All 23 Punjab Polity & Economy questions asked in PPSC exams between 2015 and 2026, grouped by subtopic, each with a worked solution. First 10 free.
4 of these 23 were set in more than one exam — the Commission reuses this topic, which is the argument for working through it rather than skimming it.
Free to read, with the worked answer and the exam each one came from. The book prints this topic in the order the Commission favours, so these are the ones to know first.
The Punjab Infrastructure Development Board (PIDB) is the state's nodal agency for infrastructure. It was set up under the Punjab Infrastructure (Development and Regulation) Act, 2002. It plans, funds and promotes infrastructure projects, including public-private-partnership projects. The Chief Minister chairs it. It also runs the Punjab Infrastructure Development Fund, financed by the infrastructure cess. The other three names are not existing bodies. They are distractors built around the same acronym.
Punjab Agricultural University was set up in 1962. Its main campus has always been at Ludhiana. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru formally opened it on 8 July 1963, when Pratap Singh Kairon was Chief Minister. P. N. Thapar was its first Vice-Chancellor. Palampur, now in Himachal Pradesh, housed only a regional campus.
The Rajkumari Amrit Kaur Coaching Scheme, run through the Department of Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes, Punjab, gives free coaching to SC/BC candidates for competitive examinations. It is named after Rajkumari Amrit Kaur of the Kapurthala royal family, a close associate of Gandhi who became independent India's first Health Minister (1947–57) and founded AIIMS. Amrita Sher-Gil was a painter and Sophia Duleep Singh a suffragette in Britain.
The Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology (CIPHET), an ICAR institute set up in 1989, is located at Ludhiana, Punjab, with a regional station at Abohar. It works on post-harvest technology, food processing and value addition. Ludhiana also hosts Punjab Agricultural University and GADVASU.
The Punjab Agro Foodgrains Corporation (PAFC) is a unit of Punjab Agro Industries Corporation. It was made the nodal agency in 2002-03 for the state's contract-farming programme. The aim was to move farmers from wheat and paddy to hyola, barley, maize, moong, sunflower and other crops. Option (d) is a distractor — PAFC is a corporation, not a commission.
The Atta Dal Scheme was launched by the Punjab Government on 15 August 2007 to give wheat flour (atta) and pulses (dal) at very low prices to poor families holding blue ration cards.
Punjab issues a blue ration card to poor families covered under the Atta Dal Scheme, which gives them wheat flour and pulses at very low prices. The Shagun Scheme gives marriage money, and Antyodaya Anna Yojana is a Central scheme with its own card.
GADVASU is at Ludhiana; it was carved out of Punjab Agricultural University in 2005 and is named after the second Sikh Guru, Guru Angad Dev Ji.
Dr B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology is at Jalandhar; it started as a Regional Engineering College in 1987 and became an NIT in 2002. Chandigarh is a Union Territory, not a district of Punjab.
The Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA), set up with CIMMYT for wheat and maize research, has its Punjab centre at Ladhowal near Ludhiana. Its other centres are at Pusa (Bihar) and Jabalpur (MP).
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See the printed book →The Commission set 23 Punjab Polity & Economy questions across 22 papers between 2015–2026. That is the whole set, not a sample — every one of them is in the book, and the 10 most-asked are on this page free.
Yes. 4 of these 23 were set in more than one exam, which is why they are worth working rather than reading. Each question here carries a badge showing how many sittings asked it.
Here. Every question on this page is a solved MCQ: the four options as printed, the correct answer, and a worked explanation in plain English — not just a letter. The rest of the 23 are in the book, in the same form.
Switch to Attempt mode at the top of the questions. You get one question at a time and it is marked the moment you pick an option, with the reason underneath — the same way the exam feels, on your phone.
The questions are on screen rather than in a downloadable file, so they stay current and correct. The printed book has all 23 of these plus the rest of the Punjab GK section, and every buyer gets the whole thing online as well.
The exams behind these questions, most first. A paper here is a sitting: a question set in two papers of the same sitting counts once.
| Exam | Year | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| District Welfare Officer | 2015 | 7 |
| Lecturer(Architecture,Production,E… | 2016 | 4 |
| Assistant Public Relation Officers | 2017 | 2 |
| Information and Public Relation Officer | 2017 | 2 |
| Seven Posts | 2016 | 2 |
| Accountant Grade-II (Group B) | 2026 | 1 |
| Assistant Electrical Inspector (Group-A) | 2024 | 1 |
| District Defence Services Welfare Officer | 2023 | 1 |
| Warehouse Manager (Group-B) in Punjab State Warehousing Corporation Under the De | 2023 | 1 |
| Accountants | 2022 | 1 |
| Junior Engineers (Civil) and 04 Posts of Junior Engi | 2021 | 1 |
| Assistant Corporation Engineer (Electrical) in Municipal Corporation | 2021 | 1 |