IBPS GK Questions 2026

Launched in 2020, Mera Pani Meri Virasat offers an incentive per acre to farmers in blocks where groundwater has fallen sharply if they replace water-hungry paddy with crops such as maize, pulses, cotton or vegetables, or take up agroforestry; the aim is crop diversification to save the aquifer.

The company's long-standing Haryana plants are at Gurugram and at Manesar, which lies on the Delhi-Jaipur highway in the same district and grew into an industrial model township around the car plant and its component suppliers, making the Gurugram-Manesar belt the centre of India's passenger car making.

Haryana enacted its Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act in 2005, following the Twelfth Finance Commission's advice that states pass such laws to qualify for debt relief; the Act commits the state to keep its fiscal deficit within about 3 per cent of gross state domestic product, to eliminate the…

Article 293 allows a state to borrow within India on the security of its Consolidated Fund, within limits set by its legislature, and requires the consent of the Government of India for any further borrowing while a loan made by or guaranteed by the Centre is still outstanding, a clause…

After the legislature votes the demands for grants, an Appropriation Bill is introduced under Article 204 to authorise withdrawal from the Consolidated Fund of the State for the granted sums and for the charged expenditure, and no money may leave that fund without such an Act.

Article 202 requires the Governor to cause the Annual Financial Statement, the estimated receipts and expenditure of the state for a financial year, to be laid before the House or Houses of the legislature, and this statement is what is called the budget of Haryana.

The Panipat refinery, commissioned in 1998, is an Indian Oil refinery and is the only refinery in Haryana; a naphtha cracker and petrochemical complex were later built alongside it, which makes Panipat an energy and petrochemical centre as well as a textile town.

Panipat is called the city of weavers and is a national centre for handloom products such as blankets, carpets, durries and furnishings, much of it made from recycled yarn, and the trade grew after refugee weavers settled there following Partition.

Lying in the National Capital Region next to Delhi, Gurugram holds the state's largest concentration of information technology and business process management firms, corporate head offices, malls and high-value real estate, and it also has car manufacturing, so it yields the biggest share of the state's goods and services tax…

As in India as a whole, the services sector, which covers trade, transport, real estate, finance, information technology and public administration, contributes the largest share of Haryana's gross state value added, and the corporate and information technology economy of Gurugram is a large part of it.

Pithampur, in Dhar district next to Indore, is the largest industrial estate of the state and holds vehicle, auto component, pharmaceutical and engineering plants, along with a vehicle testing track; because of the concentration of automobile units it is often called the Detroit of Madhya Pradesh.

Nepanagar, a planned industrial township in Burhanpur district, grew around the newsprint mill set up there in the years around independence, which used bamboo from the Satpura forests as its raw material; the town is named after the National Newsprint and Paper Mills.

The Madhya Pradesh Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, passed in the middle of the 2000s on the pattern of the central Act of 2003 and the advice of the Twelfth Finance Commission, requires the state to keep its fiscal deficit within three per cent of the gross state domestic…

Chhattisgarh was created on 1 November 2000 under the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000. Until then Madhya Pradesh was the largest state of India by area; after the separation Rajasthan became the largest and Madhya Pradesh the second largest.

The solar park at Gurh in Rewa district, of 750 megawatt capacity, was the first renewable project in the country to supply an institutional buyer outside its own state, and a part of its power goes to the Delhi Metro, the rest to the distribution companies of Madhya Pradesh.

The Vindhyachal super thermal power station of NTPC stands at Vindhyanagar in Singrauli district, close to the coalfields that feed it, and it is among the largest thermal power plants in the country by installed capacity.

The Bank Note Press at Dewas prints currency notes, and the Security Paper Mill at Hoshangabad, now Narmadapuram, makes the special paper used for notes and other security documents, so two links of the currency chain lie in Madhya Pradesh.

The Malanjkhand copper project of Hindustan Copper Limited, in Balaghat district on the eastern edge of the state, works the largest copper ore deposit in the country, and its concentrate feeds smelters outside the state.

The black soil of the Malwa plateau and the Narmada valley suits soyabean, and the districts around Indore, Ujjain, Dewas and Sehore grow so much of it that the state is called the soya state and Indore became the centre of the soyabean oil and cake trade.

The Majhgawan pipe near Panna is the only working diamond mine in the country, which makes Madhya Pradesh India’s sole diamond-producing state, and the stones are sold through the government diamond office at Panna.