Madhya Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 27

The divisions are Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain, Gwalior, Chambal, Jabalpur, Sagar, Rewa, Shahdol and Narmadapuram, and every district of the state falls in one of them.

Itarsi, in Narmadapuram district, is where the Delhi to Chennai trunk line crosses the routes running east towards Jabalpur and west towards Khandwa and Mumbai, so a very large share of the long distance trains of central India pass through it and change direction, engine or crew there.

The Chambal division is administered from Morena and contains the districts of Morena, Bhind and Sheopur. It is the one division of the state whose headquarters does not carry the name of the division, which is exactly why it is asked so often.

It is the highest sports honour of Madhya Pradesh and is given to outstanding senior sportspersons of the state, usually for performance at the national and international level in the preceding year.

The district and the division called Hoshangabad were renamed Narmadapuram in 2021 after the river Narmada, which flows through the district; the division contains Narmadapuram, Harda and Betul.

The state passed this law in 1993 to carry out the 73rd Amendment, held elections under it in 1994 and added the words Gram Swaraj to its name after the reform that made the Gram Sabha the centre of village government.

The Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 created Chhattisgarh as the twenty-sixth state of India on 1 November 2000 with sixteen districts and Raipur as its capital, leaving Madhya Pradesh with forty-five districts and with the position of second largest state by area, behind Rajasthan.

The black soil of the Malwa plateau and the Narmada valley suits soyabean, and the districts around Indore, Ujjain, Dewas and Sehore grow so much of it that the state is called the soya state and Indore became the centre of the soyabean oil and cake trade.

He took office as Chief Minister when the present Madhya Pradesh came into being on 1 November 1956 under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, with Bhopal as the capital.

The Mukhyamantri Ladli Behna Yojana began on 5 March 2023 with a transfer of Rs 1,000 a month, that is Rs 12,000 a year, paid directly into the woman's own Aadhaar-linked bank account.

Uma Bharti became the first woman Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh after her party won the assembly election of 2003, and she had earlier been a Union minister.

The Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission was set up in 1956, when the state itself was formed, and its office is at Indore.

Indore, the commercial capital of the state, was the most populous district in the 2011 Census, while Harda was the least populous.

Born at Tigaria in the Narmadapuram country, he wrote Satpura ke Ghane Jungle, a poem whose slow repeated lines imitate the drowsy depth of the Satpura forest, and it is among the best known descriptive poems in modern Hindi.

Balaghat, in the Jabalpur division on the border with Maharashtra, was the only district of the state to record more than a thousand females per thousand males in the 2011 Census, against a state figure of 931.

She administered the Holkar territory from Maheshwar in the second half of the eighteenth century, was known for a careful and just administration, and built ghats, wells and temples from the Narmada to the Ganga, including the rebuilding of the Kashi Vishwanath temple at Varanasi in 1780.

It was founded in 1946 by the jurist and educationist Dr Hari Singh Gour, who endowed it largely from his own earnings, and it is therefore ten years older than the present state itself.

Madhya Pradesh has a unicameral legislature: under Article 168 the legislature of the state consists of the Governor and a single House, the Vidhan Sabha.

The Rewa division, with its headquarters at Rewa, covers the Baghelkhand districts of Rewa, Satna, Sidhi and Singrauli, together with the districts notified more recently in the same region.

He became the first Chief Justice of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh when the court was constituted on 1 November 1956 with its principal seat at Jabalpur, and he went on to become Chief Justice of India and later Vice-President of India.