Uttar Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 6

The Sharda Canal begins at Banbasa, where the Sharda river, also called the Kali, comes down from the Kumaon hills to the plain.

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

The town and the villages around it, together with neighbouring Mirzapur, form the largest hand knotted carpet belt of India and export most of what they weave.

The Girwa flows out of Nepal through Bahraich district, and its clear, deep stretch inside Katarniaghat is one of the few places in India where the gharial and the Gangetic dolphin are found together, which is why the sanctuary is treated as a key gharial breeding site.

The Yamuna Expressway is an access controlled road of about 165 km from Greater Noida to Agra, built along the left bank of the Yamuna and opened in 2012; it is managed by the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority and cut the Delhi to Agra drive to a little over…

Mustard is a rabi oilseed, sown in October and November and harvested in February and March, and in Uttar Pradesh it is grown mainly in the Agra, Mathura and Aligarh tract; the cool dry weather of the rabi season suits it.

The Census of 2011 counted about 19.98 crore persons in Uttar Pradesh, roughly 16.5 per cent of the population of the country, which is the largest share of any state and more than the population of most countries of the world.

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

The Matatila dam stands on the Betwa on the border of the Jhansi and Lalitpur tract and was built jointly by Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh for irrigation and a small hydel station.

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.

Aligarh has made locks since the colonial period and the trade grew into a cluster of small workshops making locks, hinges, builders hardware and brass fittings, which is also the One District One Product of the district.

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 Purvanchal Expressway runs about 341 km from Chand Sarai near Lucknow to Haidaria in Ghazipur district, passing through Barabanki, Amethi, Sultanpur, Ayodhya, Ambedkar Nagar, Azamgarh and Mau.

The Gomti rises at Madho Tanda in Pilibhit district, flows past Lucknow and Jaunpur and joins the Ganga in Ghazipur district, so its whole course lies inside Uttar Pradesh.

The exact count was 19,98,12,341 persons, which is usually rounded to twenty crore in discussion, and candidates should recognise both the rounded and the exact form.

The city grew in the nineteenth century as the cotton and woollen mill town of the Ganga plain, with army supply orders behind it, and the tanneries of Jajmau grew beside the mills.

The alluvium of the Ganga plain holds water close to the surface, so a farmer can sink a tube well cheaply and pump whenever the crop needs water rather than waiting for a canal turn.

The Rihand dam was built on the Rihand, a tributary of the Son, in Sonbhadra district, and its reservoir is the largest artificial lake of India.

The Bundelkhand Expressway runs about 296 km from Bharatkoop in Chitrakoot district to Kudrail in Etawah district, where it meets the Agra Lucknow Expressway, so that Bundelkhand is linked through it to Agra, Noida and Delhi.

Uttar Pradesh had 829 persons on every square kilometre in 2011, more than twice the national density, because the alluvial plain of the Ganga and the Yamuna supports a very dense rural population.