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Rajasthan GK Questions 2026

Static GK decides most of the score in RAS and CET. The RAS Prelims syllabus lists Indian History from ancient times to 2000, Geography of the World and India, the Indian Constitution, Political System and Governance, Economic Concepts and the Indian Economy, and Science and Technology. Beside each sits a Rajasthan head: the history, art, culture, literature, tradition and heritage of Rajasthan, the geography of Rajasthan, the political and administrative system of Rajasthan, and the economy of Rajasthan. The CET syllabus follows the same plan at a simpler level, with Public Health, Computer Knowledge, General Hindi and General English added. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for the national part, written as short facts and tables in English and Hindi: Polity articles and constitutional bodies, the freedom struggle, rivers, soils, climate and minerals of India, budget and banking terms, and school-level science. GK24 does not have a separate Rajasthan GK section. Prepare Rajasthan's dynasties, Praja Mandal movements, forts, paintings, folk deities, fairs, districts, rivers, minerals and schemes from state sources, and use RPSC and RSSB question papers to see how they are asked. Read a note, then test yourself with the quiz and previous-year questions on this site.

Rajasthan GK Questions with Answers

Q443.Environment & EcologyHard

The National Water Mission is one of the eight missions under which of the following?

  1. A.The National Action Plan on Climate Change
  2. B.The National Water Policy, 2012
  3. C.The Namami Gange Programme
  4. D.The National Rural Drinking Water Programme
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Correct answer: A. The National Action Plan on Climate Change

The plan, released in 2008, set up eight national missions, among them the National Solar Mission, the National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency, the National Water Mission, the National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem, the National Mission for a Green India, the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture, the National…

Q446.Environment & EcologyMedium

The Ministry of Jal Shakti was formed in 2019 by merging which two ministries?

  1. A.Agriculture, and Rural Development
  2. B.Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, and Drinking Water and Sanitation
  3. C.Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and Earth Sciences
  4. D.Housing and Urban Affairs, and Panchayati Raj
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Correct answer: B. Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, and Drinking Water and Sanitation

In 2019 the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation was merged with the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation to create a single Ministry of Jal Shakti, so that irrigation, river basins, groundwater, drinking water supply and sanitation would be handled by one ministry.

Q447.Environment & EcologyHard

The surangam, a horizontal tunnel driven into a hill to tap seepage water, is found mainly in

  1. A.The laterite country of Kasaragod in Kerala
  2. B.The Banni grassland of Kutch
  3. C.The Tapi basin of Maharashtra
  4. D.The Alwar district of Rajasthan
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Correct answer: A. The laterite country of Kasaragod in Kerala

A surangam is a tunnel about two metres high cut nearly level into the side of a laterite hill until it meets a seepage zone; the water that oozes out of the rock trickles along the floor of the tunnel and is collected in a pit outside, so the structure…

Q449.Environment & EcologyMedium

In the traditional ahar-pyne system of south Bihar, what is a pyne?

  1. A.An embanked reservoir that stores runoff
  2. B.A diversion channel that carries water from a river
  3. C.A covered underground drinking water tank
  4. D.A stepped well cut down to the water table
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Correct answer: B. A diversion channel that carries water from a river

In the old Magadh region of south Bihar the land slopes gently and the soil holds water poorly, so farmers cut long channels, the pynes, from the flood flow of rivers such as the Phalgu, Sakri and Morhar and led the water across the fields.

Q450.Environment & EcologyEasy

Bamboo drip irrigation, in which split bamboo pipes carry spring water to the fields, is a traditional practice of

  1. A.Meghalaya
  2. B.Kerala
  3. C.Ladakh
  4. D.Bihar
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Correct answer: A. Meghalaya

In the Khasi and Jaintia hills, spring and stream water on a hill slope is tapped and carried through a network of split bamboo pipes, channels and diversion sticks that step the flow down the slope and finally release it drop by drop at the root of each betel vine…

Q452.Environment & EcologyAsked in: Rajasthan · RSMSSB JE Mechanical (Degree) held on 13Easy

In Rajasthan, the tanka and khadin type is

  1. A.Of traditional water conservation techniques
  2. B.Of traditional war skills
  3. C.Of traditional folk dances
  4. D.Of traditional farming method
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Correct answer: A. Of traditional water conservation techniques

A tanka is a covered underground tank, usually sunk in a courtyard or beneath a house in western Rajasthan, into which rain falling on the paved courtyard or the roof is led through a filter and stored for drinking right through the dry months.

Q453.NationalEasy

Under which Act were the three persons arrested in these poppy straw cases?

  1. A.The Customs Act, 1962
  2. B.The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
  3. C.The Essential Commodities Act, 1955
  4. D.The Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002
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Correct answer: B. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985

Poppy straw is a narcotic substance covered by this law, so both the Neemuch case and the Mandsaur case were registered under its provisions and all three arrests were made under it.

Q454.NationalEasy

What was loaded over the poppy straw in the Mandsaur case to disguise the consignment?

  1. A.Bags of wheat
  2. B.Crates of fruit
  3. C.Bales of cotton
  4. D.Sacks of cement
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Correct answer: A. Bags of wheat

When the Tata truck with a Rajasthan registration number was stopped on the Gandhisagar-Bhanpura road on 9 October 2026 and taken to the CBN office at Garoth for a detailed search, officers found 3,280.72 kg of poppy straw underneath 100 bags of wheat that were being carried as cover cargo.