SSC GK Questions 2026

Bhimbetka lies in the Vindhya hills in Raisen district, not far from Bhopal, and its natural shelters carry paintings made over thousands of years, from hunting scenes of the Stone Age to later figures of horses and riders.

The temples built by the Chandela kings at Khajuraho in Chhatarpur district were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1986, the earliest of the three sites of Madhya Pradesh to be listed, and the Kandariya Mahadeva temple is the largest of the group.

The airport of Indore is named after Devi Ahilyabai Holkar, the Holkar queen who ruled from Maheshwar, and it handles more passengers than any other airport of the state, in keeping with Indore’s place as the commercial capital.

Itarsi, in Narmadapuram district, is where the Delhi to Chennai trunk line crosses the routes running east towards Jabalpur and west towards Khandwa and Mumbai, so a very large share of the long distance trains of central India pass through it and change direction, engine or crew there.

The West Central Railway, created in 2003 when the new railway zones were carved out, has its headquarters at Jabalpur and works through three divisions, Jabalpur, Bhopal and Kota, so Madhya Pradesh is the only state that holds both the zone office and one of its divisions in the same…

The scheme, begun in 2020, distributes napkins every month through anganwadi workers and self-help groups to women and adolescent girls of families below the poverty line, the aim being both health and school attendance.

The Chief Minister’s Window, opened in 2014, takes complaints from citizens at district offices and online, tracks them against a time limit and reports to the Chief Minister’s office, so it is the grievance channel of the state government.

The card works like the Kisan Credit Card but for livestock: the owner of an animal gets working capital on the strength of the animal, repayable in instalments at a low rate of interest, which suits a state whose Murrah buffalo is a brand of its own and whose milk…

The scheme allows a member of an Antyodaya family, that is a family with a yearly income below Rs 1.80 lakh, to travel a thousand kilometres free in a year in the buses of Haryana Roadways, the card being issued against the family’s Parivar Pehchan Patra and the journeys recorded…

The scheme, begun in 2016, registers unemployed young people who have passed the intermediate, graduated or taken a postgraduate degree, pays them a monthly allowance that rises with the qualification, and adds an honorarium for up to a hundred hours of work a month in a government or private office…

Under the Bhavantar Bharpai Yojana of 2018 the state fixes a protected rate for these vegetables and pays the grower the difference when the market price falls below it, because a vegetable cannot be stored like grain and its price crashes in a good year.

Chirayu Haryana, announced in 2022, gives the same cashless cover of Rs 5 lakh a family a year as Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, but to families of the state whose yearly income is below Rs 1.80 lakh, which brings in many households that the central list leaves…

The scheme, begun in 2020, pays an incentive for every acre on which a farmer gives up paddy for a crop that needs less water, and adds free seed and help with sowing, because the water table under the paddy belt of Kurukshetra, Kaithal and the neighbouring districts has fallen…

The Parivar Pehchan Patra gives each family of the state a family identity number with verified details of its members and its income, and pensions, scholarships, ration and scheme benefits are then delivered by reading that record.

Under the Mukhyamantri Parivar Samridhi Yojana, begun in 2019, a family whose yearly income is up to Rs 1.80 lakh and whose land is up to five acres receives Rs 6,000 a year, part of it paid directly and part put into pension and insurance cover for the members.

The national Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign was launched by the Prime Minister from Panipat on 22 January 2015, and Haryana was chosen for the launch because its child sex ratio was among the lowest in the country.

Although Katihar lies in Bihar, its division is one of the divisions of the Northeast Frontier Railway, the zone with its headquarters at Maligaon in Guwahati, because the lines there carry the traffic running towards north Bengal and the north east.

The East to West corridor, numbered 27 after the renumbering of the national highways, runs from Porbandar in Gujarat to Silchar in Assam, and its Bihar stretch passes through Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga and Purnia, opening up the Mithila and Seemanchal districts.

The bridge from Digha on the Patna side to Sonpur on the north bank is named after Jayaprakash Narayan, the leader of the movement of 1974 and a son of Saran district, and it carries both a railway line and a road, rail traffic having begun over it in 2016.

Gaya International Airport serves Bodh Gaya, the place of the Buddha’s enlightenment and the first place of pilgrimage for Buddhists everywhere, and it receives direct flights from Thailand, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and other Buddhist countries in the pilgrimage season, which is why it carries international status although it is a…