Uttar Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 27

The state had seventy districts after thirteen hill districts were separated in November 2000 to form Uttarakhand, and five more were created between 2008 and 2011, namely Kasganj, Amethi, Hapur, Sambhal and Shamli, taking the number to seventy-five.

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.

The seventy-five districts of Uttar Pradesh are grouped into eighteen divisions, each under a Commissioner: Agra, Aligarh, Ayodhya, Azamgarh, Bareilly, Basti, Chitrakoot Dham, Devipatan, Gorakhpur, Jhansi, Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Mirzapur, Moradabad, Prayagraj, Saharanpur and Varanasi.

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.

Sonbhadra, in the extreme south-east of the state, touches Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar, which makes it the only district in India bordering four states; it is the second largest district of Uttar Pradesh in area and, because of its thermal and hydel stations, is called the energy capital…

The state government launched the programme in January 2018, giving every district a flagship traditional product and offering its artisans and small units credit, training, common facilities and marketing support, and the idea was later taken up more widely at the national level.

The Chitrakoot Dham division is one of the two divisions of the state that are not named after their headquarters, and its office sits at Banda, with Chitrakoot, Mahoba and Hamirpur as the other districts of the division.

Mukhyamantri Abhyudaya Yojana was started on Basant Panchami, 16 February 2021, and runs free coaching classes at centres in every division of the state for aspirants of the civil services, state services, NEET, JEE, defence services and other examinations, with serving officers taking some of the classes and the content…

Lakhimpur Kheri, on the Nepal border in the Terai, is the largest district of the state in area and holds the Dudhwa National Park, famous for the tiger and the swamp deer, the state animal.

It empowers every High Court to issue directions, orders or writs, including the writs of habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, quo warranto and certiorari, for the enforcement of the fundamental rights and for any other purpose.

It had the largest population of any district of the state at the 2011 census, counting both the city and its very large rural area.

It was appointed to examine the working of the Community Development Programme and the National Extension Service, and it recommended a three-tier structure of the Gram Panchayat at the village level, the Panchayat Samiti at the block level and the Zila Parishad at the district level, a scheme it called…

Faizabad, both district and division, was renamed Ayodhya in 2018 after the ancient city within it; in the same year Allahabad became Prayagraj and the Mughalsarai railway junction in Chandauli was renamed after Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya.

Parliament may by law create a Legislative Council for a state that does not have one, or abolish an existing Council, but only after the Legislative Assembly of that state passes a resolution supported by a majority of its total membership and by not less than two-thirds of the members…

Sarojini Naidu, the poet and Congress leader called the Nightingale of India, was appointed Governor of the United Provinces, soon renamed Uttar Pradesh, in 1947, which made her the first woman to hold a Governor's office in India.

Lord Dalhousie annexed Awadh in 1856 on the plea of misgovernment, not under the doctrine of lapse, and the Nawab, a poet, dancer and patron of Kathak and thumri, was deposed and sent to Calcutta.

The United Provinces were renamed Uttar Pradesh on 24 January 1950, two days before the Constitution came into force, and the state keeps that date as Uttar Pradesh Day.

Campbell, the Commander in Chief, had already relieved the Residency at the end of 1857 and returned with a large force to retake Lucknow in March 1858, after which the rebel hold on Awadh and Rohilkhand was broken.

Thirteen hill districts were separated on 9 November 2000 to form the new state of Uttaranchal, which was renamed Uttarakhand in 2007, and Uttar Pradesh was left with seventy districts at that point.

At their sessions held at Lucknow in 1916 the two bodies agreed on a joint scheme of reforms, with the Congress accepting separate electorates for Muslims, and the Moderates and Extremists of the Congress came together again in the same session.