SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

Its Uniform Civil Code was passed by the state assembly in 2024 and brought into force in January 2025, making Uttarakhand the first state to legislate a single set of rules on marriage, divorce, succession and related matters for its residents, with the exemption for the Scheduled Tribes that the…

That minimum is the key to the question: Article 243D, inserted by the 73rd Amendment, reserves not less than one-third of the seats in every panchayat and one-third of the offices of chairperson for women, and leaves the states free to give more.

The correct answer is A, Madhya Pradesh, which enacted its Public Services Guarantee Act in 2010, the first law in India to make the delivery of listed services, such as a copy of a land record, a ration card or a birth certificate, a legal right within a notified number…

She had been a freedom fighter and a member of the Constituent Assembly before entering state politics.

Ratification by the legislatures of at least half the states is required under Article 368(2) for amendments that touch the federal structure, and the Bill became the Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016, after which the Goods and Services Tax came into force on 1 July 2017.

The achievement is a standard static GK line about the state, and it is usually paired with a second first: Haryana was also the first state to replace sales tax with Value Added Tax, on 1 April 2003, ahead of the wider rollout of VAT from 2005.

The campaign had first been tested in Ernakulam, which became the first fully literate district in the country in 1990, and the model was later used by the National Literacy Mission elsewhere.

The policy won Sikkim the Future Policy Gold Award given by the Food and Agriculture Organization in 2018. The same small Himalayan state holds two more firsts worth remembering: it banned plastic carry bags as early as 1998, and it was the first state declared free of open defecation.

The correct answer is B, Tamil Nadu, which passed a state Right to Information Act in 1997, the first such law in the country and eight years ahead of the central Right to Information Act of 2005.

The idea came from the First Administrative Reforms Commission, which recommended a Lokpal at the Centre and a Lokayukta in the states to look into complaints of corruption and maladministration against public functionaries.

Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated the Panchayati Raj system at Nagaur on 2 October 1959, putting into practice the three-tier design recommended by the Balwant Rai Mehta Committee of 1957: the gram panchayat at the village level, the panchayat samiti at the block level and the zila parishad at the district level.

It was created as Andhra State on 1 October 1953 by separating the Telugu-speaking districts of the old Madras State.

The 2011 Census recorded a literacy rate of 86.05 per cent for Chandigarh, well above the national figure of about 73 per cent, which is to be expected of a territory that is almost entirely urban and has a large service and education sector.

The territory returns a single member to the Lok Sabha from the Chandigarh constituency.

The Open Hand, a large metal sculpture mounted so that it turns with the wind, stands in the Capitol Complex and was conceived by the architect as a sign of a hand open to give and open to receive, that is, open to new ideas.

It was formed by damming the Sukhna Choe, a seasonal stream descending from the Shivalik hills, as part of the city plan, and it is fed by rain rather than by a perennial river.

The city's sectors are numbered in sequence, but the number thirteen was deliberately left out because it is widely regarded as unlucky, so the numbering jumps from Sector 12 to Sector 14.

It is a common High Court exercising jurisdiction over the states of Punjab and Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh, and its building in the Capitol Complex is one of Le Corbusier's three monumental works there.

Chandi Mandir, a temple of the goddess Chandi, a form of Durga, stands near the city in what is now the Panchkula district of Haryana.

A road inspector in the public works department, he began collecting discarded stones, broken crockery, bangles, tiles and electrical waste in the 1950s and built a secret garden of sculptures on land that was officially a forest buffer.