Haryana Mixed Quiz: Set 22

Haryana has 10 parliamentary constituencies for the Lok Sabha and 5 seats in the Rajya Sabha, the latter allotted under the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution and filled by the elected members of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha voting by a single transferable vote.

The Haryana Legislative Assembly has 90 elected seats, a strength it has had since 1977, of which 17 are reserved for the Scheduled Castes and none for the Scheduled Tribes, because no tribe is notified in the state.

HSSC, with its office at Panchkula, recruits to the Group C and Group D posts of the state government and its boards and corporations, and candidates first qualify a Common Eligibility Test before appearing for the examination of a particular group of posts.

The Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 carved Haryana out of Punjab on 1 November 1966, transferred the hill areas to Himachal Pradesh and made Chandigarh a Union Territory; from that day the High Court of Punjab became the Punjab and Haryana High Court, a common High Court for the two states…

After the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act of 1992 every state had to bring its own law in line with Part IX of the Constitution, and Haryana did so with the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994, which still governs the gram panchayats, panchayat samitis and zila parishads of the state.

Adi Badri lies in the Shivalik foothills of Yamunanagar district, and tradition treats it as the point where the Saraswati emerges, which is why the state has taken up work on the river and on a reservoir there.

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.

Chaudhary Devi Lal, born on 25 September 1914 at Teja Khera in Sirsa district and known across the state as Tau, served as Chief Minister of Haryana and became Deputy Prime Minister of India in the government formed in 1989, holding that office into 1991.

Article 164(4) provides that a minister who for any period of six consecutive months is not a member of the legislature of the state shall at the expiration of that period cease to be a minister.

Ghevar, the disc of fried batter soaked in syrup, is the sweet of the Hariyali Teej of Sawan, when swings are hung from the trees, a married daughter receives new clothes and sweets from her parents, and the women of the household sing Teej songs.

Article 227 gives every High Court superintendence over all courts and tribunals throughout the territories in relation to which it exercises jurisdiction; it may call for returns, make rules for their practice and prescribe the forms of their records, though the power does not extend to courts and tribunals under…

Sakshi Malik, from Mokhra village in Rohtak district, won the bronze medal in the 58 kg freestyle event at the Rio Olympics and became the first Indian woman wrestler to win an Olympic medal; hers was also the first medal India won at those Games.

Under the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994 a gram panchayat is headed by a Sarpanch, who is elected directly by all the voters of the panchayat area, with an Up-Sarpanch as deputy and panches elected from the wards of the village.

The Ragini is the stanza song of Haryana, built on a fixed refrain to which the singer returns after every verse.

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…

Pandit Lakhmi Chand is the greatest of the Saang poets of Haryana, and his raginis are still sung across the state.

The phrase came from the defections of 1967 in the newly formed state, when Gaya Lal, a member of the Legislative Assembly, changed his party three times within a fortnight, and the comment made on the occasion gave the language a lasting expression for floor-crossing.

Haryana amended its Panchayati Raj Act in 2015 to add conditions for candidates, including a minimum educational qualification, no outstanding arrears of electricity dues or cooperative loans, and a functional toilet at home.

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.

The amendment required a general category candidate to have passed matriculation, that is Class 10, while a relaxation was given to women and to Scheduled Caste candidates, who needed Class 8, and to Scheduled Caste women contesting a panch seat, for whom Class 5 was enough.