to India, to accede to Pakistan, or to attempt to remain outside both.

Q10385.Indian HistoryEasy

Maharaja Hari Singh signed the Instrument of Accession for Jammu and Kashmir on which date?

  1. A.15 August 1947
  2. B.26 October 1947
  3. C.26 January 1948
  4. D.17 September 1948
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Correct answer: B. 26 October 1947

The Maharaja had hoped to stay out of both dominions and had signed a standstill arrangement, but when tribal raiders supported from across the border entered the valley and advanced towards Srinagar in late October 1947 he asked India for military help.

Q10387.Indian HistoryMedium

Who was the Secretary of the States Department who worked with Sardar Patel on the integration of the princely states?

  1. A.H. M. Patel
  2. B.V. P. Menon
  3. C.K. M. Munshi
  4. D.B. N. Rau
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Correct answer: B. V. P. Menon

As Secretary of the States Department he drafted the Instrument of Accession and the Standstill Agreement, travelled from court to court to collect signatures, and wrote the standard first-hand account of the episode, The Story of the Integration of the Indian States.

Q10388.Indian HistoryMedium

Under the Instrument of Accession, a princely state transferred which three subjects to the Government of India?

  1. A.Defence, external affairs and communications
  2. B.Defence, taxation and police
  3. C.Currency, customs and railways
  4. D.Education, health and local government
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Correct answer: A. Defence, external affairs and communications

The Instrument of Accession was kept deliberately narrow so that a ruler could sign it without feeling that he had surrendered his state, and all other powers stayed with him for the time being.

Q10390.Indian EconomyEasy

Amartya Sen, whose work shaped the idea of human development, is associated with which approach, and in which year did he receive the Nobel Prize in Economics?

  1. A.Capability approach, 1998
  2. B.Basic needs approach, 1993
  3. C.Capability approach, 2004
  4. D.Welfare approach, 1998
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Correct answer: A. Capability approach, 1998

Sen argued that development should be judged by what people are actually able to be and to do, their capabilities, rather than by the goods they own or the income they earn, and this is the reasoning behind the HDI's choice of health, education and a decent standard of living.

Q10391.Indian EconomyMedium

The Gender Inequality Index, introduced in the Human Development Report of 2010, measures the loss in achievement due to gender gaps in which three areas?

  1. A.Health, education and income
  2. B.Reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market
  3. C.Literacy, nutrition and employment
  4. D.Education, political representation and property ownership
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Correct answer: B. Reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market

The Gender Inequality Index replaced the Gender Development Index and the Gender Empowerment Measure of 1995 and shows the human development cost of inequality between women and men in those three dimensions.

Q10392.Indian EconomyMedium

The Gini coefficient is derived from which curve?

  1. A.Phillips curve
  2. B.Lorenz curve
  3. C.Laffer curve
  4. D.Kuznets curve
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Correct answer: B. Lorenz curve

The further the curve sags away from the straight diagonal of perfect equality, the greater the inequality, and the Gini coefficient measures exactly that gap on a scale from 0, perfect equality, to 1, perfect inequality.

Q10393.Indian EconomyHard

The Physical Quality of Life Index, developed by Morris David Morris, was built from which set of indicators?

  1. A.Life expectancy at age one, infant mortality rate and basic literacy
  2. B.Life expectancy at birth, mean years of schooling and income per head
  3. C.Infant mortality rate, literacy and gross domestic product per head
  4. D.Nutrition, sanitation and housing
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Correct answer: A. Life expectancy at age one, infant mortality rate and basic literacy

Morris gave equal weight to three indicators only, life expectancy at age one, the infant mortality rate and basic literacy, and the striking feature of his index is that income appears nowhere in it; he argued that income is a means and that the results of development should be measured…

Q10394.Indian EconomyMedium

The global Multidimensional Poverty Index is published by the UNDP together with which institution?

  1. A.Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
  2. B.International Labour Organization
  3. C.Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  4. D.Food and Agriculture Organization
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Correct answer: A. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative

The index was introduced in the 2010 Human Development Report and is produced jointly with that initiative at the University of Oxford, whose Alkire-Foster method identifies households deprived at the same time in several of ten indicators grouped under health, education and standard of living.

Q10397.Indian EconomyMedium

In the current method of calculating the Human Development Index, the standard of living dimension is measured by which indicator?

  1. A.Gross domestic product per head at market prices
  2. B.Gross national income per head at purchasing power parity
  3. C.Net national product at factor cost
  4. D.Household final consumption expenditure
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Correct answer: B. Gross national income per head at purchasing power parity

The switch was made in the 2010 Human Development Report. Gross national income was preferred to gross domestic product because it includes incomes earned abroad and sent home and excludes incomes earned in the country by foreigners, so it is closer to what residents can actually spend; and purchasing power…

Q10398.Indian EconomyAsked in: SSC GD Constable · 18 Nov 2021, Shift 2Easy

Which of the following is a statistical tool that measures a country's overall achievement in terms of health, education and income?

  1. A.Human development index
  2. B.Per capita income
  3. C.Life expectancy
  4. D.Political stability
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Correct answer: A. Human development index

It is the composite measure that puts health, education and income together in a single figure between 0 and 1, built as the geometric mean of one index for each of the three dimensions, and published by the UNDP since 1990.