Bihar Mixed Quiz: Set 24

The Shahi Litchi of the Muzaffarpur belt in north Bihar received a geographical indication tag for its thin skin, small stone and high sugar content, and the district is often called the litchi capital, with the crop also grown in Vaishali, East Champaran and Samastipur.

Article 202 requires the Governor to cause a statement of the estimated receipts and expenditure of the state for every financial year, called the annual financial statement, to be laid before the House or Houses of the legislature.

Under the resolve Aarakshit Rozgar, Mahilaon ka Adhikar, Bihar reserved thirty-five per cent of posts in state government services for women, a horizontal reservation that applies across categories, and the state was the first in the country to go that far in its services.

The seven resolves were announced as a programme of government in 2015 and were taken up for implementation from 2016, each resolve carrying its own schemes with budget provision: work for the youth, reservation for women in government jobs, electricity, piped drinking water, paved lanes and drains, toilets in every…

The Barauni refinery of Indian Oil was commissioned in the 1960s at Barauni in Begusarai district with assistance from the Soviet Union, and around it grew the Barauni fertiliser plant and the Barauni thermal power station, making Begusarai the industrial hub of the state.

The Gram Kachahari is a feature of the Bihar Panchayat Raj Act, 2006 and is a bench of the directly elected Sarpanch and the elected Panches of the panchayat area; it decides small disputes between villagers and may impose a fine in the matters the Act lists, while serious offences…

Jeevika is the working name of the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society, set up under the Rural Development Department with assistance from the World Bank, and it is the state agency for the national rural livelihoods mission, later renamed the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana, National Rural Livelihoods Mission.

The correct answer is A, Sir Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier, who became the first Chief Justice of the Patna High Court when it began sitting in 1916.

Bihar enforced total prohibition from 5 April 2016 and then enacted the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016, which bans the manufacture, trade, storage and consumption of liquor in the state.

An indigo cultivator of Champaran, he followed Gandhi from one meeting to another, including the Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916, until Gandhi agreed to come and see the condition of the tenants for himself.

The women who form and run the self-help groups of the programme are called Jeevika Didi in common speech and in government communication, and they have taken on work far beyond saving and lending, including running Didi ki Rasoi canteens, selling seeds and sanitary napkins, and keeping accounts for their…

It provides that there shall be a Council of Ministers with the Chief Minister at the head to aid and advise the Governor in the exercise of his functions, except in so far as he is required to exercise them in his discretion, and it adds that the question whether…

The amendment that brought in the Goods and Services Tax had to be ratified by the legislatures of at least half the states.

The name itself preserves the link: Magadha gives Magadhi, and Magadhi gives Magahi. Ardhamagadhi, a close relative, is the language in which the Jain canon preserves the sermons of Mahavira, and Pali, the language of the Buddhist scriptures, grew out of the same eastern speech.

The Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana, run through Jeevika, identifies the very poorest families, among them those whose earnings came from making or selling liquor before prohibition came into force in the state, and gives them an asset, a consumption support for the early months, training and hand-holding, so that they move…

On 11 August 1942, in the first days of the Quit India movement, a procession of students reached the Secretariat at Patna to hoist the national flag on its dome; police firing killed seven of them.

The Bihar Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act was passed in 2006, after the central Act of 2003 and the recommendation of the Twelfth Finance Commission that states pass such laws to earn debt relief.

The scheme of the industries department allows a project of up to Rs 10 lakh for a new enterprise and gives half of it, that is up to Rs 5 lakh, as a subsidy that need not be repaid, the rest being a loan at a nominal rate of interest…

Bihar has a bicameral legislature, and a money bill as defined in Article 199 can be introduced only in the Vidhan Sabha, the lower House, and only on the recommendation of the Governor.

The scheme, begun in 2006, gives money to buy a bicycle to girls who enter Class 9, the point at which many girls used to drop out because the high school was several kilometres from the village.