SSC CHSL 2023 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

NITI Aayog, the National Institution for Transforming India, was set up by a Cabinet resolution on 1 January 2015 and took the place of the Planning Commission, which had run since 1950.

An endemic species is one that occurs naturally in one particular area and nowhere else, and the Nicobar pigeon is the textbook Indian example, living in the forests of the Nicobar group of islands; the Andaman wild pig and the Narcondam hornbill are usually listed beside it.

The abacus of the Sarnath capital carries four animals, not a cow: an elephant, a horse, a bull and a lion, and in the usual reading the horse stands for the south while the bull stands for the west.

Aram Bagh stands in Agra in Uttar Pradesh, on the left bank of the Yamuna across from the Taj Mahal, and it is held to be the oldest Mughal garden in India.

The Green Revolution rested on high yielding variety seeds, usually shortened to HYV seeds, which gave far more grain per hectare than the older local varieties when used with assured irrigation, chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

Dzongkha is the national and official language of Bhutan, and it is written in the Tibetan script. The name itself means the language of the dzong, the fortress-monasteries from which Bhutan was governed.

Radiation carries heat as electromagnetic waves, so it needs no material medium and can travel through a vacuum. This is how the heat of the Sun crosses empty space to reach the Earth, and why you feel warmth in front of a fire without touching it.

The Wild Ass Sanctuary lies in the Little Rann of Kachchh in Gujarat and is the last home of the Indian wild ass, locally called the khur, a Schedule I animal that grazes on the raised patches of grass known as bets in the salt desert.

When a new document is created in MS Word, the program offers a blank document as well as a gallery of templates for letters, resumes and reports, so statement one is correct.

A shortage of iodine makes the thyroid gland in the neck swell, a condition called goitre. The thyroid needs iodine to make the hormone thyroxine, and when iodine is short the gland grows larger to trap whatever little is available, so the neck looks visibly swollen.

The Kyoto Protocol set its target on a basket of six greenhouse gases, to be cut by an average of 5.2 per cent below 1990 levels.

Statement I is right, because a government security, or G-Sec, is a tradeable debt instrument issued by the central government or by a state government and can be bought and sold in the secondary market before it matures.

NABARD started a pilot project on Joint Liability Groups in 2004-05 so that small, marginal and tenant farmers, who often till land they do not own, could borrow without the land papers a bank usually demands.

Vijayalaya founded the line known as the Imperial Cholas around 850 CE by taking Thanjavur from the Muttaraiyar chiefs, who held it as feudatories of the Pallavas.

Cornwallis, Governor General from 1786 to 1793, introduced the Permanent Settlement in Bengal, Bihar and Odisha in 1793, with John Shore doing much of the groundwork.

SEBI is the regulator of the securities market, and protecting the interests of investors is the first duty written into its founding law.

E-Shakti was launched by NABARD in 2015 to put the accounts and records of self-help groups on a digital platform.

Loess is a deposit of fine silt and dust carried by the wind and dropped far from where it was picked up, so it is the classic wind made or aeolian soil.

Palm, coconut, keora and agar are the trees named for India's mangrove or tidal forests, which grow where the land meets the sea in deltas, estuaries and creeks.

Raja Nand Kumar, a Brahmin revenue officer of Bengal, accused Warren Hastings of taking bribes. Soon afterwards Nand Kumar himself was charged with forgery, tried by the Supreme Court at Calcutta under Chief Justice Elijah Impey and hanged in 1775.