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.
The Goods and Services Tax came into force in India on
GST was rolled out at a midnight session of Parliament and the date is now observed every year as GST Day.
Read the full explanation →Which article of the Constitution provides that no tax shall be levied or collected except by authority of law?
It is the foundation of the whole tax system, because it means the executive cannot demand money from a citizen without a law passed by the competent legislature.
Read the full explanation →Which among the following taxes is NOT imposed on goods and services?
A gift tax is charged on the transfer of money or property from one person to another without consideration; it is a tax on a transfer between persons, not on any sale of goods or supply of services.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is an Indirect Tax in India?
GST is charged on the supply of goods and services, and although the registered supplier deposits it with the government, the amount is recovered from the buyer in the price.
Read the full explanation →Chilika, the largest brackish water lagoon in India, lies on the coast of which state?
Chilika lies on the eastern coastal plain south of the Mahanadi delta, separated from the Bay of Bengal by a long sandbar, and it is the largest brackish water lagoon in the country and a Ramsar wetland famous for migratory birds and the Irrawaddy dolphin.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is a Trans-Himalayan range?
The Trans-Himalayan ranges, the Karakoram, the Ladakh and the Zaskar, lie north of the Greater Himalaya and belong structurally to the Tibetan block rather than to the Himalayan fold belt.
Read the full explanation →Majuli, the largest river island in India, lies in which river?
Majuli lies in the braided channel of the Brahmaputra in Assam, where the river splits into many arms and deposits enormous quantities of silt.
Read the full explanation →Indira Point, the southernmost point of Indian territory, lies in
Indira Point stands at the southern tip of Great Nicobar Island, the largest of the Nicobars, and it is the southernmost point of the territory of India.
Read the full explanation →Which channel separates the Andaman Islands from the Nicobar Islands?
It runs roughly along the ten degree north parallel, which is where it gets its name, and it divides Little Andaman in the north from Car Nicobar in the south, separating the two halves of the union territory.
Read the full explanation →The black soil of the north-western Deccan has developed on which kind of rock?
The Deccan Trap was formed by vast fissure eruptions that spread sheet after sheet of lava over the north-western peninsula.
Read the full explanation →Which range is regarded as the oldest fold mountain system in India?
The Aravalli was folded in the Precambrian era, hundreds of millions of years before the Himalaya rose, and long erosion has reduced it to a chain of low residual ridges running north-east from Gujarat through Rajasthan towards Delhi.
Read the full explanation →The Palghat Gap, an important break in the Western Ghats, lies between which two hill groups?
The Palghat Gap is a wide trough about thirty kilometres across, and it is the principal natural break in the otherwise continuous wall of the Western Ghats.
Read the full explanation →The Narmada and the Tapi are unusual among peninsular rivers because they
Both rivers flow westward along faulted troughs, or rift valleys, that lie between the Vindhya and the Satpura ranges, and both empty into the Arabian Sea through estuaries instead of deltas.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is the highest peak of peninsular India?
Anaimudi stands in the Anaimalai hills of Kerala, where the Anaimalai, Palani and Cardamom hills meet, and rises to about 2,695 metres.
Read the full explanation →The narrow, pebble-studded belt at the foot of the Shiwaliks, where the streams descending from the mountains disappear underground, is called the
Where the rivers leave the hills they drop their coarsest load, and the resulting belt of gravel and pebbles is so porous that the smaller streams sink into it and vanish.
Read the full explanation →Where is Lakshadweep located?
Lakshadweep is a group of small coral islands, atolls and reefs lying off the Malabar coast of Kerala in the Arabian Sea, built on a submarine ridge.
Read the full explanation →The India State of Forest Report is published by which organisation?
Set up in 1981 and based at Dehradun, it assesses the country's forest and tree cover from satellite data and brings out the India State of Forest Report once every two years, giving the cover state by state and by density class.
Read the full explanation →The Montreal Protocol of 1987 deals with
The Montreal Protocol was adopted under the Vienna Convention of 1985 and sets a timetable for phasing out chlorofluorocarbons, halons and similar chemicals.
Read the full explanation →The Ramsar Convention is concerned with the conservation of
The convention was signed in 1971 at Ramsar, a town in Iran, and is the oldest of the modern global conservation treaties.
Read the full explanation →Article 48A and Article 51A, clause g, relating to the protection of the environment, were inserted by which constitutional amendment?
It added Article 48A to the directive principles, asking the state to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard forests and wildlife, and Article 51A, clause g, to the fundamental duties, laying the same obligation on every citizen.
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