Haryana Mixed Quiz: Set 8

Under the scheme the state pays an incentive per acre to farmers in blocks where groundwater has fallen deepest if they sow maize, pulses, cotton, bajra or other dry crops in place of paddy, and it links the help to registration of the crop on the state portal.

The barrage was built on the Yamuna in Yamunanagar district a short distance upstream of the old Tajewala headworks and was commissioned in 1999.

The Census of 2011 recorded 879 females for every 1,000 males in Haryana, the lowest figure of any state in the country, against a national average of 943.

The Indian Oil refinery at Baholi in Panipat district was commissioned in the late nineteen nineties and was later expanded with a petrochemical complex; it is supplied with crude through a pipeline from the Gujarat coast and sends its products to north India.

The Jhelum is called Vitasta in the Rigveda, and it is one of the seven rivers of the Sapta Sindhu, the land in which the hymns were composed.

The breed takes its name from the region and is the classic dual purpose cattle of the state: white or light grey, with a long narrow face, a small hump and strong legs, giving a useful quantity of milk and bullocks once prized for ploughing and carting.

Among the union territories Puducherry recorded 1,037 females for every 1,000 males in 2011, the only union territory with more women than men and the highest figure in that group.

The National Dairy Research Institute, a deemed university under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, has its main campus at Karnal and works on dairy cattle and buffalo breeding, milk processing and dairy technology.

The Gayatri Mantra first appears in the third mandala of the Rigveda and is ascribed to the sage Vishvamitra. It is addressed to Savitr, the sun, and it is composed in the Gayatri metre, from which it takes its popular name.

The National Capital Territory of Delhi lies within the eastern arm of Haryana, which encloses it on three sides, while Uttar Pradesh lies on the fourth.

The Census of 2011 found that 31.16 per cent of Indians lived in urban areas and the remaining 68.84 per cent in villages.

Surajkund is an amphitheatre-shaped tank in the Aravalli hills near Faridabad, and it is traditionally ascribed to Suraj Pal, a ruler of the Tomar line that held the Delhi region before the Chauhans.

The Shatapatha Brahmana belongs to the Shukla or White Yajurveda and the Taittiriya Brahmana to the Krishna or Black Yajurveda, so both are Brahmana texts of the Yajurveda.

The Shivalik belt of Panchkula and Yamunanagar carries dry deciduous forest with sal, khair, shisham and sain, while the Aravalli spurs of the south and the dry south-west carry thorn forest of kikar or babool, khejri, ber and dhak.

Haryana recorded 879 females for every 1,000 males in 2011. The number follows directly from the population table: 1,18,56,728 females against 1,34,94,734 males in a total of 2,53,51,462 people.

Kalesar in Yamunanagar district is the one place in Haryana with a genuine sal forest, a Shivalik type of dry deciduous forest mixed with khair, shisham, sain and semul, with chir pine on the higher slopes.

These three receive the largest number of hymns in the Rigveda. Indra, the war god and breaker of forts, has the greatest number; Agni, the fire that carries the offering to the gods, comes next; and Soma, both a plant and a god, has the whole of the ninth mandala…

Density is the population divided by the area, and for Haryana that is 2,53,51,462 people spread over 44,212 square kilometres, which works out to 573.

Rakhigarhi lies in Hisar district and covers the land of two villages, Rakhi Khas and Rakhi Shahpur, on a dried channel of the Drishadvati, today called the Chautang.

Haryana's literacy rate in 2011 was 75.55 per cent, a little above the national rate of 74.04 per cent. The figure hides a wide gap between the sexes, because male literacy was 84.06 per cent while female literacy was only 65.94 per cent, a difference of about eighteen percentage points.