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 Fourth Buddhist Council was held under the patronage of which ruler?
The Fourth Buddhist Council met at Kundalvana in Kashmir in the first century CE under the Kushana king Kanishka, with Vasumitra presiding and Ashvaghosha assisting him.
Read the full explanation →Gautama Buddha delivered his first sermon at which of the following places?
After his enlightenment the Buddha walked to the deer park at Sarnath near Varanasi and taught the Four Noble Truths to the five ascetics who had earlier deserted him.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements about NITI Aayog is correct?
NITI Aayog advises the Union and the state governments, prepares strategy, monitors programmes and acts as a forum for the states, but no money passes through it; that is the sharpest difference from the Planning Commission it replaced.
Read the full explanation →The Atal Innovation Mission is an initiative of which body?
The mission promotes a culture of innovation and enterprise, chiefly through tinkering laboratories in schools and incubation centres in colleges and institutions, and it is run under NITI Aayog as part of its role as the government think tank.
Read the full explanation →Which was the last of the Five Year Plans in India?
It ran from 2012 to 2017 with the aim of faster, more inclusive and sustainable growth, and when it ended no thirteenth plan followed, because NITI Aayog had replaced the Planning Commission and put a long-term vision with a shorter action agenda in place of five year plans.
Read the full explanation →The National Development Council was constituted in which year?
The National Development Council was set up on 6 August 1952 by an executive resolution so that the states could take part in national planning; chaired by the Prime Minister, it included the chief ministers and the members of the Planning Commission, and it gave a plan its final approval…
Read the full explanation →The book Planned Economy for India, published in 1934, was written by
The engineer and statesman set out a ten year programme to move labour from agriculture into industry, and his book of 1934 is treated as the first systematic proposal for planning in India.
Read the full explanation →The Governing Council of NITI Aayog consists of the Prime Minister and
The Governing Council brings together the Prime Minister, the chief ministers of all the states, the chief ministers of union territories that have legislatures and the lieutenant governors of the remaining union territories, so that the Union and the states can settle priorities in one room.
Read the full explanation →Who is the chairperson of NITI Aayog?
The office of Prime Minister carries the chairmanship of NITI Aayog, exactly as it carried the chairmanship of the Planning Commission before 2015 and as it carries the chairmanship of the Governing Council and of the National Development Council.
Read the full explanation →The slogan Garibi Hatao, the removal of poverty, is associated with which Five Year Plan?
Running from 1974 to 1979, it took the removal of poverty and the attainment of self-reliance as its twin objectives, and it is remembered by the slogan Garibi Hatao.
Read the full explanation →The plan holiday in Indian planning was declared after the failure of which Five Year Plan?
The plan of 1961 to 1966 was overwhelmed by the war with China in 1962, the war with Pakistan in 1965 and a severe drought, so instead of a new five year plan the government ran three annual plans from 1966 to 1969, a stretch called the plan holiday.
Read the full explanation →The Second Five Year Plan of India was based on the model given by
The statistician who founded the Indian Statistical Institute gave the Second Plan its framework, in which investment was directed towards heavy and basic industries such as steel, machinery and power on the argument that they would build the capacity to produce everything else.
Read the full explanation →NITI Aayog came into existence on which date?
On that date a cabinet resolution created the National Institution for Transforming India in place of the Planning Commission, keeping the Prime Minister as the head of the new body but changing its work from allocating funds to advising governments.
Read the full explanation →The Planning Commission of India was set up in which year?
The Planning Commission was constituted on 15 March 1950 by a resolution of the Union Cabinet, with the Prime Minister as its chairman, and it drafted every Five Year Plan until it was replaced in 2015.
Read the full explanation →The term Nife is used for which part of the Earth?
Nife is formed from the chemical symbols of nickel and iron, the two metals believed to make up the central part of the planet, and the flow of that metal in the liquid outer core is what generates the Earth magnetic field.
Read the full explanation →Under great heat and pressure, coal is changed into which of the following?
Coal is a sedimentary rock formed from buried plant matter, and prolonged heat and pressure drive off its volatile content and rearrange the carbon, first into harder anthracite and finally into graphite, a metamorphic rock of nearly pure carbon.
Read the full explanation →The layer of the upper mantle over which the tectonic plates move is known as the
It lies in the upper mantle just below the rigid outer shell, is weak and partly molten, and is the main source of the magma that reaches the surface through volcanoes; the plates slide over it.
Read the full explanation →The zone between about 105 and 145 degrees from the epicentre of an earthquake, where seismic waves are not recorded, is called the
The core bends P waves sharply and stops S waves altogether, so a belt of the Earth surface receives neither type of wave from a given earthquake.
Read the full explanation →Granite is an example of which type of rock?
Granite forms when magma cools slowly deep below the surface, which gives the crystals time to grow, so the rock is coarse and speckled.
Read the full explanation →The discontinuity that separates the outer core from the inner core is called the
It marks the change from the molten outer core to the solid inner core, and is named after Inge Lehmann, who deduced from the behaviour of earthquake waves that the innermost part of the planet is solid.
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