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SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

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.

SSC CGL GK Questions with Answers

Q11162.Indian HistoryMedium

What were dagh and chehra in the Mughal military system?

  1. A.Two kinds of jagir assigned to nobles
  2. B.The branding of horses and the descriptive roll of soldiers
  3. C.Two ranks in the provincial revenue service
  4. D.Two forms of land measurement
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Correct answer: B. The branding of horses and the descriptive roll of soldiers

Mansabdars were paid for the troopers they maintained, and the standing temptation was to hire horses and men for the day of inspection and send them away afterwards.

Q11163.Indian HistoryEasy

The dahsala or zabti system of revenue settlement, completed in 1580, is associated with

  1. A.Raja Todar Mal
  2. B.Raja Man Singh
  3. C.Abul Fazl
  4. D.Shah Mansur
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Correct answer: A. Raja Todar Mal

Under his settlement the average produce and the average price of the previous ten years were calculated for every crop in every locality, the demand was fixed at about one-third of that average produce and stated in cash per bigha, and land was measured with the bamboo jarib and the…

Q11164.Indian HistoryMedium

In the mansabdari system, the two numbers attached to a mansab, zat and sawar, stood respectively for

  1. A.personal pay and rank, and the number of horsemen to be maintained
  2. B.the area of the jagir, and the revenue assessed on it
  3. C.the years of service, and the number of elephants kept
  4. D.the amount of cash salary, and the rate of land revenue
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Correct answer: A. personal pay and rank, and the number of horsemen to be maintained

The zat number fixed the salary of the holder and his place in the order of precedence at court, while the sawar number fixed the contingent of cavalry he had to keep ready for the emperor.

Q11165.Indian HistoryAsked in: CTET · 24th Dec 2021Medium

Consider the following statements about the Ain-i-Akbari and choose the correct option. (A) It was written by Abul Fazl. (B) It has rich statistical details about crops, prices, revenues and wages. (C) It deals with the details of the ancestors of Akbar.

  1. A.(A) and (B) are true
  2. B.(B) and (C) are true
  3. C.(A) and (C) are true
  4. D.(A), (B) and (C) are true
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Correct answer: A. (A) and (B) are true

The Ain-i-Akbari was written by Abul Fazl, the courtier and friend of Akbar, and it forms the third volume of the Akbarnama; it is an administrative gazetteer, listing departments and officers, the subas with their sarkars and parganas, measured areas, revenue rates, prices and wages, which is why historians use…

Q11166.Indian HistoryAsked in: Delhi · 8 April 2022, Shift 2Easy

In the Mughal administration, which of the following departments was known as Mir Bakhshi?

  1. A.Factory department
  2. B.Revenue department
  3. C.Justice department
  4. D.Army department
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Correct answer: D. Army department

The Mir Bakhshi was the head of the military establishment: he kept the muster rolls of the mansabdars, verified the horses and men at inspection, recommended candidates for rank and countersigned their pay orders, and the news writers and intelligence reporters of the provinces also sent their reports through his…

Q11167.Indian EconomyHard

Which committee submitted a report in 2015 on revisiting and revitalising the public-private partnership model of infrastructure?

  1. A.Committee chaired by Vijay Kelkar
  2. B.Committee chaired by C. Rangarajan
  3. C.Committee chaired by Bimal Jalan
  4. D.Committee chaired by M. Narasimham
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Correct answer: A. Committee chaired by Vijay Kelkar

Set up by the Finance Ministry after a decade in which stalled road and power concessions turned into bad loans, the Kelkar Committee reported in 2015 that risk had been pushed on to whoever would accept it rather than on to the party best able to manage it.

Q11169.Indian EconomyEasy

The PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan, launched in October 2021, is best described as

  1. A.a GIS-based digital platform that brings the project layers of infrastructure ministries onto one map
  2. B.a concessional loan window for State road corporations
  3. C.a cess levied on freight carried by national highways
  4. D.a dedicated corridor for freight trains between Delhi and Mumbai
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Correct answer: A. a GIS-based digital platform that brings the project layers of infrastructure ministries onto one map

Launched on 13 October 2021, PM Gati Shakti is an institutional answer to the old complaint that a road is dug up soon after it is laid because a pipeline or a cable was planned separately.

Q11170.Indian EconomyEasy

The National Monetisation Pipeline, which lists operating central assets to be leased to private operators, was released by which organisation?

  1. A.Reserve Bank of India
  2. B.NITI Aayog
  3. C.Securities and Exchange Board of India
  4. D.Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
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Correct answer: B. NITI Aayog

The National Monetisation Pipeline was released in August 2021 in two volumes, the second of which lists the assets ministry by ministry, with an aggregate monetisation potential of about six lakh crore rupees over four years from roads, power transmission, railways, pipelines, warehouses, stadiums and airports.

Q11171.Indian EconomyEasy

Which of the following is NOT a public-private partnership model?

  1. A.BOT (Annuity)
  2. B.Hybrid Annuity Model
  3. C.Engineering, Procurement and Construction
  4. D.Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer
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Correct answer: C. Engineering, Procurement and Construction

In an EPC contract the government owns the project, funds it from its own budget and simply buys construction services; the contractor is paid for the work done, keeps no operating responsibility and takes no revenue risk, so none of the defining features of a partnership is present.

Q11172.Indian EconomyMedium

In the Toll-Operate-Transfer (TOT) model, what exactly is handed over to the private operator?

  1. A.A greenfield expressway that is still under construction
  2. B.An operating national highway stretch that already collects toll
  3. C.A plot of land for building a logistics park
  4. D.A railway line owned by a State government
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Correct answer: B. An operating national highway stretch that already collects toll

Under TOT the authority bundles completed highway sections that have a proven traffic record and auctions the right to collect toll on them for a long concession, usually thirty years, against a single upfront payment.

Q11173.Indian EconomyHard

Which body appraises public-private partnership projects of the central sector and is chaired by the Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs?

  1. A.Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee
  2. B.Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
  3. C.Governing Council of NITI Aayog
  4. D.Finance Commission of India
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Correct answer: A. Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee

It is the standing inter-ministerial committee that examines the concession agreement, the risk sharing and the financial structure of a central sector PPP proposal before approval, and its chair is the Secretary of the Department of Economic Affairs, with the secretaries of Expenditure, Legal Affairs, NITI Aayog and the sponsoring…

Q11174.Indian EconomyMedium

Under the Viability Gap Funding scheme, the capital grant from the Central Government is normally limited to what share of the total project cost?

  1. A.10 per cent
  2. B.20 per cent
  3. C.40 per cent
  4. D.50 per cent
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Correct answer: B. 20 per cent

Viability Gap Funding is a one-time or deferred capital grant for a project that is economically necessary but commercially unviable, such as a rural road or a water supply line whose user charges can never repay the capital.

Q11176.Indian EconomyAsked in: Uttar Pradesh · UPPSC Civil Services General Studies OffMedium

Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Assertion (A): Government has launched the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) for the period of 2020-30. Reason (R): The objective of NIP is to provide equitable access to infrastructure for all. Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

  1. A.Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
  2. B.Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
  3. C.(A) is true but (R) is false
  4. D.(A) is false but (R) is true
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Correct answer: D. (A) is false but (R) is true

The National Infrastructure Pipeline was announced in the Budget speech of 2019-20 and the task force under the Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, drew it up for the five years from 2019-20 to 2024-25, with projected capital expenditure of about 111 lakh crore rupees.

Q11177.Environment & EcologyHard

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which prepares the assessment reports used at the conferences, was established in 1988 by

  1. A.the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme
  2. B.the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC
  3. C.the United Nations Security Council
  4. D.the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
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Correct answer: A. the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme

The panel was created in 1988, four years before the climate convention existed, which is why B is wrong: the IPCC is not an organ of the convention, although its reports set the agenda for every conference and the first assessment report of 1990 led directly to the negotiation of…

Q11178.Environment & EcologyMedium

Under the Paris Agreement, how often is the global stocktake of collective progress carried out?

  1. A.Every year
  2. B.Every three years
  3. C.Every five years
  4. D.Every ten years
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Correct answer: C. Every five years

The agreement works on a five-year ambition cycle: parties submit nationally determined contributions, implement them, and then the stocktake assesses where the world stands on mitigation, adaptation and the means of implementation, so that the next round of contributions can be stronger.

Q11179.Environment & EcologyMedium

In the Panchamrit announced by India at the Glasgow conference in 2021, the target year for net zero emissions is

  1. A.2050
  2. B.2060
  3. C.2070
  4. D.2080
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Correct answer: C. 2070

Panchamrit, the five nectar elements announced by India at COP26, consists of five hundred gigawatts of non-fossil energy capacity by 2030, meeting half of the country's energy requirement from renewable sources by 2030, reducing projected emissions by one billion tonnes by 2030, reducing the emissions intensity of the economy by…

Q11180.Environment & EcologyHard

The principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities is laid down in which instrument?

  1. A.Article 3 of the UNFCCC, 1992
  2. B.The Montreal Protocol, 1987
  3. C.The Ramsar Convention, 1971
  4. D.The Stockholm Declaration, 1972
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Correct answer: A. Article 3 of the UNFCCC, 1992

The article directs parties to protect the climate system on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, and adds that the developed country parties should take the lead.