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SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

Static GK decides the General Awareness score in SSC CHSL. Of the 25 questions in Tier-I and the 20 in Tier-II, most come from Indian Polity, History, Geography, the Economy and General Science, the areas the CHSL 2026 notice lists as History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Policy and Scientific Research relating to India and its neighbouring countries. The level is that of Class 12, so the questions are direct: which article, which river, which ruler, which year. Polity asks about parts and schedules of the Constitution, fundamental rights, the President, Parliament, the Supreme Court and constitutional bodies. History covers the Indus Valley, the Mauryas and Guptas, the Sultanate and Mughal periods, 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 with everyday applications, and Culture covers dances, festivals, monuments and books. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for SSC CHSL, 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 CHSL GK Questions with Answers

Q8661.GeographyMedium

Industries whose raw material is light and valuable, so that they are not tied to any particular location, are called:

  1. A.Basic industries
  2. B.Footloose industries
  3. C.Cottage industries
  4. D.Heavy industries
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Correct answer: B. Footloose industries

Because their raw material is light, valuable and easy to move, and because they need little power or water, such units are free of the usual pulls of ore, coal and bulky material; electronics, computer assembly, diamond cutting and software are the standard examples, and they depend mainly on skilled…

Q8662.GeographyEasy

Which city is known as the 'Manchester of South India'?

  1. A.Chennai
  2. B.Coimbatore
  3. C.Madurai
  4. D.Bengaluru
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Correct answer: B. Coimbatore

The city has a very large number of cotton textile mills and hosiery units, helped by cotton grown nearby, the hydel power of the Western Ghats and a long tradition of engineering workshops that make textile machinery, and so it is called the Manchester of South India, as Ahmedabad is…

Q8664.GeographyMedium

The first successful cotton textile mill in India was started in 1854 at:

  1. A.Ahmedabad
  2. B.Bombay
  3. C.Coimbatore
  4. D.Kanpur
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Correct answer: B. Bombay

The first successful cotton textile mill began work there in 1854, and the city had every advantage the industry needed: cotton from the black soil of the Deccan, a port through which machinery arrived, capital from its merchants, a humid climate that suited spinning, and workers from the surrounding districts.

Q8665.GeographyEasy

India's first modern iron and steel plant was established in 1907 at:

  1. A.Bhadravati
  2. B.Burnpur
  3. C.Sakchi, now Jamshedpur
  4. D.Durgapur
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Correct answer: C. Sakchi, now Jamshedpur

The Tata Iron and Steel Company set up its works there in 1907, choosing the site because iron ore, coal, manganese and limestone all lay within a short distance in the Chota Nagpur region, water was available from the Subarnarekha and Kharkai rivers, and the railway ran to the port…

Q8666.GeographyMedium

The Rourkela steel plant is located in which state?

  1. A.Jharkhand
  2. B.Odisha
  3. C.Chhattisgarh
  4. D.West Bengal
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Correct answer: B. Odisha

Rourkela stands in the Sundargarh district of Odisha, on the Brahmani river, and was built in the Second Five Year Plan with German collaboration; it drew iron ore from the Odisha deposits, coal from the Jharia belt and limestone from Purnapani.

Q8667.GeographyEasy

The Bhilai steel plant was set up with the collaboration of:

  1. A.Germany
  2. B.The United Kingdom
  3. C.The erstwhile Soviet Union
  4. D.Japan
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Correct answer: C. The erstwhile Soviet Union

Of the three integrated plants taken up in the Second Five Year Plan, Bhilai in what is now Chhattisgarh was built with Soviet help, and the later plant at Bokaro in Jharkhand came up with Soviet help as well, so the two Soviet plants are Bhilai and Bokaro.

Q8668.GeographyAsked in: SSC GD Constable · 16 Jan 2023, Shift 4Easy

What are the industrially developed urban centres usually surrounded by?

  1. A.agricultural urban hinterland
  2. B.agricultural rural hinterland
  3. C.coastal hinterland
  4. D.seaport hinterland
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Correct answer: B. agricultural rural hinterland

An industrial city does not stand alone: the country around it supplies food for its workers, agricultural raw material such as cotton, cane, oilseed and jute for its mills, and labour from the villages, while the city in turn sells manufactured goods and services back to that countryside.

Q8669.GeographyAsked in: SSC GD Constable · 24 Jan 2023, Shift 2Medium

What is a group of industries that tend to come together to make use of the advantages offered by the urban centres known as?

  1. A.rural economies
  2. B.amalgamation economies
  3. C.urban economies
  4. D.agglomeration economies
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Correct answer: D. agglomeration economies

When industries gather at one urban centre, each of them can use the roads, railways, power lines, water supply, banks, insurance offices, skilled workers, component suppliers and repair workshops that the others have brought into being, and the saving in cost that follows from this sharing is called an agglomeration…

Q8670.GeographyAsked in: Uttar Pradesh · UPPSC Civil Services GS Official PaperHard

Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R):

Assertion (A): Ahmedabad is the largest centre of the cotton textile industry in India.
Reason (R): Ahmedabad is located in the major cotton-growing region of India, so it has no problem with raw materials.

Select the correct answer from 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

Ahmedabad is a very large cotton textile centre and is called the Manchester of India, but it is not the largest in the country; that place belongs to Mumbai, the old Cottonopolis, which grew first because of its port, its mills and its capital, and Maharashtra remains ahead of Gujarat…