Uttar Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 25

For agricultural planning the state is divided into nine agro-climatic zones, which group districts by their soil, rainfall and cropping pattern so that advice on seed, irrigation and fertiliser can be given region by region; the Bhabar and Tarai belt, the western plain, the Bundelkhand zone and the eastern plain…

Mills set up on the bank of the Ganga from the middle of the nineteenth century made Kanpur the first great industrial city of northern India, first in cotton textiles and army supplies and then in leather and tanning, and the nickname followed from the comparison with the mill town…

Mission Shakti was launched in the Navratri of October 2020 and runs in phases, each phase combining awareness drives in villages and schools, help desks for women at police stations, action on crimes against women, and links to self-employment and self-help groups so that safety is joined to earning.

Bhadohi, on the Ganga plain near Varanasi, is the centre of India’s hand-knotted carpet industry, and the whole belt around it is often called the carpet city; ODOP therefore lists carpets as the product of Bhadohi.

The UP Board has its headquarters at Prayagraj, formerly Allahabad, with regional offices elsewhere in the state, and the Basic Shiksha Parishad that looks after classes one to eight is seated in the same city.

Article 217(1) of the Constitution says that a judge of a High Court shall hold office until he attains the age of sixty-two years.

Dhyan Chand was born there on 29 August 1905, joined the army and rose to the rank of Major, and became the centre forward of the Indian teams that won three successive Olympic hockey gold medals.

In Uttar Pradesh the intermediate tier, which covers a development block, is called the Kshettra Panchayat, it is headed by an elected Block Pramukh and it is governed by the Uttar Pradesh Kshettra Panchayats and Zila Panchayats Adhiniyam, 1961, with the Block Development Officer as its executive officer.

The board was created by an Act of 1921 and held its first examination in 1923, which makes it one of the oldest school examination boards in the country as well as one of the largest by the number of candidates.

Pant headed the government of the United Provinces from 1937 as Premier, returned to office after independence and continued as the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh until 1954, when he moved to the Union cabinet as Home Minister.

The day marks the birth anniversary of Major Dhyan Chand, who was born on 29 August 1905 in Uttar Pradesh, and the national sports awards are conferred by the President on this day every year.

Under Article 197 the Legislative Council may hold up an ordinary bill sent by the Assembly for a maximum of three months when it comes the first time.

Malaviya founded Banaras Hindu University at Varanasi in 1916, raising its funds by public subscription, and it grew into what is usually described as the largest residential university in Asia; the Institute of Medical Sciences and the engineering college that became IIT (BHU) are part of it.

Bhadohi is called the carpet city and is the largest carpet weaving cluster in India, with looms spread through the neighbouring parts of Mirzapur, Varanasi and Sant Ravidas Nagar.

In 2021 the award for the most outstanding sporting performance was renamed the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, so his name now attaches to two national honours, this one and the older Dhyan Chand Award for lifetime achievement.

Prasad, who lived at Varanasi from 1889 to 1937, published Kamayani in 1936; it retells the story of Manu, Shraddha and Ida as an allegory of feeling and intellect and is treated as the chief long poem of Chhayavad.

The University of Allahabad was founded in 1887, which makes it the fourth oldest modern university in India after those of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, and it was converted into a central university in 2005.

Green Park stands on the bank of the Ganga at Kanpur and has staged Test cricket since 1952, which makes it the oldest international ground in the state and also the home ground of the state cricket association.

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan founded a school at Aligarh that grew into the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875, and that college was raised to the status of Aligarh Muslim University in 1920.

The Ekana stadium, named after Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee, stands at Gomti Nagar in Lucknow and is the largest and newest cricket ground of the state, used for international matches and for league cricket.