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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

Q11761.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

The Bankers' Books Evidence Act deals mainly with:

  1. A.The interest rate a bank may charge on advances
  2. B.The use of certified copies of entries in a bank's books as evidence in legal proceedings
  3. C.The insurance of deposits held by a bank
  4. D.The appointment of auditors of a banking company
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Correct answer: B. The use of certified copies of entries in a bank's books as evidence in legal proceedings

The Act allows a certified copy of an entry in a banker's book to be received in a legal proceeding as prima facie proof of that entry, so that a bank need not produce its original records and its officers are summoned only in limited circumstances.

Q11762.Banking & Financial AwarenessHard

The nationalisation of fourteen major commercial banks announced in July 1969 was given lasting legal effect by which Act?

  1. A.The State Bank of India Act, 1955
  2. B.The Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970
  3. C.The Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  4. D.The Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976
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Correct answer: B. The Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970

Fourteen banks were nationalised on 19 July 1969 by an ordinance; after the Supreme Court struck down the ordinance and the Act that followed it, Parliament enacted the Act of 1970, and a similar Act of 1980 covered the six banks nationalised on 15 April 1980.

Q11763.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Debt Recovery Tribunals in India were established under an Act of which year?

  1. A.1949
  2. B.1985
  3. C.1993
  4. D.2002
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Correct answer: C. 1993

The Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993, passed after the Tiwari Committee recommended a special forum for bank dues, created the Debt Recovery Tribunals and the Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunals to decide applications by banks and financial institutions above a prescribed amount and to issue…

Q11764.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Which Act enables a bank to take possession of the security for a loan without the intervention of a court?

  1. A.The Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993
  2. B.The SARFAESI Act, 2002
  3. C.The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016
  4. D.The Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002
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Correct answer: B. The SARFAESI Act, 2002

Its full name is the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, and Section 13 lets a secured creditor issue a demand notice under sub-section (2) giving the borrower sixty days to pay and, on default, take possession of the secured asset under sub-section (4)…

Q11765.Banking & Financial AwarenessEasy

Dishonour of a cheque for insufficiency of funds in the account is an offence under which section of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881?

  1. A.Section 31
  2. B.Section 118
  3. C.Section 138
  4. D.Section 148
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Correct answer: C. Section 138

Inserted into the Negotiable Instruments Act by the amendment of 1988, it makes the drawer of a cheque that is returned unpaid for insufficiency of funds, or because it exceeds the arrangement, punishable with imprisonment or fine, provided the payee gives notice of demand within the prescribed time and the…

Q11766.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

The Statutory Liquidity Ratio is prescribed under which provision?

  1. A.Section 42(1) of the RBI Act, 1934
  2. B.Section 24 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  3. C.Section 17 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  4. D.Section 45-IA of the RBI Act, 1934
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Correct answer: B. Section 24 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949

It requires every banking company to maintain in India, in cash, gold or unencumbered approved securities, assets of a value not less than the prescribed percentage of its demand and time liabilities, and that percentage is the Statutory Liquidity Ratio.

Q11768.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

The Banking Companies Act, 1949 was renamed the Banking Regulation Act with effect from:

  1. A.1 April 1935
  2. B.1 January 1949
  3. C.1 March 1966
  4. D.19 July 1969
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Correct answer: C. 1 March 1966

The Act was passed in 1949 as the Banking Companies Act and came into force on 16 March 1949; when its scope was extended to cooperative banks, it was renamed the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 with effect from 1 March 1966, the year being retained in the title.

Q11769.Banking & Financial AwarenessEasy

Which Act gives the Reserve Bank of India the sole right to issue bank notes in India?

  1. A.The Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  2. B.The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934
  3. C.The Coinage Act, 2011
  4. D.The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
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Correct answer: B. The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934

Section 22 of that Act gives the Reserve Bank the sole right to issue bank notes in India, and the Bank has done so since it began operations on 1 April 1935.