Uttar Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 2

Uttar Pradesh is landlocked, so it can have no coastal plain at all. The state is divided into three physical regions only: the Bhabhar and Terai belt in the north, the Ganga plain in the middle and the southern plateau and hills beyond the Yamuna.

The Ghatampur Thermal Power Project stands at Ghatampur in Kanpur Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh. It is a coal-based plant of three units of 660 MW each, built by Neyveli Uttar Pradesh Power Limited, a joint venture of NLC India Limited and the Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam.

The Rihand dam in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh holds back the Rihand river, a tributary of the Sone, and its reservoir, named Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar after the state's first chief minister, is the largest man-made lake in India by surface area.

After leaving the hills at Haridwar in Uttarakhand, the Ganga enters Uttar Pradesh in Bijnor district and then flows south-east past Kannauj, Kanpur, Prayagraj, Varanasi and Ghazipur before passing into Bihar near Ballia.

Bhur is the raised sandy soil of the upper doab in districts such as Meerut, Bulandshahr and Aligarh, blown into low ridges by the wind, poor in moisture and organic matter, and fit for bajra, barley and, where irrigation reaches, for sugarcane.

This branch strikes the Ganga delta, is turned west by the Himalaya and moves up the Ganga plain, so it reaches eastern Uttar Pradesh about the middle of June and then travels on to the west, which is why the east of the state gets both earlier and heavier rain.

These districts, with Jalaun, Hamirpur and Chitrakoot, form the Bundelkhand upland in the south-west of the state. It is built of ancient granite and gneiss, has thin soil and bare hillocks, is drained by the Betwa and the Ken, and is the most drought-prone part of Uttar Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh covers 240,928 square kilometres, about 7.3 per cent of the area of India, which makes it the fourth largest state after Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

The Upper Ganga Canal, designed by Proby Cautley and opened in 1854, leaves the Ganga at Haridwar and waters the upper Ganga-Yamuna Doab through Meerut, Bulandshahr and Aligarh.

The Yamuna, the longest tributary of the Ganga, joins it at Prayagraj, and the meeting place is called the Sangam.

Formed on the Vindhyan and Deccan trap rocks of the south, it is clayey, dark and able to hold water through a dry spell, which is why the gram, wheat, oilseed and pulse crops of Jhansi, Jalaun, Hamirpur and Banda depend on it.

The monsoon current enters from the Bay of Bengal in the south-east and loses moisture as it travels up the plain, so the eastern districts and the Terai of Gorakhpur, Bahraich and Lakhimpur Kheri are the wettest, while Mathura, Agra and the Bundelkhand districts of Jhansi, Jalaun and Banda are…

Khadar is the new alluvium of the flood plains, lying low along the rivers and renewed by a fresh layer of silt almost every year.

Uttar Pradesh lies between these parallels and between 77 degrees 5 minutes east and 84 degrees 38 minutes east longitude.

The Yamuna rises at the Yamunotri glacier in Uttarakhand, flows past Delhi, Mathura and Agra and joins the Ganga at Prayagraj after a course of more than thirteen hundred kilometres, which makes it the longest tributary of the Ganga.

The Gomti rises from Fulhar lake, also called Gomat Taal, in Pilibhit district of the terai belt, flows south-east through Lakhimpur Kheri, Sitapur, Lucknow, Sultanpur and Jaunpur, and joins the Ganga east of Varanasi.

Heavy rainfall and a high water table there support tropical moist deciduous forest in which sal, Shorea robusta, is the chief tree, in Lakhimpur Kheri, Bahraich, Pilibhit, Shravasti, Balrampur and Gorakhpur, and Dudhwa National Park and the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve lie inside this belt.

The hill districts of Uttar Pradesh were constituted as the state of Uttaranchal on 9 November 2000 under the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000, and the state was renamed Uttarakhand in 2007.

Bakhira, in Sant Kabir Nagar district of eastern Uttar Pradesh, is the largest natural lake of the state. It is protected as a bird sanctuary for the migratory birds that winter there and is also listed as a Ramsar wetland of international importance.

The correct answer is A, Mirzapur and Sonbhadra, the Vindhyan districts of the south-east, where dry deciduous forest grows on hilly ground and the tendu tree is common; its leaves are collected and dried to roll bidis and give seasonal work to thousands of forest dwellers, along with khair for…