UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Sukanya Samriddhi was opened in 2015 as part of the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign: a guardian may open an account in the name of a girl child below the age of ten at a post office or a bank, deposit a small sum every year, and draw the maturity…

It places on the State the duty to raise the level of nutrition and the standard of living of its people and to improve public health, and a health assurance scheme such as Ayushman Bharat, which gives a cover of five lakh rupees a family a year for hospital treatment…

The Atal Pension Yojana, launched in 2015 and administered by the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority, is open to a bank account holder between 18 and 40 years of age, who contributes until the age of 60 and then draws a guaranteed monthly pension of between one thousand and…

The Swachh Bharat Mission was launched on 2 October 2014, and its rural wing completed the first phase of toilet building with the declaration of open defecation free villages in 2019.

In 1989 the National Rural Employment Programme of 1980 and the Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme of 1983 were brought together into a single wage employment programme named the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana, which was run through the panchayats and remained the main rural employment programme of the early 1990s. Option…

Under the Regional Connectivity Scheme called UDAN, which stands for Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik and was launched in 2016, the fare on a subsidised seat is capped at about 2,500 rupees for an hour of flight on a fixed-wing aircraft, and the difference between that fare and the cost…

It was opened in 1989 to take the container traffic that the old Mumbai docks could not handle and it carries the largest share of India's container trade, with the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor built to feed it.

The correct answer is B, Kolkata, where the first underground metro service in India opened in 1984 between Esplanade and Bhowanipore on the north to south line, and the Metro Railway of Kolkata is the only metro system that is run as a zone of the Indian Railways.

The correct answer is C, 1.676 metres, the Indian broad gauge, which carries almost all the traffic of the network and is the gauge to which the older lines have been converted under Project Unigauge.

The Golden Quadrilateral, the first phase of the National Highways Development Project, is a 5,846 kilometre ring of four and six lane highways joining the four metropolitan cities, and its purpose was to cut the time and cost of moving goods between the ports and the interior.

The correct answer is A, Visakhapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh, a land-locked natural harbour sheltered by the Dolphin's Nose headland and the deepest of India's major ports, which is why it handles iron ore, crude oil and coal in large ships and houses a major naval base.

The correct answer is C, the Ganga, Bhagirathi and Hooghly, from Haldia in West Bengal to Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh, about 1,620 kilometres, declared the first national waterway in 1986 and being deepened under the Jal Marg Vikas Project with terminals at Varanasi, Sahibganj and Haldia.

The correct answer is B, Gorakhpur, in eastern Uttar Pradesh, which is the headquarters of the North Eastern Railway and has one of the longest railway platforms in the country.

Because the river silts up, the port needs continuous dredging and large ships are handled at the Haldia dock complex downstream.

The correct answer is C, NH-44, which runs from Srinagar to Kanyakumari over about 3,745 kilometres through Jammu, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Madurai, and was formed by merging several older highways at the time of renumbering.

The train ran on 16 April 1853 over about 34 kilometres, pulled by three locomotives named Sahib, Sindh and Sultan, and the day is counted as the birth of the Indian Railways.

It is formed from the roots of the lower spine, passes through the buttock and runs down the back of the thigh to the leg and foot, and its compression by a slipped disc causes the pain called sciatica.

An injury here is fatal because these actions cannot be done at will.

It quickens the heartbeat, raises the blood pressure, widens the air passages, sends more blood to the muscles and releases glucose from the liver, so that the body is ready to fight or to run.

The cranial nerves arise from the brain and serve the head and neck, among them the optic nerve of sight, the auditory nerve of hearing, the olfactory nerve of smell and the vagus, which is the longest cranial nerve and reaches down to the heart, lungs and stomach.