Haryana Mixed Quiz: Set 25

Under the Bhavantar Bharpai Yojana of 2018 the state fixes a protected rate for these vegetables and pays the grower the difference when the market price falls below it, because a vegetable cannot be stored like grain and its price crashes in a good year.

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.

Sirsa, in the south-west of the state on the Punjab and Rajasthan borders, is the largest district of Haryana by area and also the least densely peopled.

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.

The scheme, begun in 2016, registers unemployed young people who have passed the intermediate, graduated or taken a postgraduate degree, pays them a monthly allowance that rises with the qualification, and adds an honorarium for up to a hundred hours of work a month in a government or private office…

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.

Charkhi Dadri was carved out of Bhiwani district and notified as the twenty-second district of Haryana on 1 December 2016; both districts now lie in the Rohtak division.

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.

The scheme allows a member of an Antyodaya family, that is a family with a yearly income below Rs 1.80 lakh, to travel a thousand kilometres free in a year in the buses of Haryana Roadways, the card being issued against the family’s Parivar Pehchan Patra and the journeys recorded…

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.

In the Census of 2011 Faridabad was the most populous district of Haryana and also the most densely peopled, because the district is an industrial city of the National Capital Region rather than a largely rural district.

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.

The card works like the Kisan Credit Card but for livestock: the owner of an animal gets working capital on the strength of the animal, repayable in instalments at a low rate of interest, which suits a state whose Murrah buffalo is a brand of its own and whose milk…

One tradition places the birth of the Braj poet Surdas at Sihi, a village in Faridabad district, and Haryana claims him on that ground; other accounts place his birth at Runakta near Agra, so the question is always set as a tradition rather than as a settled fact.

Within four years of its formation Haryana became the first state in India to carry electricity to every one of its villages, in 1970, and the achievement appears in almost every list of the state's firsts.

Hansli is the heavy silver neck ring of the Haryanvi woman, worn with the kanthi, the galsari and the hamel, and it is still described in folk songs and in Saang performances as the mark of a bride.

The Chief Minister’s Window, opened in 2014, takes complaints from citizens at district offices and online, tracks them against a time limit and reports to the Chief Minister’s office, so it is the grievance channel of the state government.

Rao Birender Singh was the first Speaker of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha when the House was constituted in 1966, and he left the chair in 1967 to become Chief Minister, the first non-Congress Chief Minister of the state.

The scheme, begun in 2020, distributes napkins every month through anganwadi workers and self-help groups to women and adolescent girls of families below the poverty line, the aim being both health and school attendance.

Yamunanagar is the only district of Haryana that touches Uttarakhand, which it meets in the north-east where the Yamuna leaves the hills and becomes the boundary of the state.