Haryana Mixed Quiz: Set 7

The agreement signed in 1981 between Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan reallocated the surplus Ravi and Beas waters, and Haryana's share was fixed at roughly 3.5 million acre feet, to be carried by the proposed Sutlej Yamuna Link canal.

Ambala lies in the north-eastern corner of Haryana, inside the command of the canals drawn from the Yamuna system, and its fields are watered mainly by that flow supply rather than by any other source; the Dadupur head on the Western Yamuna Canal was built to carry water into this…

Ambala, and Ambala Cantt in particular, has a cluster of workshops making laboratory glassware and apparatus, surgical and dental instruments, weighing and measuring devices and household mixers, and it supplies schools, colleges and hospitals across the country.

Faridabad has the largest concentration of factories in the state, making tractors, refrigerators, tyres, switchgear, garments and a very wide range of auto components, and it is also the most populous city of Haryana.

A sprinkler breaks water into drops and spreads it like rain, so the field does not have to be levelled and no flowing sheet of water is needed.

The Murrah is the buffalo of Rohtak, Jind, Hisar and Bhiwani, jet black and heavy bodied with short, tightly curled horns, and it yields more milk and richer milk than any other buffalo breed of India.

Bahadurgarh stands on the Delhi border on the Rohtak road and holds a large number of footwear units along with ceramic, tile and sanitaryware factories, besides engineering and packaging works.

The agricultural university of Haryana was set up at Hisar soon after the state was formed and was later named after Chaudhary Charan Singh.

In check or check basin irrigation the field is levelled and divided into small rectangular plots, each enclosed by low bunds or levees, and water is let into one plot at a time until the required depth stands in it.

Nardak is the old name for the high, fertile tract of the Karnal, Kaithal and Kurukshetra belt, lying above the flood plains on old alluvium and now among the most productive wheat and rice land in the country.

Hisar has a large stainless steel and steel pipe industry and is counted as the steel town of the state, which is notable because Haryana has no iron ore worth mining and the raw material has to be brought in.

Brahma Sarovar is the great tank at Thanesar in Kurukshetra district, and with the Sannihit Sarovar nearby it is the centre of the bathing fairs held there, especially at the solar eclipse and during Gita Jayanti.

These western districts lie outside the command of the Yamuna canals, so their supply comes from the Sutlej through the Bhakra Nangal works: the Bhakra Main Line and the Narwana branch carry it into Hisar, Fatehabad, Sirsa and parts of Jind and Bhiwani, and it is this water that turned…

Karoh Peak stands in the Morni hills of Panchkula district, in the Shivalik belt at the northern edge of the state, and rises to about 1,467 metres.

Manesar is in Gurugram district on the Delhi-Jaipur highway, and the industrial model township developed there holds car, motorcycle, component and electronics plants as well as logistics parks.

The crocodile breeding centre at Bhor Saidan lies in Kurukshetra district and breeds the marsh crocodile, the mugger. Kurukshetra also holds the Chhilchhila Wildlife Sanctuary, a wetland for migratory birds, and the deer and blackbuck enclosures at Pipli, so the district appears more than once in this chapter.

The land in Bhiwani, Charkhi Dadri, Mahendragarh and Rewari rises above the level of the main canals, so water has to be pumped to it in stages.

Haryana has no coal and no petroleum of its own; its thermal power stations run on coal railed in from the eastern coalfields and its refinery on crude piped from the Gujarat coast.

The Central Soil Salinity Research Institute of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research is at Karnal.

It acquires and develops land for industrial estates and industrial model townships, allots plots to entrepreneurs, provides water, power and internal roads and runs common facilities, and it is the body named in questions on industrial infrastructure of the state.