Madhya Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 24

The Vindhyachal super thermal power station of NTPC stands at Vindhyanagar in Singrauli district, close to the coalfields that feed it, and it is among the largest thermal power plants in the country by installed capacity.

The Government of Madhya Pradesh launched the Ladli Laxmi Yojana on 1 April 2007 to improve the sex ratio and to strengthen the position of the girl child in the family, and the Department of Women and Child Development has run it since through anganwadi centres.

Both schemes are run by this department, which uses its anganwadi network and project offices to register beneficiaries, verify eligibility and handle grievances, and both have their own portals under it.

Preparing the budget, that is estimating the receipts and the expenditure of every department and putting the estimates together, is the work of the executive: in Madhya Pradesh the Finance Department prepares it and the Finance Minister presents it.

The solar park at Gurh in Rewa district, of 750 megawatt capacity, was the first renewable project in the country to supply an institutional buyer outside its own state, and a part of its power goes to the Delhi Metro, the rest to the distribution companies of Madhya Pradesh.

In Madhya Pradesh the voters of the panchayat area elect the Sarpanch directly, along with the Panches of the wards, and the Panches then choose an Up-Sarpanch from among themselves.

The scheme's means test sets the family's annual income ceiling below Rs 2.5 lakh, and alongside it no member of the family may be an income-tax payer or in regular government service, the family may not hold more than five acres of land, and it may not own a four-wheeler…

It was established on 2 January 1936 by Letters Patent as the High Court of Judicature at Nagpur for the Central Provinces and Berar, which until then had been under a Judicial Commissioner rather than a High Court.

Chhattisgarh was created on 1 November 2000 under the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000. Until then Madhya Pradesh was the largest state of India by area; after the separation Rajasthan became the largest and Madhya Pradesh the second largest.

The queen of Garha-Katanga, the Gond kingdom around present-day Jabalpur, she ruled as regent for her young son, defended her territory against Asaf Khan in 1564 and chose death over surrender when the battle turned.

The instalment goes straight into the woman's own Aadhaar-linked bank account by DBT, and the state fixed the 10th of the month as the transfer day so that the payment is predictable and can be tracked.

Born at Babai in the present Narmadapuram district, he was a poet of the freedom movement as well as an editor, and he is widely remembered for Pushp ki Abhilasha, in which a flower asks not to be offered to a deity but to be strewn on the path along…

The Madhya Pradesh Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, passed in the middle of the 2000s on the pattern of the central Act of 2003 and the advice of the Twelfth Finance Commission, requires the state to keep its fiscal deficit within three per cent of the gross state domestic…

Article 159 requires the Governor, before entering upon his office, to make and subscribe an oath before the Chief Justice of the High Court exercising jurisdiction in relation to the state, or in his absence before the senior-most judge of that court available.

Madhya Pradesh introduced the Mukhyamantri Kisan Kalyan Yojana in 2020 as a state top-up paid in instalments to farmers who are already eligible beneficiaries of the central PM-KISAN income support, so a farmer in the state receives both amounts and the state uses the central beneficiary list for verification.

Ajit Jogi became the first Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh when the state came into existence on 1 November 2000, and Dinesh Nandan Sahay was its first Governor.

Nepanagar, a planned industrial township in Burhanpur district, grew around the newsprint mill set up there in the years around independence, which used bamboo from the Satpura forests as its raw material; the town is named after the National Newsprint and Paper Mills.

The Mukhyamantri Seekho-Kamao Yojana places young people aged about 18 to 29 as trainees in registered establishments and pays them a monthly stipend in the range of Rs 8,000 to Rs 10,000 while they learn, so that training carries an income and the trainee is not forced to drop out.

Pithampur, in Dhar district next to Indore, is the largest industrial estate of the state and holds vehicle, auto component, pharmaceutical and engineering plants, along with a vehicle testing track; because of the concentration of automobile units it is often called the Detroit of Madhya Pradesh.

Running since 2006, it gives financial assistance for the marriage of daughters of poor families and holds community marriage ceremonies at which several couples are married together, which keeps the cost to the family low.