Indian States & UTs GK Questions with Answers – Page 3

The Mekhela Chador is a two-piece dress of Assamese women: the mekhela is the lower garment wrapped like a sarong and pleated at the front, and the chador is the upper cloth draped over the shoulder and tucked into the mekhela.

The Sixth Schedule, read with Article 244, lets the tribal areas of these four states run Autonomous District Councils with their own powers over land, forests, village administration, inheritance and customary law, such as the Bodoland Territorial Council in Assam and the Khasi Hills council in Meghalaya.

The Hornbill festival is held at Kisama near Kohima and opens on 1 December, the day Nagaland became a state in 1963; it brings the major Naga tribes together and is called the festival of festivals, and the hornbill of its name is the bird that appears in Naga headgear…

Majuli lies in the Brahmaputra in Assam, upstream of Jorhat, and is the largest river island; it is also the seat of the Vaishnavite satras founded in the tradition of Srimanta Sankardeva, and it was made a district of Assam, the first island district of the country.

Tripura juts into Bangladesh, which wraps around its north, west and south, so the state is joined to India only along its eastern side, where it meets Assam and Mizoram.

Article 371A was inserted when Nagaland was created and protects Naga customary law and practice, land and resources, so that an Act of Parliament on these matters applies to the state only if its Assembly so decides, and it gives the Governor a special responsibility for law and order.

Keibul Lamjao lies on the southern part of Loktak Lake near Imphal and floats on phumdis, the thick mats of soil and rotting plant matter that drift on the water.

Assam lies at the heart of the region and touches Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya and West Bengal, that is seven Indian states, besides the foreign neighbours Bhutan and Bangladesh.

The Council was set up by the North Eastern Council Act, 1971, started functioning in 1972 as the planning and advisory body for the region, and has had its secretariat at Shillong ever since; it works under the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region.

The corridor runs through the northern districts of West Bengal around the town of Siliguri and is only about twenty kilometres wide at its narrowest, which is why it is nicknamed the Chicken's Neck.

Both had been Union Territories since 1972, Arunachal Pradesh after the North East Frontier Agency was renamed and Mizoram after the Mizo hills were separated from Assam, and both were raised to statehood on the same day in February 1987.

The Seven Sisters are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura, the seven states that were carved out of the old Assam province and its Union Territories between 1963 and 1987.

The three language formula, recommended by the Kothari Commission and adopted in the National Policy on Education, places the mother tongue or the regional language first, Hindi second and English third in Hindi-speaking states, while non-Hindi states teach the regional language, Hindi and English; in practice some states substitute another…

The movement forced the government to appoint the States Reorganisation Commission under Fazl Ali, whose report of 1955 led to the States Reorganisation Act of 1956 and to a map drawn largely along language lines.

Inserted by the Seventh Amendment Act of 1956, it provides for a Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities appointed by the President to investigate all matters relating to the safeguards given to linguistic minorities and to report to the President, who causes the report to be laid before Parliament; the officer…

The islands lie off the Kerala coast, their people speak a dialect close to Malayalam except on Minicoy, where Mahl is spoken, and the administration works in Malayalam along with English.

Uttarakhand made Sanskrit its second official language in 2010 and Himachal Pradesh followed in 2019, both keeping Hindi as the first official language; the step is largely symbolic but is asked very often.

The Goa, Daman and Diu Official Language Act of 1987 made Konkani the official language, and the same year Goa became a full state; the script is specified because Konkani is written in more than one script.

The state has many tribal languages and no single dominant tongue, so English, already the language of administration and of education through the churches and schools, was adopted as the official language; Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya have done the same, Meghalaya using Khasi and Garo as associate languages.

The correct answer is C, the Ninety-second Amendment, passed in 2003, which took the Eighth Schedule from eighteen languages to twenty-two by adding Bodo of Assam, Dogri of the Jammu region, Maithili of Bihar and Santhali, the language of the Santhal people spread over Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha.