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.
In which year was the cheetah officially declared extinct in India?
The cheetah is the only large mammal India is known to have lost in historical times, and the government declared it extinct in the country in 1952, a few years after the last wild Asiatic cheetahs were shot.
Read the full explanation →Under Project Cheetah, the cheetahs brought from Africa were first released in which protected area?
Kuno was chosen for its open grassland and scrub, the habitat a cheetah hunts in, and for its prey base of chital and chinkara.
Read the full explanation →Which body is statutorily responsible for implementing Project Tiger?
It was created by the amendment of the Wild Life (Protection) Act in 2006, which gave Project Tiger a statutory footing, and it approves tiger conservation plans, notifies core and buffer areas with the states and conducts the national tiger estimation.
Read the full explanation →Project Tiger was launched in India in which year?
Project Tiger began on 1 April 1973 with a small group of reserves, Jim Corbett among the first, and introduced the idea of a strictly protected core area with a buffer zone of regulated use around it.
Read the full explanation →A compendium on Perspectives in Sustainable Transport launched at the conclave belongs to which grouping?
The inaugural session saw the launch of a BRICS Compendium on Perspectives in Sustainable Transport, which gathers approaches to sustainability in the transport sector and gives the conclave an international dimension alongside its Centre-state agenda.
Read the full explanation →Where was Chintan Shivir 2026 inaugurated?
The venue is worth remembering in full, because questions are set on the district as readily as on the state, and Ekta Nagar is the settlement beside the Statue of Unity that now hosts a steady stream of national conferences.
Read the full explanation →What is the motto under which Chintan Shivir 2026 is being held?
The motto is not decorative: one of the thematic sessions is devoted to PM GatiShakti and integrated infrastructure planning, so the slogan and the agenda match.
Read the full explanation →Who inaugurated Chintan Shivir 2026, the national conclave on highway infrastructure?
The correct answer is Nitin Gadkari, the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, who inaugurated the conclave at Tent City 2 near the Statue of Unity at Ekta Nagar in the Narmada district of Gujarat.
Read the full explanation →The rights of forest-dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers over land and forest produce were recognised by which law?
Its full name is the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, and it recognises individual rights over land that such families were cultivating, community rights over grazing grounds and water bodies, and rights over minor forest produce, while making the gram sabha the authority…
Read the full explanation →In the classification used by the Forest Survey of India, a forest with canopy density above seventy per cent is called which of the following?
The Forest Survey of India divides forest cover by the proportion of ground shaded by the tree canopy.
Read the full explanation →The headquarters of the Forest Survey of India is located at which place?
The Forest Survey of India, set up in 1981, has its headquarters at Dehradun in Uttarakhand, the city that is also home to the Forest Research Institute and the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, which makes Dehradun the centre of forestry work in the country.
Read the full explanation →The experiment at Arabari, which led to the national policy of Joint Forest Management, was carried out in which state?
In the early 1970s, in the Arabari range of the Midnapore district of West Bengal, foresters stopped treating villagers as encroachers and instead gave them a share in the protection and in the produce of a degraded sal forest; the forest recovered remarkably, and the experiment became the model for…
Read the full explanation →According to the National Forest Policy, what proportion of India's geographical area should be under forest or tree cover?
The National Forest Policy of 1952 laid down that about thirty-three per cent of the country's geographical area should carry forest or tree cover, and it broke that national figure into about sixty per cent for the hill and mountain regions, where slopes must be held against erosion and landslides…
Read the full explanation →The Appiko movement for the protection of forests was led by whom?
The Appiko movement started in 1983 in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, in the Western Ghats, where villagers walked into the forest and hugged trees marked for felling by contractors; Panduranga Hegde organised it after studying the Chipko movement of the Himalaya.
Read the full explanation →Van Mahotsav, the national tree planting festival begun in 1950, is observed in which month?
Van Mahotsav is observed in the first week of July, which is chosen because the monsoon has arrived over most of the country by then and a newly planted sapling has the best chance of surviving.
Read the full explanation →The Chipko movement began in 1973 in a district of which present-day state?
The movement began in 1973 in the Chamoli district of the Garhwal Himalaya, which was then part of Uttar Pradesh and has been in the new State of Uttarakhand since 2000.
Read the full explanation →Which Indian state has the largest area under forest cover?
Successive assessments by the Forest Survey of India have placed Madhya Pradesh first among the States in the absolute area under forest cover, a position it owes to its very large size and to the extensive teak and sal forests of the Satpura, Vindhya and Baghelkhand tracts.
Read the full explanation →Which sect is known for protecting the green trees?
The Bishnoi community of western Rajasthan follows the twenty-nine tenets laid down by Guru Jambheshwar in the fifteenth century, several of which forbid the felling of green trees and the killing of animals, and it is for this reason that khejri groves and herds of blackbuck survive in the desert…
Read the full explanation →Forest Conservation Act was enacted in which year?
The Forest (Conservation) Act was passed in 1980 to stop the steady loss of forest land to mining, roads, dams and townships.
Read the full explanation →Which organisation works with the Environment Ministry and the Rajasthan Forest Department on the Bustard Recovery Programme?
The Bustard Recovery Programme is a joint effort of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the Rajasthan Forest Department and the Wildlife Institute of India, with technical collaboration from the International Fund for Houbara Conservation and funding from National CAMPA.
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