SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

The monsoon current enters from the Bay of Bengal in the south-east and loses moisture as it travels up the plain, so the eastern districts and the Terai of Gorakhpur, Bahraich and Lakhimpur Kheri are the wettest, while Mathura, Agra and the Bundelkhand districts of Jhansi, Jalaun and Banda are…

This branch strikes the Ganga delta, is turned west by the Himalaya and moves up the Ganga plain, so it reaches eastern Uttar Pradesh about the middle of June and then travels on to the west, which is why the east of the state gets both earlier and heavier rain.

Keoladeo Ghana National Park at Bharatpur, once the duck shooting reserve of the Bharatpur rulers, was listed in 1981 and is also a World Heritage Site famous for its winter migratory birds; the Sambhar salt lake was listed in 1990 and attracts flamingos.

Nakki lake lies at Mount Abu, the only hill station of Rajasthan, in Sirohi district, and the local story that it was dug out with nails gives it its name; Toad Rock stands on its edge and the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi were immersed in it.

The correct answer is A, Maharana Jai Singh of Mewar, who dammed the Gomti river in the late seventeenth century to make the lake in Udaipur district; it is the largest artificial freshwater lake of Rajasthan and is surrounded by the Jaisamand wildlife sanctuary, with marble pavilions and the Hawa…

The lake spreads over the districts of Jaipur, Nagaur and Ajmer, is fed by the Mendha, Rupangarh, Khari and Khandel streams, has been worked for salt for centuries and was declared a Ramsar site in 1990, drawing flamingos in winter.

The Mahi enters Rajasthan from Madhya Pradesh in Banswara district, where it is dammed as the Mahi Bajaj Sagar, a joint project of Rajasthan and Gujarat; the river is called the Ganga of Vagad and receives the Som, the Jakham and the Anas.

The Bisalpur dam stands on the Banas in Tonk district and supplies drinking water to Jaipur, Ajmer, Tonk and the towns between them, which makes it the most important water project of eastern Rajasthan.

It rises in the Shivalik hills near Kalka, enters Rajasthan at Talwara in Hanumangarh district and loses itself in the sands near Suratgarh and Anupgarh, so it never reaches the sea and is called the dead river; its dry bed is known locally as the Nali, and Harappan sites such…

The Luni begins in the Naga hills near Ajmer and is called the Sagarmati in its first stretch; after the Sarsuti joins it near Govindgarh the combined stream is called the Luni, and it finally spreads into the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat.

The Banas runs about 480 kilometres north-east across the state and joins the Chambal at Rameshwar Ghat in Sawai Madhopur, gathering the Berach, Kothari, Khari, Dai, Morel and Kalisil on the way, and its name means the hope of the forest.

It rises at Janapav hill near Mhow in the Vindhyan range of Madhya Pradesh, enters Rajasthan in Chittorgarh district and flows past Kota, Bundi, Sawai Madhopur, Karauli and Dholpur to join the Yamuna, and because it is fed by the heavier rainfall of the Malwa plateau it carries water through…

The three language formula, recommended by the Kothari Commission and adopted in the National Policy on Education, places the mother tongue or the regional language first, Hindi second and English third in Hindi-speaking states, while non-Hindi states teach the regional language, Hindi and English; in practice some states substitute another…

The movement forced the government to appoint the States Reorganisation Commission under Fazl Ali, whose report of 1955 led to the States Reorganisation Act of 1956 and to a map drawn largely along language lines.

Inserted by the Seventh Amendment Act of 1956, it provides for a Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities appointed by the President to investigate all matters relating to the safeguards given to linguistic minorities and to report to the President, who causes the report to be laid before Parliament; the officer…

The islands lie off the Kerala coast, their people speak a dialect close to Malayalam except on Minicoy, where Mahl is spoken, and the administration works in Malayalam along with English.

Uttarakhand made Sanskrit its second official language in 2010 and Himachal Pradesh followed in 2019, both keeping Hindi as the first official language; the step is largely symbolic but is asked very often.

The Goa, Daman and Diu Official Language Act of 1987 made Konkani the official language, and the same year Goa became a full state; the script is specified because Konkani is written in more than one script.

The state has many tribal languages and no single dominant tongue, so English, already the language of administration and of education through the churches and schools, was adopted as the official language; Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya have done the same, Meghalaya using Khasi and Garo as associate languages.

The correct answer is C, the Ninety-second Amendment, passed in 2003, which took the Eighth Schedule from eighteen languages to twenty-two by adding Bodo of Assam, Dogri of the Jammu region, Maithili of Bihar and Santhali, the language of the Santhal people spread over Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha.