Indian States & UTs GK Questions with Answers – Page 4

The Eighth Schedule began with fourteen languages in 1950, and three amendments took the list to twenty-two: Sindhi in 1967, Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali in 1992, and Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali by the Ninety-second Amendment passed in 2003.

It allows the legislature of a state to adopt by law any one or more of the languages in use in that state, or Hindi, as the language or languages to be used for all or any of the official purposes of that state, and until it does so English…

It says that the official language of the Union shall be Hindi in the Devanagari script and that the international form of Indian numerals shall be used, with English to continue for fifteen years from the commencement of the Constitution; the Official Languages Act, 1963 then allowed English to continue…

Lakshadweep has no High Court of its own and falls under the jurisdiction of the Kerala High Court at Kochi, which is the nearest mainland coast and the state whose language, Malayalam, the islanders speak.

Agatti has the only airport of Lakshadweep, so every visitor who flies to the territory lands there and travels on to other islands by boat or helicopter.

The group became a union territory on 1 November 1956 under the States Reorganisation Act, when it was separated from the Malabar district of the old Madras State, and it carried the long name Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands until 1973, when it was renamed Lakshadweep.

Pitti is a tiny uninhabited rock and sandbank in the Lakshadweep group, declared a bird sanctuary because terns, including the sooty tern and the brown noddy, nest there in large numbers.

The thirty-six islands, reefs and banks of Lakshadweep together have a land area of only thirty-two square kilometres, the smallest of any state or union territory of India.

Lakshadweep is made up of thirty-six islands, reefs and submerged banks, of which ten are inhabited: Kavaratti, Agatti, Amini, Kadmat, Kiltan, Chetlat, Bitra, Andrott, Kalpeni and Minicoy.

Minicoy, the southernmost island of Lakshadweep, stands apart in language and culture from the rest of the territory.

The Nine Degree Channel runs between Minicoy, the southernmost island of Lakshadweep, and the main body of the group to its north, where Kalpeni lies.

Andrott, spread over about 4.9 square kilometres, is the largest island of Lakshadweep and also the closest to the Kerala coast.

Kavaratti is the capital and administrative headquarters of Lakshadweep, the seat of the Administrator appointed by the President, and the island where the naval base INS Dweeprakshak was commissioned in 2012.

The merger was made by an Act of Parliament and the Bombay High Court still has jurisdiction, but the merged UT has two Lok Sabha seats, not three.

Its Uniform Civil Code was passed by the state assembly in 2024 and brought into force in January 2025, making Uttarakhand the first state to legislate a single set of rules on marriage, divorce, succession and related matters for its residents, with the exemption for the Scheduled Tribes that the…

That minimum is the key to the question: Article 243D, inserted by the 73rd Amendment, reserves not less than one-third of the seats in every panchayat and one-third of the offices of chairperson for women, and leaves the states free to give more.

The correct answer is A, Madhya Pradesh, which enacted its Public Services Guarantee Act in 2010, the first law in India to make the delivery of listed services, such as a copy of a land record, a ration card or a birth certificate, a legal right within a notified number…

She had been a freedom fighter and a member of the Constituent Assembly before entering state politics.

Ratification by the legislatures of at least half the states is required under Article 368(2) for amendments that touch the federal structure, and the Bill became the Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016, after which the Goods and Services Tax came into force on 1 July 2017.

The achievement is a standard static GK line about the state, and it is usually paired with a second first: Haryana was also the first state to replace sales tax with Value Added Tax, on 1 April 2003, ahead of the wider rollout of VAT from 2005.