Uttar Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 24

The Purvanchal Expressway runs east from the Lucknow district to Ghazipur, passing through the eastern districts of the state, and it was built to open up a region that had little fast road connection before.

The fertile plain of western Uttar Pradesh, watered by canals and tube wells, carries the densest sugarcane tract in the country, and the state leads India both in cane grown and in sugar produced, with mills concentrated in Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur and Bijnor.

Begun in 2018 along with the ODOP programme, it gives traditional craftspeople such as weavers, potters, carpenters, blacksmiths, cobblers and tailors a short training course of about six days and a free set of tools so that they can earn more from the same craft.

The One District One Product programme was announced on Uttar Pradesh Diwas, 24 January 2018, and picks one traditional product for every district of the state so that its artisans get design help, common facility centres, marketing support and easier credit through one programme instead of many.

It requires the Governor to cause a statement of the estimated receipts and expenditure of the state for each financial year to be laid before the House or Houses of the legislature, and that statement is what is popularly called the budget.

The United Provinces High Courts (Amalgamation) Order took effect on 26 July 1948 and merged the Chief Court of Oudh, which sat at Lucknow, into the Allahabad High Court.

The scheme, run by the Khadi and Village Industries Board and the MSME department, finances a bank loan for a new unit set up by an educated unemployed youth of the state, with the project cost allowed up to Rs 25 lakh in the industry sector and up to Rs…

Article 243B says that there shall be constituted in every state panchayats at the village, intermediate and district levels, and Article 243(d) defines a panchayat as an institution of self-government constituted under Article 243B for the rural areas.

A money bill can be introduced only in the Vidhan Sabha and only on the recommendation of the Governor; once passed there, it goes to the Vidhan Parishad, which may discuss it and recommend changes but must return it within fourteen days, failing which it is deemed passed in the…

Article 161 lets the Governor grant pardon, reprieve, respite or remission of punishment, and suspend, remit or commute the sentence of any person convicted of an offence against a law relating to a matter to which the executive power of the state extends.

Nivesh Mitra is the single-window system of the state, on which an entrepreneur files one application and tracks the no-objection certificates, registrations and licences needed from the many departments, with time limits fixed for each of them under the state’s right-to-service rules.

Article 198 says a money bill shall not be introduced in a Legislative Council, and Article 207 requires the recommendation of the Governor before a money bill or a bill dealing with the subjects named in Article 199 is introduced.

The Rihand dam stands on the Rihand river, a tributary of the Son, in Sonbhadra district, and its reservoir is named after Govind Ballabh Pant, the first chief minister of Uttar Pradesh; with the Obra and Anpara thermal stations nearby, the district is described as the energy capital of the…

Asaf-ud-Daula of Awadh had the Bara Imambara built at Lucknow in 1784 as a famine relief work, so that labourers could earn wages through a year of scarcity.

Under it the state distributes free smartphones and tablets to students of degree, diploma, technical and professional courses so that they can attend online classes and use government portals, and the beneficiary data is kept on the DigiShakti portal.

Alha is sung in the Bundelkhandi region of southern Uttar Pradesh and the adjoining districts of Madhya Pradesh, especially around Mahoba, and it narrates the battles of the warrior brothers Alha and Udal of the Chandela court.

Moradabad has worked brass for centuries and exports engraved and polished metal ware to many countries, which is why the city is called Peetal Nagri, the town of brass, and brass is its product under the One District One Product programme.

The scheme, notified in 2019, pays up to Rs 5 lakh to the family of a farmer who dies or is disabled in an accident, and it covers not only the recorded landholder but also the family members who work on the land, the claim being filed with the district…

Cautley, an engineer of the Bengal Artillery, surveyed and built the Upper Ganga Canal, which took water from the Ganga at Haridwar across the Doab and was opened in 1854; it was the largest irrigation work of its time in the subcontinent.

Kannauj has distilled attar from flowers, herbs and roots for centuries using the deg and bhapka method, and is called the perfume city of India, so ODOP lists perfume and attar as its product.