Haryana Mixed Quiz: Set 24

Article 243-I requires the Governor to constitute a Finance Commission for the state at the end of every fifth year to review the financial position of the panchayats and to recommend how the taxes, duties, tolls and fees of the state should be divided with them, what should be assigned…

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…

Launched in 2020, Mera Pani Meri Virasat offers an incentive per acre to farmers in blocks where groundwater has fallen sharply if they replace water-hungry paddy with crops such as maize, pulses, cotton or vegetables, or take up agroforestry; the aim is crop diversification to save the aquifer.

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 national Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign was launched by the Prime Minister from Panipat on 22 January 2015, and Haryana was chosen for the launch because its child sex ratio was among the lowest in the country.

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.

Haryana is administered as six revenue divisions, namely Ambala, Rohtak, Hisar, Gurugram, Karnal and Faridabad, each headed by a Divisional Commissioner of the Indian Administrative Service who supervises the Deputy Commissioners of the districts under that division.

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 amendment never made landholding a condition for contesting; such a requirement would have excluded landless villagers altogether and was not part of the law that the Supreme Court examined.

Haryana Tourism names its roadside complexes after birds, and Blue Jay is the one at Samalkha. The practice gives examiners a ready supply of matching questions, so the complexes must be learnt with their places rather than by the look of the name.

Under the Mukhyamantri Parivar Samridhi Yojana, begun in 2019, a family whose yearly income is up to Rs 1.80 lakh and whose land is up to five acres receives Rs 6,000 a year, part of it paid directly and part put into pension and insurance cover for the members.

The boxer from Kaluwas in Bhiwani district won a bronze medal in the middleweight class at the Beijing Olympics of 2008, the first Olympic medal in boxing for India.

The Government of Haryana notified Charkhi Dadri, carved out of Bhiwani district, as the twenty-second district of the state on 1 December 2016, and it remains the newest district.

The Asigarh fort, also called the Hansi fort, stands on a high mound in Hansi town of Hisar district and is associated in local tradition with Prithviraj Chauhan, whose family held the region before the battles of Tarain.

The Parivar Pehchan Patra gives each family of the state a family identity number with verified details of its members and its income, and pensions, scholarships, ration and scheme benefits are then delivered by reading that record.

Pandit Jasraj was born in a village of Haryana into a family of musicians and became the best known voice of the Mewati gharana, which takes its name from the Mewat region on the Haryana and Rajasthan border.

Mahendragarh is the one district of Haryana whose headquarters does not sit in the town after which the district is named: its administration works from Narnaul, while Mahendragarh town is a tehsil headquarters within the same district.

The scheme, begun in 2020, pays an incentive for every acre on which a farmer gives up paddy for a crop that needs less water, and adds free seed and help with sowing, because the water table under the paddy belt of Kurukshetra, Kaithal and the neighbouring districts has fallen…

Kaithal belongs to the Karnal division along with Karnal and Panipat, and not to the Ambala division. The Ambala division is made up of four districts, Ambala, Kurukshetra, Panchkula and Yamunanagar, so Options A, B and C are all part of it and cannot be the answer.

Chirayu Haryana, announced in 2022, gives the same cashless cover of Rs 5 lakh a family a year as Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, but to families of the state whose yearly income is below Rs 1.80 lakh, which brings in many households that the central list leaves…