Static GK decides most of the General Awareness score in SSC exams. The CGL, CHSL and CPO notices describe it in almost the same words: questions on India and its neighbouring countries in History, Culture, Geography, the Economic Scene, General Policy and Scientific Research, and on everyday observation in its scientific aspect. The GD notice adds Sports, General Polity and the Indian Constitution, and the MTS notice lists Social Studies, General Science and Environmental Studies up to the 10th Standard. This page brings together GK24's GK notes and practice questions tagged for all five SSC exams. The notes follow a subject-wise syllabus, one topic per note in English and Hindi: Indian Polity, Indian History, Geography, Indian Economy, General Science, Environment and Ecology, Art and Culture, Computer, Sports, Awards and Honours, Books and Authors, Days and Dates, and Static GK. Each note is written as short facts and tables so that a topic can be revised in one sitting, and each ends with multiple-choice questions and explanations. The level is what changes between exams: read MTS and GD topics at Class 10 depth, CHSL at Class 12 depth, and CGL and CPO at graduate depth, where questions ask for the article number or the year rather than the broad idea. Start with Polity, History and Geography, which fill the most questions in past papers in GK24's reading, then move to the Economy and Science. After each note, solve its questions here and your exam's previous-year questions on its own page.
The Forest Rights Act, whose implementation was reviewed at the conference, was enacted in which year?
The full name of the law is the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, and the year that goes with it is 2006.
Read the full explanation →In which city was the Second Regional Review Conference on implementation of the Forest Rights Act held?
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs convened the second of its regional review conferences on the Forest Rights Act in the West Bengal capital, and officers of the Tribal Welfare, Revenue and Forest Departments of eight States took part, along with district Collectors from places where claims have piled up.
Read the full explanation →Chhath Puja, in which devotees stand in water and offer arghya to the setting and rising sun, is most closely associated with which state?
Chhath Puja is the great folk festival of Bihar, kept also in eastern Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand, in which women observe a long fast, stand in a river or pond and offer arghya first to the setting sun and then to the rising sun on the following morning, worshipping Surya…
Read the full explanation →The Kalbelia folk songs and dances, inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2010, belong to which state?
The Kalbelia are a community of Rajasthan traditionally associated with snake catching, and their women dance in long black skirts with a swirling, serpentine movement to the been and the khanjari.
Read the full explanation →The Godawan, or great Indian bustard, is the state bird of:
The great Indian bustard, called Godawan in Rajasthan, is a tall grassland bird of the Thar region and is the state bird of Rajasthan, whose state animal is the chinkara, state tree the khejri and state flower the rohida.
Read the full explanation →The red panda is the state animal of which state?
The red panda, a small reddish-brown mammal of the eastern Himalayan bamboo forests, is the state animal of Sikkim, which also has the blood pheasant as state bird, the rhododendron as state tree and the noble orchid as state flower.
Read the full explanation →The Hangul, or Kashmir stag, is the state animal of:
The hangul is a subspecies of the red deer found in the Kashmir valley, and its last substantial population survives in the Dachigam National Park near Srinagar, which is why hangul and Dachigam are always asked together.
Read the full explanation →Wangala, the hundred drums harvest festival of the Garo tribe, is celebrated in which state?
Wangala is the post-harvest thanksgiving festival of the Garo people of Meghalaya, offered to Misi Saljong the sun god, and it is called the hundred drums festival because long drums are beaten together in lines while dancers in feathered headgear move in formation.
Read the full explanation →Hojagiri, a folk dance performed by women balancing on an earthen pitcher with a bottle and a lamp on the head, belongs to which state?
Hojagiri is danced by the women of the Reang community of Tripura, who balance on the rim of an earthen pitcher and keep a bottle with a lit lamp steady on the head while moving only the lower half of the body, so the upper body stays almost still.
Read the full explanation →Bathukamma, the festival of flowers in which women build a floral mound and worship the goddess Gauri, is the state festival of:
Bathukamma is celebrated for nine days around Mahalaya Amavasya in the monsoon, when women of Telangana stack seasonal flowers in the shape of a temple tower, sing round it in a circle each evening, and on the last day set it afloat in a tank or stream.
Read the full explanation →The Hornbill Festival, held every December at Kisama and called the festival of festivals, belongs to which state?
The Hornbill Festival is held each December at the Naga Heritage Village at Kisama near Kohima, where all the major tribes of Nagaland put up their morungs and present their dances, songs, crafts, wrestling and food, which is why it is called the festival of festivals.
Read the full explanation →Cheraw, the bamboo dance in which dancers step between moving bamboo poles, is the folk dance of:
Cheraw is the best known dance of Mizoram, in which men sit facing each other and clap long bamboo staves together in rhythm while women dancers step in and out of the closing poles.
Read the full explanation →Sattriya, which was given the status of a classical dance in 2000, belongs to which state?
Sattriya grew in the sattras, the Vaishnava monasteries of Assam established in the devotional movement of Srimanta Sankardeva in the sixteenth century, where it was performed by celibate monks as part of worship.
Read the full explanation →The Classical dance form 'Kuchipudi' belongs to which Indian state?
Kuchipudi takes its name from the village of Kuchipudi in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, where the dance-drama tradition of the Bhagavatulu performers grew, and Siddhendra Yogi is remembered as the teacher who shaped it.
Read the full explanation →Which statement about the lead bank of a district is correct?
The lead bank is a coordinator, not a monopolist. It prepares the district credit plan, convenes the district forums through its Lead District Manager, brings banks and government departments to one table, watches for blocks and villages left without banking and reports progress to the state government and the Reserve…
Read the full explanation →The Potential Linked Credit Plan, which forms the base of a district's Annual Credit Plan, is prepared by:
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development prepares a Potential Linked Credit Plan for each district, estimating sector by sector how much credit the district can absorb, taking account of its soil, irrigation, cropping pattern, livestock, infrastructure and non-farm activity.
Read the full explanation →The High Level Committee appointed by the Reserve Bank to review the Lead Bank Scheme, which submitted its report in 2009, was headed by:
The Reserve Bank constituted a High Level Committee under its Deputy Governor Usha Thorat to review the Lead Bank Scheme after four decades, and the committee reported in 2009.
Read the full explanation →In 2004 the Reserve Bank dispensed with the restrictive provisions of the Service Area Approach, retaining them only for:
By tying every village to one branch, the Service Area Approach had removed the borrower's choice: a farmer served badly by his service area branch could not take his account elsewhere, and competition between branches disappeared.
Read the full explanation →Under the Service Area Approach, each rural and semi-urban branch was normally allotted about how many villages?
A branch's service area was drawn up of roughly fifteen to twenty-five villages, chosen on the twin tests of proximity and contiguity so that the cluster could actually be served and surveyed by the staff of one branch.
Read the full explanation →The Service Area Approach was introduced by the Reserve Bank of India with effect from:
The Service Area Approach took effect from April 1989 and carried the logic of the Lead Bank Scheme down to the individual branch.
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