UPSC GK Questions 2026

Parliament passed the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act in December 2013; it received the assent of the President on 1 January 2014 and came into force on 16 January 2014.

The correct answer is B, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, who founded the Servants of India Society at Poona in 1905 to train men who would devote their lives to public service on small salaries, and who was the moderate leader Gandhi acknowledged as his political guru.

He became the youngest president of the Indian National Congress in 1923 and later the first Education Minister of independent India, whose birthday is observed as National Education Day.

The correct answer is B, Sarojini Naidu, who presided over the Kanpur session of 1925 and so became the first Indian woman to hold the office; she is called the Nightingale of India for her poetry and later became the first woman Governor of a province in independent India.

The correct answer is B, Subhas Chandra Bose, who used the line while addressing the soldiers of the Indian National Army, and whose other calls, Dilli Chalo and Jai Hind, come from the same years in the east.

The correct answer is A, the Khudai Khidmatgar, the Servants of God, a non-violent volunteer force of the North-West Frontier Province whose members wore red shirts and joined the civil disobedience movement in large numbers.

He was thrice president of the Indian National Congress, the first Indian to be elected to the British House of Commons, and the author of Poverty and Un-British Rule in India, in which he worked out the drain of wealth from India to Britain.

The peasants of Bardoli taluka in Surat district refused to pay a steep increase in land revenue, Vallabhbhai Patel organised the resistance, the government was forced to appoint an inquiry and roll back most of the increase, and the women of Bardoli gave him the title Sardar.

The correct answer is A, Chittaranjan Das, the Bengal leader who gave up a large legal practice for the non-cooperation movement, defended the Alipore bomb case accused, and founded the Swaraj Party with Motilal Nehru in 1923 to contest the legislatures from within.

The correct answer is B, Valentine Chirol, a British journalist of The Times who used the phrase for Tilak in his book on Indian unrest, holding his writings responsible for turning the people against the government; Tilak sued him for defamation and lost, and the title stuck as a mark…

The correct answer is B, Subhas Chandra Bose, who called Gandhi the Father of the Nation in a radio broadcast in 1944, asking for his blessings for the fight the Indian National Army was carrying on from the east.

He launched the Marathi fortnightly Mooknayak, meaning leader of the voiceless, in January 1920 with help from Shahu Maharaj of Kolhapur, and used it to argue the case of the depressed classes; Bahishkrit Bharat, Janata and Prabuddha Bharat followed.

Muhammad Yunus began lending very small sums to poor women in groups, without collateral, and the experiment became the Grameen Bank; he and the bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, and the model was studied by every country that later took up microfinance.

The correct answer is A, the Ministry of Rural Development, which runs the mission to organise poor rural households, mainly women, into self-help groups, give each group a revolving fund and a community investment fund, federate the groups at village and cluster level and arrange bank credit with interest subvention.

Kudumbashree, which means prosperity of the family, was launched in 1998 as a poverty eradication and women's empowerment mission of the State government working through neighbourhood groups, area development societies and community development societies, and it is among the largest women's networks in the country.

The correct answer is B, Verghese Kurien, who built the dairy cooperative of Kaira district at Anand in Gujarat, known by the brand name Amul, and then carried the Anand pattern across the country through the National Dairy Development Board, whose Operation Flood began in 1970 and made India the…

The size is deliberate: large enough for the pooled savings to be useful and for the group to stand behind each loan, and small enough for every member to attend a weekly meeting, know every other member and keep the accounts without outside help.

NABARD began the programme as a pilot, linking a few hundred self-help groups to banks so that a group with a record of regular saving and internal lending could borrow as a single account, and it has grown into the largest microfinance programme in the world measured by households reached.

The correct answer is C, the Primary Agricultural Credit Society, the body of farmer members in a village or a group of villages that lends directly to the cultivator for seed, fertiliser and other short-term needs.

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development began work on 12 July 1982 on the recommendation of the Committee to Review Arrangements for Institutional Credit for Agriculture and Rural Development, chaired by B. Sivaraman, and it has its head office at Mumbai.