Uttar Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 4

The stretch is valued because it still carries the Gangetic dolphin, the gharial, turtles and large numbers of wintering waterbirds in a river that is heavily used elsewhere.

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 Bhadawari buffalo comes from the Bhadawar tract along the Yamuna and Chambal in Agra, Etawah and the neighbouring districts, and although its yield is modest the fat percentage of its milk is the highest among Indian buffalo breeds, which makes it valued for ghee.

Uttar Pradesh grows more sugarcane than any other state, chiefly in the western districts of Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur and Bijnor and in the Tarai belt, where deep alluvial soil, assured canal and tubewell water and a long growing season suit the crop; the state also has the largest number of…

The Upper Ganga Canal begins at the Bhimgoda barrage at Haridwar, where the Ganga leaves the hills and still has the fall needed to drive a gravity canal.

Dudhwa, in Lakhimpur Kheri district on the Indo-Nepal border, was declared a national park in 1977 and remains the only national park in Uttar Pradesh; everything else protected in the state is a wildlife sanctuary, a tiger reserve or a conservation reserve.

Chikankari is the fine white shadow work embroidery of Lucknow, done with untwisted thread on muslin, cotton and georgette, and it carries a geographical indication tag in the name of the city.

Pachnada, in Etawah district, takes its name from the meeting of five streams, where the Chambal joins the Yamuna along with the Sindh, the Kwari and the Pahuj.

The sanctuary covers a stretch of the Ganga at Varanasi and was created so that turtles released into the river could clean it of organic waste and the species themselves be protected from the trade in shells and meat.

Usar, also called reh, is the saline and alkaline soil of districts such as Raebareli, Unnao, Hardoi, Kanpur and Aligarh, where sodium salts gather on the surface; gypsum, which is calcium sulphate, replaces the sodium on the clay particles with calcium, the sodium is then washed away by drainage, and…

The Indian Veterinary Research Institute is at Izatnagar in Bareilly district, with its older campus at Mukteswar in Uttarakhand, and it is the premier institution for veterinary research, vaccine work and animal disease control in India; the Central Avian Research Institute is on the same Izatnagar campus.

Uttar Pradesh is bounded by Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar, which is more neighbours than any other Indian state has.

Cautley surveyed the Doab, chose Haridwar as the head and supervised the digging of the Upper Ganga Canal, which was opened in 1854.

Where many people depend on a limited area of land, as in the Ganga plain of Uttar Pradesh, holdings are small, the farmer uses a great deal of family labour and manure, irrigation is applied wherever possible and two or three crops are taken from the same field each year…

Firozabad has made glass bangles, chandeliers and glassware for generations and is called the bangle city of India.

The park lies in the Terai of Lakhimpur Kheri along the Nepal border, and the Kishanpur sanctuary, which forms part of the same tiger reserve, is in the same district.

The TX2 award, named for the global goal of doubling wild tiger numbers, was given for the first time in 2020, and the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve in the Terai of Uttar Pradesh received it after its tiger count rose sharply in the years following its notification as a tiger reserve.

Kalanamak is a scented rice of the Tarai districts around Siddharthnagar, close to Kapilvastu, and tradition links it with the Buddha, who is said to have given the grain to the people of the region; its husk is black, the grain fragrant, and it has been registered as a geographical…

Narora stands on the Ganga in Bulandshahr district, and the barrage there feeds the Lower Ganga Canal, opened in 1878 to extend irrigation to the middle Doab districts of Etawah, Kanpur and Fatehpur.

The Singrauli coalfield spreads across the border of Madhya Pradesh into Sonbhadra, and no other district of Uttar Pradesh has workable coal.