SSC GK Questions 2026

Section 7 of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 permits the central or a state government to require proof of an Aadhaar number, or of having applied for one, for any subsidy, benefit or service whose expenditure is met from the Consolidated…

A subsidy neither creates an asset for the government nor reduces any liability, so in the budget it is classified as revenue expenditure, and a large subsidy bill therefore widens the revenue deficit as well as the fiscal deficit.

Under this scheme a fixed subsidy is announced for each nutrient contained in a phosphatic or potassic fertiliser, and the manufacturer is free to fix the selling price, the aim being to encourage a balanced use of nutrients in the soil.

The Act divides the covered population into priority households, who receive five kilograms of grain for each member every month, and Antyodaya Anna Yojana households, which are the poorest and receive thirty-five kilograms for the whole household every month.

The budget documents group food, fertiliser and petroleum together as the major subsidies, because they are the three largest explicit subsidy payments made by the central government.

PAHAL, the direct benefit transfer scheme for cooking gas, was begun in fifty-four districts in November 2014 and extended to the whole country from 1 January 2015; the consumer buys the cylinder at the market price and the subsidy is credited to his bank account, and the Give It Up…

The Economic Survey of 2014-15 used the expression JAM number trinity for these three, because together they make it possible to send money to a poor household without a middleman: the Jan Dhan account receives the payment, the Aadhaar number identifies the beneficiary and removes duplicate names, and the mobile…

Direct Benefit Transfer began on that date in a small group of districts and for a limited number of schemes, and was then extended across the country and to hundreds of central schemes, paying scholarships, pensions, wages and subsidies into the beneficiary's own bank account.

The Jhelum rises from the spring at Verinag inside the Kashmir valley, so its source lies within India, unlike the other rivers offered.

The treaty signed on 12 December 1996 for a period of thirty years fixes the sharing of the dry-season flow of the Ganga at the Farakka Barrage in West Bengal between the first of January and the thirty-first of May, in periods of ten days, and provides for a joint…

The Beas, which rises at Beas Kund near the Rohtang Pass, joins the Sutlej at Harike in the Tarn Taran district of Punjab, where a barrage has been built; the Indira Gandhi Canal, which carries water into the desert of Rajasthan, takes off from this barrage, and the wetland there…

The Jhelum rises from the spring at Verinag at the foot of the Pir Panjal in the south-east of the Kashmir valley, flows north-west past Srinagar, passes through the Wular Lake, the largest freshwater lake of the valley, and then enters Pakistan.

The Sutlej rises in the Rakshastal area of Tibet, near Lake Mansarovar, and enters India through the Shipki La pass in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, after which it flows past the Bhakra dam into the plains of Punjab.

The two head streams of the Chenab, the Chandra and the Bhaga, rise on either side of the Baralacha La in the Lahaul area of Himachal Pradesh and meet at Tandi, below which the united stream is called the Chandrabhaga or Chenab and flows on into Jammu and Kashmir.

The Kishanganga, known as the Neelum in Pakistan, is a tributary of the Jhelum, and the Court of Arbitration at The Hague held in 2013 that India could divert its water for generating power at the Kishanganga project while maintaining a minimum flow downstream.

When the Permanent Indus Commission could not settle Pakistan's objections to the design of the Baglihar dam, the matter was referred to a Neutral Expert, the Swiss engineer Raymond Lafitte, appointed with the help of the World Bank, who gave his determination in 2007 and allowed the project with changes…

The Bank brought India and Pakistan to the table in 1952, proposed the division of the rivers into eastern and western groups, helped to arrange the finance for Pakistan's replacement canals, and signed the treaty for the limited purposes in which it has a role, such as helping to appoint…

These are the three eastern rivers of the Indus system, and the treaty gives their waters to India for unrestricted use, which is why the Bhakra dam on the Sutlej, the Pong dam on the Beas and the Ranjit Sagar dam on the Ravi could be built.

The Indus Waters Treaty was signed at Karachi on 19 September 1960 by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India and President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan, after nine years of negotiation begun in 1952 through the good offices of the World Bank, which signed the treaty as a third party.

In every real machine some of the work put in is used in overcoming friction between the moving parts and in lifting the parts of the machine itself, and that work leaves the system as heat and sound, so the work delivered to the load is always less than the…