SSC GK Questions 2026

The PSLV is unusual in alternating propellants between its stages: the first and third stages burn solid propellant and the second and fourth burn liquid propellant.

On 18 July 1980 the four-stage, all-solid SLV-3 placed the small Rohini RS-1 satellite in a low earth orbit from Sriharikota, and India became the sixth nation able to launch its own satellite.

Chandrayaan-3 weighed close to 3,900 kg at lift-off, far beyond the reach of any lighter Indian rocket, so it flew on LVM3, the vehicle earlier named GSLV Mk III.

The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 took effect on 31 October 2019 and replaced the former state with two Union Territories.

All three came into being within a fortnight in November 2000: Chhattisgarh from Madhya Pradesh on 1 November, Uttarakhand, then named Uttaranchal, from Uttar Pradesh on 9 November, and Jharkhand from Bihar on 15 November.

Sikkim became the twenty-second state of the Indian Union on 16 May 1975 through the Constitution (Thirty-sixth Amendment) Act, 1975, which placed it in the First Schedule as a state and added Article 371F for special provisions relating to it.

It was formed on 2 June 2014 under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, out of the north-western districts of Andhra Pradesh, and Hyderabad was made the common capital of both states for a transitional period.

The reorganisation of 1956 had left a bilingual Bombay State with Marathi and Gujarati speakers together.

The States Reorganisation Commission was appointed in December 1953 with Fazl Ali as chairman, and it submitted its report in 1955.

It allows Parliament to form a new state by separation of territory, to unite two or more states, to increase or diminish the area of a state and to alter its boundaries or its name.

The Parliamentary Committee headed by Sardar Hukam Singh, then Speaker of the Lok Sabha, examined the demand for a Punjabi-speaking state and recommended the division of Punjab.

The Telugu-speaking Andhra State was carved out of the Madras province on 1 October 1953, the first time independent India accepted language as the ground for a new state, and in 1956 it was enlarged and renamed Andhra Pradesh.

Andhra State came into being on 1 October 1953 from the Telugu-speaking districts of the Madras province. The immediate cause was the death of Potti Sriramulu on 15 December 1952 after a fast unto death for a Telugu state, and the agitation that followed forced the Government's hand.

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development is a development financial institution set up in 1982.

The Reserve Bank has the sole right to issue currency notes in India, but the one rupee note and every coin are issued by the Government through the Ministry of Finance.

Short-term rural cooperative credit is built in three tiers: the State Cooperative Bank at the apex of the state, the District Central Cooperative Bank at the district level and the Primary Agricultural Credit Society in the village, where the farmer actually borrows.

Under the Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976 the issued capital of an RRB is shared in the proportion of 50 per cent by the Central Government, 35 per cent by the sponsor commercial bank and 15 per cent by the State Government concerned.

A payments bank is a differentiated bank licensed on the lines suggested by the Nachiket Mor Committee to carry payments and small savings to people the branch network had not reached.

A bank is placed in that Schedule once it has the prescribed paid-up capital and reserves and satisfies the Reserve Bank that its affairs are not conducted in a manner harmful to depositors.

The Reserve Bank is banker to banks: every scheduled bank keeps an account with it, holds its cash reserve ratio there, settles payments with other banks through those accounts and can borrow from it when short of funds.