Static GK decides the General Awareness score in SSC CGL. Of the 25 questions in Tier-I and the 25 in Tier-II Paper-I, most come from Indian Polity, History, Geography, the Economy and General Science, the areas the CGL 2026 notice lists as History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Policy and Scientific Research relating to India and its neighbouring countries. Polity questions ask about articles, parts and schedules of the Constitution, amendments, the President, Parliament, the Supreme Court and constitutional bodies. History covers the Indus Valley, the Mauryas and Guptas, the Delhi Sultanate and Mughals, and the freedom struggle from 1857 to 1947. Geography asks about rivers, soils, climate, national parks, minerals and world physical features. The Economy part asks about budget terms, the RBI, banking and basic concepts. General Science is school-level Physics, Chemistry and Biology. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for SSC CGL, written as short facts and tables so a topic can be revised in one sitting. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what you retained.
The Battle of Hydaspes in 326 BCE was fought between Alexander and which Indian ruler?
Porus ruled the Paurava kingdom between the Jhelum and the Chenab and fought Alexander on the Hydaspes, the Greek name for the Jhelum.
Read the full explanation →Which was the first integrated programme of rural development in independent India?
Its weaknesses led to the Balwant Rai Mehta Committee of 1957, whose recommendation of democratic decentralisation gave India panchayati raj.
Read the full explanation →Which rural development mission organises rural women into self help groups for livelihood support?
It organises poor rural women into self help groups, federates them at the village and block level, and supports them with a revolving fund, a community investment fund and interest subvention on bank loans.
Read the full explanation →The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, meant for all weather rural roads, was launched in which year?
The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana was launched on 25 December 2000 to connect unconnected habitations with all weather roads, generally those with a population above five hundred in the plains and above two hundred and fifty in hill, tribal and desert areas, and it later added the upgradation of…
Read the full explanation →What wage to material ratio has to be maintained in works taken up under MGNREGA?
At least sixty per cent of the cost of the works must go on wages and not more than forty per cent on material, so that the scheme remains an employment programme rather than a construction programme.
Read the full explanation →Under which section of MGNREGA does the Gram Sabha conduct the social audit of works?
The correct answer is C, Section 17, which makes the Gram Sabha responsible for monitoring the execution of works within the panchayat and for conducting a regular social audit of all the projects taken up under the scheme, with every record open to public inspection.
Read the full explanation →What is the minimum share of women among MGNREGA beneficiaries required by the Act?
Priority has to be given to women in such a way that at least one third of the beneficiaries are women who have registered and asked for work, and the Act also requires equal wages for women and men for the same work.
Read the full explanation →Under MGNREGA, work has to be provided within what distance of the applicant's village?
The Act requires that work be provided ordinarily within five kilometres of the village of the applicant, and if the worksite is farther away, the worker is paid an extra ten per cent of the wage rate to meet the cost of travel and living.
Read the full explanation →Under MGNREGA, an unemployment allowance becomes payable if work is not provided within
If employment is not provided within fifteen days of the application, or of the date from which work is sought, whichever is later, the applicant becomes entitled to an unemployment allowance, which the State Government pays from its own funds.
Read the full explanation →On which date was the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act renamed after Mahatma Gandhi?
The Act was renamed on Gandhi Jayanti in 2009, and from then it has been known as MGNREGA, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.
Read the full explanation →The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act came into force on which date?
The correct answer is B, 2 February 2006, when the Act came into force in 200 of the poorest districts of the country, the first launch taking place at Bandlapalli in the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh.
Read the full explanation →Enacted on 7 September 2005, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in India entitles, by demand, every rural household to a minimum of _______ of paid work each year at minimum wage.
Section 3 of the Act obliges the State Government to provide at least one hundred days of unskilled manual wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer for such work, and the guarantee belongs to the household, not to each member.
Read the full explanation →The Masai are a pastoral people of which region?
The Masai are a cattle-keeping people of the East African savanna, moving their herds with the seasonal rains; their life is the standard textbook example of pastoral nomadism in the tropical grasslands.
Read the full explanation →Which mountain range is taken as the boundary between Europe and Asia?
The Ural mountains, an old worn range running north to south across Russia, together with the Ural river, the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus, form the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia, which is why the two are often treated as one land mass called Eurasia.
Read the full explanation →Which river flows through the largest number of countries in the world?
It also passes more capital cities than any other river, among them Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade.
Read the full explanation →The longest river of Europe, the Volga, drains into which water body?
The Volga, about 3,530 kilometres long, is the longest river of Europe and flows entirely within Russia to end in the Caspian, which is a landlocked salt lake and the largest lake in the world, so the Volga never reaches an ocean.
Read the full explanation →Which is the highest peak of Europe?
The correct answer is B, Mount Elbrus, 5,642 metres, a dormant volcano in the Caucasus range in Russia and the highest point of the continent.
Read the full explanation →The Great Rift Valley extends from which region to Mozambique?
The Great Rift Valley runs for about six thousand kilometres from the Jordan valley and the Dead Sea, down the Red Sea, through Ethiopia and the lake region of East Africa to Mozambique, and it is the largest rift on the continents, formed where the crust is being pulled apart.
Read the full explanation →Which is the deepest lake of Africa?
Its shape and depth come from the rift: the floor between two parallel faults sank, giving a trough rather than a shallow basin.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest hot desert in the world?
The Bedouin are its best known nomadic people, and oases such as those of the Nile and the Fezzan support its settled life.
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