General Awareness Questions for RBI Grade B 2017

Dear Readers,

This is the high time to pace up your preparations for Upcoming RBI Grade B. Subjects like Aptitude, Reasoning, and English are important for the preparation of your exams but the subject the really comes in your way as a big challenge is General Awareness. As you know General Awareness is the very important section in the RBI Grade B. So we are here to provide you very handy Quiz on General Awareness that will cover Current Affairs, Static Awareness, and Banking Awareness topics. Attempt the quiz with your best effort and try to score as much as you can.

Q1. The Centre has constituted National Board of Electric Mobility (NBEM) to promote electric mobility and manufacturing of electric vehicles and their components. The Board will be chaired by _____________.

(a) Shri Harish Bhagwat

(b) Shri Prakash Javedkar

(c) Shri Rajyavardhan Rathore

(d) Shri Girish Shankar

(e) Shri Nitin Gadkari

Q2. A national conference on Communicating India has organised in which of the following Indian cities that were inaugurated by Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore.

(a) Kolkata

(b) New Delhi

(c) Bengaluru

(d) Chennai

(e) Varanasi

Q3. Name the IPS officer who has been appointed as the first woman Director General of Police (DGP) of Gujarat.

(a) Vimala Roy

(b) Falguni Upadhyay

(c) Geetha Johri

(d) Urmila Vansh

(e) Veera Joshi

Q4. The Government of India has recently announced a fund of ____________ for the first express highway project in the northeast region which be developed along the Brahmaputra river in Assam.

(a) Rs 25,000 Crore

(b) Rs 30,000 Crore

(c) Rs 35,000 Crore

(d) Rs 40,000 Crore

(e) Rs 45,000 Crore

Q5. At present many public sector banks and one private sector bank are authorised to handle the Senior Citizens Savings Scheme (SCSS), 2004. Name the private sector bank, which is authorised to handle the Senior Citizens Savings Scheme (SCSS), 2004?

(a) ICICI Bank

(b) HDFC Bank

(c) Axis Bank

(d) Yes Bank

(e) Kotak Mahindra Bank

Q6. The Government of India has enacted the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMED) Act, 2006 in terms of which the definition of micro, small and medium enterprises. As under a micro enterprise is an enterprise where investment in plant and machinery does not exceed…………..?

(a) Rs. 100 lakh

(b) Rs. 15 lakh

(c) Rs. 25 lakh

(d) Rs. 50 lakh

(e) None of the given options is true

Q7. Commercial Paper (CP) is an unsecured money market instrument issued in the form of a promissory note. In which year Commercial Paper was introduced in India?

(a) 1975

(b) 1990

(c) 1985

(d) 1955

(e) 1980

Q8. English Language Day is celebrated on….?

(a) 31st July

(b) 10th December

(c) 05th June

(d) 23 April

(e) 03rd May

Q9. In which state Chandoli National Park is located-

(a) Bihar

(b) Maharashtra

(c) Jharkhand

(d) Odisha

(e) Assam

Q10. Amazon India has launched an initiative called ‘Amazon Classroom’, a virtual training program to help sellers in learning online shopping. Name the CEO of Amazon.

(a) Larry Page

(b) Jeff Bezos

(c) Tim Cook

(d) John S. Watson

(e) Jeremy Stoppelman

Q11. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had chaired the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Finance Ministers meeting in New Delhi. Name the country that has joined the SASEC program as its seventh member.

(a) Bangladesh

(b) Bhutan

(c) Myanmar

(d) Maldives

(e) Nepal

Q12. Name the Bank/Banks that sold Rs.1,800 crore Ballarpur Industries loans to Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Company.

(a) ICICI Bank

(b) HDFC Bank

(c) Axis Bank

(d) Both (a) and (c)

(e) Both (b) and (c)

Q13. The WTO’s dispute settlement set up a panel to resolve the dispute between ___________ and India over the imposition of safeguard import duty on iron and steel products.

(a) Japan

(b) Pakistan

(c) China

(d) Afghanistan

(e) Myanmar

Q14. The Total expenditure in Budget for 2017-18 has been placed at?

(a) Rs. 21.47 lakh crores

(b) Rs. 42.31 lakh crores

(c) Rs. 75.26 lakh crores

(d) Rs. 56.17 lakh crores

(e) Rs. 92.86 lakh crores

Q15. TEC, an acronym was announced by the Finance Minister marking the beginning of the annual budget for the next fiscal year. What is the full form of TEC?

(a) Transport, Energise, Comfort India

(b) Transfer, Energise, Clean India

(c) Transform, Essential, Clean India

(d) Transform, Energise, Capable India

(e) Transform, Energise, Clean India

General Awareness Questions for RBI Grade B 2017 (Solutions)