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Statutory Body Reserve Bank of India
Asked 64 times across 7 UPSC exams over 46 years (1980–2026), peaking in 2018.
Key insights
- Most tested in CSE — 49 of 64 PYQs
- Most asked in 2018
- Recurs across 27 years (1980–2026)
How it travelled across exams
First appearance in each exam — the same idea, reframed.
CSE 1980 → CDS 2015 → CAPF 2018 → LDCE 2023 → NDA 2023 → EPFO 2023 → ESE 2024
How the concept evolved
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Rising — more than half its appearances (38 of 64) are since 2016.
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Sample questions
You've seen the pattern — here are a few of the actual PYQs.
CSE2026
Which one of the following correctly represents the three key sub-indices of the Financial Inclusion Index (FI-Index) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?
- A Credit access, Insurance depth, and Pension coverage
- B Banking access, GDP contribution, and Financial literacy
- C Access, Usage, and Quality ✓
- D Access, Affordability, and Transparency
✓ Correct answer: (C)
Economy › Money/Banking/Finance
CSE2026
With reference to different Committees in India, consider the following details
- R.N. Malhotra Committee - Comprehensive reforms of Insurance sector - IRDAI
- L.C. Gupta Committee - Roadmap for the introduction of derivatives trading - SEBI
- Urjit R. Patel Committee - Roadmap for reforming bank lending to the Housing sector - RBI
- Y.H. Malegam Committee - Roadmap for reforms in Microfinance sector - RBI. In
which of the above rows are all the details correctly matched?
- A 2 only
- B 2 and 3
- C 1, 3 and 4
- D 2 and 4 ✓
✓ Correct answer: (D)
Economy › Money/Banking/Finance
CSE2026
Consider the following statements about the Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) in India
- NBFCs cannot accept demand deposits
- All the NBFCs operating in India have to be registered with the RBI
- NBFCs form part of the payment and settlement system and can issue cheque drawn on itself
- Deposit insurance facility of Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) is not available to the depositors of deposit taking NBFCs
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- A 1 and 4 ✓
- B 1, 2 and 3
- C 4 only
- D 2, 3 and 4
✓ Correct answer: (A)
Economy › Money/Banking/Finance
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