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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

Q12001.Banking & Financial AwarenessHard

Regional Rural Banks were set up on the recommendation of which body?

  1. A.Gorwala Committee
  2. B.Narasimham Working Group
  3. C.Maclagan Committee
  4. D.Vaidyanathan Committee
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Correct answer: B. Narasimham Working Group

The correct answer is B, the Narasimham Working Group of 1975, which proposed a new kind of rural institution combining the local feel of a cooperative with the discipline of a commercial bank, and the first Regional Rural Banks followed on 2 October of that year.

Q12002.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Which was the first Regional Rural Bank established in India?

  1. A.Prathama Bank
  2. B.Haryana Gramin Bank
  3. C.Kerala Gramin Bank
  4. D.Baroda Rajasthan Kshetriya Gramin Bank
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Correct answer: A. Prathama Bank

Prathama Bank, with its head office at Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh and sponsored by Syndicate Bank, was the first of the five Regional Rural Banks set up on 2 October 1975, and its name, meaning the first, is itself the hint.

Q12003.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

In a Regional Rural Bank, the share of the sponsor bank in the paid up capital is:

  1. A.Fifty per cent
  2. B.Fifteen per cent
  3. C.Thirty five per cent
  4. D.Twenty five per cent
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Correct answer: C. Thirty five per cent

The capital of a Regional Rural Bank is shared in the ratio of fifty, thirty five and fifteen: the Central Government holds fifty per cent, the sponsor bank thirty five per cent and the State Government fifteen per cent.

Q12004.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Regional Rural Banks in India were given statutory form by which Act?

  1. A.Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  2. B.Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976
  3. C.NABARD Act, 1981
  4. D.Cooperative Societies Act, 1912
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Correct answer: B. Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976

The first five Regional Rural Banks were created on 2 October 1975 by an Ordinance, and that Ordinance was replaced the next year by the Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976, which fixes their objects, capital and shareholding.

Q12005.Banking & Financial AwarenessAsked in: SSC CHSL · 19 March 2020, Shift 2Easy

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) was established in:

  1. A.1982
  2. B.1991
  3. C.1987
  4. D.1975
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Correct answer: A. 1982

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development began work in 1982, set up on the recommendation of the Sivaraman Committee, and it is the apex development bank for agriculture and the rural economy, refinancing and supervising both Regional Rural Banks and cooperative banks.

Q12007.Awards & HonoursHard

The Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding, instituted in 1965, was first conferred on whom?

  1. A.Mother Teresa
  2. B.U Thant
  3. C.Nelson Mandela
  4. D.Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
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Correct answer: B. U Thant

The Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding was instituted by the Government of India in 1965 and administered by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, and its first recipient in that same year was U Thant of Burma, then Secretary General of the United Nations.

Q12008.Awards & HonoursHard

Kabir Puraskar, instituted in 1990, is given for which of the following?

  1. A.Contribution to Hindi literature
  2. B.Acts of courage in saving the lives of members of another community
  3. C.Research on medieval Indian saints
  4. D.Promotion of handloom weaving
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Correct answer: B. Acts of courage in saving the lives of members of another community

Kabir Puraskar was instituted in 1990 by the Ministry of Home Affairs to honour ordinary citizens who show physical or moral courage in saving the lives and property of members of another community, especially during communal disturbance.

Q12009.Awards & HonoursHard

Which of the following statements about the cash component of the Gandhi Peace Prize is correct?

  1. A.Twenty five lakh rupees
  2. B.One crore rupees
  3. C.Fifty lakh rupees
  4. D.No cash component
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Correct answer: B. One crore rupees

The Gandhi Peace Prize carries one crore rupees in cash, together with a citation, a plaque and a piece of traditional handicraft or handloom, and the money may be paid in any convertible currency because the prize is open to citizens of every country.

Q12011.Awards & HonoursMedium

The Gandhi Peace Prize is administered by which Union ministry?

  1. A.Ministry of Home Affairs
  2. B.Ministry of External Affairs
  3. C.Ministry of Culture
  4. D.Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
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Correct answer: C. Ministry of Culture

The Gandhi Peace Prize is administered by the Ministry of Culture, which issues the notification and arranges the ceremony, although the selection rests with a jury chaired by the Prime Minister.

Q12012.Awards & HonoursMedium

The Gandhi Peace Prize for 2014 was conferred on which of the following?

  1. A.Indian Council of Medical Research
  2. B.Indian Space Research Organisation
  3. C.Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
  4. D.Ramakrishna Mission
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Correct answer: B. Indian Space Research Organisation

The Gandhi Peace Prize for 2014 was conferred on the Indian Space Research Organisation, and it is asked often because a space agency looks out of place among peace awards; the citation recognised the use of space technology for the welfare of ordinary people.

Q12014.Awards & HonoursMedium

The jury that selects the recipient of the Gandhi Peace Prize is chaired by which of the following?

  1. A.The President of India
  2. B.The Chief Justice of India
  3. C.The Prime Minister of India
  4. D.The Union Minister of Culture
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Correct answer: C. The Prime Minister of India

The jury for the Gandhi Peace Prize is chaired by the Prime Minister, and its other members are the Chief Justice of India, the Leader of the single largest Opposition party in the Lok Sabha and two eminent persons.

Q12016.Art & CultureMedium

The Nehru Trophy Boat Race, the best known of the snake boat races of Kerala, is held on which lake?

  1. A.Vembanad Lake at Kumarakom
  2. B.Ashtamudi Lake at Kollam
  3. C.Punnamada Lake at Alappuzha
  4. D.Sasthamkotta Lake
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Correct answer: C. Punnamada Lake at Alappuzha

The Nehru Trophy Boat Race has been rowed on Punnamada Lake at Alappuzha since 1952, when it was instituted after Jawaharlal Nehru watched a race there, and the boats used are the long snake boats called chundan vallam.

Q12018.Art & CultureHard

Mallakhamb, a sport of wrestling and gymnastics performed on a pole, was declared the state game of which state in 2013?

  1. A.Maharashtra
  2. B.Chhattisgarh
  3. C.Madhya Pradesh
  4. D.Rajasthan
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Correct answer: C. Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh declared Mallakhamb its state game in 2013, and the question survives in paper after paper because the art itself is associated with Maharashtra, where it was revived in the nineteenth century as training for wrestlers.