Haryana Mixed Quiz: Set 21

It is the highest sporting honour conferred by the Government of Haryana on outstanding sportspersons of the state, and it sits alongside the cash awards and the reservation of government posts that make up the sports policy of Haryana.

Haryana was created on that date under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966, which divided the old state of Punjab on a linguistic basis, made Chandigarh a Union Territory to serve as the shared capital of both states, and transferred the hill areas to Himachal Pradesh.

The correct answer is A, Dharma Vira, a senior member of the civil service who became the first Governor of Haryana when the state was created on 1 November 1966.

The common High Court of Punjab, Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh sits at Chandigarh, where the court moved in 1955, and it has no permanent Bench anywhere else, so a writ petition from any district of Haryana is filed there.

Article 231 says that Parliament may by law establish a common High Court for two or more states, or for two or more states and a Union Territory, and it is the article under which the Punjab and Haryana High Court serves Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh.

The town is called the little Cuba or mini Cuba of India because of the Bhiwani Boxing Club, where a stream of boxers trained under the coach Jagdish Singh and from which several reached the Beijing Olympics of 2008, including the bronze medallist Vijender Singh.

She won the gold at the Commonwealth Games held in Delhi in 2010, the first Indian woman wrestler to do so, and she was also the first Indian woman wrestler to qualify for the Olympic Games, at London in 2012.

It is the one place in Haryana developed as a hill station, and the twin Tikkar Taal lakes lie below it.

Article 164(1A), inserted by the Constitution (Ninety-first Amendment) Act, 2003, says that the total number of ministers including the Chief Minister in a state shall not exceed fifteen per cent of the total number of members of the Legislative Assembly.

When Haryana was carved out of Punjab on 1 November 1966, he became the first Chief Minister of the new state.

Article 217 provides that a judge of a High Court shall hold office until he attains the age of sixty-two years, a limit raised from sixty by the 15th Amendment Act, 1963.

Bhaat is the gift of clothes, ornaments, cash and sweets that the mama brings at the marriage of his sister's son or daughter, and the ceremony of bringing it, bhaat bharna, is an event of its own, in which the family of the maternal uncle is received and honoured by…

Article 159 says that every Governor shall, before entering upon his office, make and subscribe an oath or affirmation in the presence of the Chief Justice of the High Court exercising jurisdiction in relation to the state, or in his absence the senior-most judge of that court available.

The Gugga or Gugga Naumi observance falls in the month of Bhadon, when the followers of Gugga Pir, the folk deity associated with protection from snakes, carry the chhari, a tall staff decorated with peacock feathers and coloured cloth, from village to village, dancing and singing his ballad as they…

Article 219 says that every person appointed to be a judge of a High Court shall, before entering upon his office, make and subscribe an oath or affirmation before the Governor of the state, or some person appointed by him, in the form set out in the Third Schedule.

Hindi is the official language of Haryana, settled by the Haryana Official Language Act of 1969, and an amendment to that law in 2010 gave Punjabi the position of second official language of the state.

Article 157 lays down only two qualifications for the office of Governor: the person must be a citizen of India and must have completed the age of thirty-five years.

Article 317 provides that the chairman or a member of a State Public Service Commission may be removed from office only by order of the President, on the ground of misbehaviour, after the Supreme Court has held an inquiry and reported that he ought to be removed; the President may…

It allows the Governor to promulgate an ordinance when the Legislative Assembly of the state is not in session and he is satisfied that circumstances exist which make immediate action necessary.

Article 316 fixes this term for the chairman and members of a State Public Service Commission and of a Joint Public Service Commission, and the appointment is made by the Governor of the state.