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 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.
Read the full explanation →The National Biodiversity Authority has its headquarters at
The Authority was set up under the Biological Diversity Act of 2002 and is based at Chennai in Tamil Nadu.
Read the full explanation →The Central Pollution Control Board was constituted under which Act?
The Board was created by that Act to advise the central government, to lay down standards for effluents and to coordinate the work of the State Pollution Control Boards, which were set up by the same law in the states.
Read the full explanation →The National Green Tribunal was established under an Act of which year?
The National Green Tribunal Act was passed in 2010 and the tribunal began work in the same year, to provide quick and specialised disposal of cases on environmental protection and forest conservation.
Read the full explanation →The Environment (Protection) Act, often described as an umbrella legislation, was enacted in which year?
The Act was passed in the wake of the Bhopal gas tragedy and gives the central government a general power to take any measure it considers necessary to protect and improve the quality of the environment.
Read the full explanation →National Clean Air Programme was launched by the Central Government in which year?
The National Clean Air Programme was launched by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in January 2019 as a national framework to cut particulate pollution in cities that do not meet the national ambient air quality standards.
Read the full explanation →The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) was signed in the year-
The Stockholm Convention was adopted in 2001 and came into force in 2004.
Read the full explanation →The Red Data book which lists endangered species is maintained -
Founded in 1948 and based in Switzerland, it maintains the Red List of Threatened Species, which grades species as least concern, near threatened, vulnerable, endangered, critically endangered, extinct in the wild or extinct.
Read the full explanation →One of India's worst industrial disasters of all time occurred in Bhopal on December 1984, in which of the following factories?
On the night of 2 and 3 December 1984, methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the pesticide plant of Union Carbide India Limited at Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, killing thousands of people and injuring many more.
Read the full explanation →'Sengol', installed in the new Parliament building of India, was seen as a symbol of the path of service, duty and nation in which Empire of the past?
The Sengol is a gold-plated silver sceptre topped by a figure of Nandi. In the Chola tradition, a new king received such a sceptre from a high priest as a symbol of the transfer of power and of the ruler's duty to govern justly.
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