Uttar Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 7

The Ganga Expressway is being built by UPEIDA from Bijauli in Meerut district to Judapur Dandu in Prayagraj district, a length of about 594 km, which makes it longer than the Purvanchal and Bundelkhand expressways put together.

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…

Uttar Pradesh had 912 females for every 1,000 males in 2011, below the national figure, and its child sex ratio for the age group of nought to six years was 902.

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.

The North Eastern Railway, one of the zones of the Indian Railways, has its headquarters at Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh and runs the Lucknow, Varanasi and Izzatnagar divisions.

Lions brought from the Gir forest of Gujarat were released there in the late 1950s and bred for a few years, but poaching and the small size of the forest wiped the group out, and the experiment is now cited as the first attempt to give the Asiatic lion a…

The literacy rate of Uttar Pradesh in 2011 was 67.68 per cent, with male literacy at 77.28 per cent and female literacy at 57.18 per cent, so the gap between men and women was about twenty percentage points.

The Jamunapari takes its name from the Yamuna and comes from the ravine country where the Yamuna, Chambal and Kwari meet around Etawah and Chakarnagar; it is the largest Indian goat breed, recognised by its long drooping ears, roman nose and tuft of hair on the hindquarters, and it has…

The North Central Railway was created in 2003 with its headquarters at Prayagraj, then called Allahabad, and it works the Prayagraj, Agra and Jhansi divisions, which together carry the busy Delhi to Howrah and Delhi to Mumbai trunk routes across the state.

The scheme was announced on Uttar Pradesh Day, 24 January 2018, and chose one traditional product for each district so that help with design, credit, common facility centres, packaging and marketing could be concentrated instead of scattered.

Gautam Buddha Nagar, the district of Noida and Greater Noida, had the highest literacy rate in the state in 2011, which follows from its industrial and service economy and the educated workers it attracts.

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 Modern Coach Factory at Lalganj in Rae Bareli district was set up to build stainless steel passenger coaches of the newer design and is one of the three coach manufacturing units of the Indian Railways.

The Yamuna rises at the Yamunotri glacier in Uttarakhand, flows past Delhi, Mathura and Agra and joins the Ganga at Prayagraj after a course of more than thirteen hundred kilometres, which makes it the longest tributary of the Ganga.

Allahabad district, renamed Prayagraj in 2018, was the most populous district of Uttar Pradesh in 2011 with about 59.5 lakh people, and Mahoba in Bundelkhand was the least populous.

Heavy rainfall and a high water table there support tropical moist deciduous forest in which sal, Shorea robusta, is the chief tree, in Lakhimpur Kheri, Bahraich, Pilibhit, Shravasti, Balrampur and Gorakhpur, and Dudhwa National Park and the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve lie inside this belt.

RDSO is the research, design and standards wing of the Indian Railways and works from Manak Nagar in Lucknow. It frames the technical standards for track, bridges, rolling stock, signalling and traction, tests new designs, and certifies vendors, so almost every railway specification in the country carries its stamp.

Ghaziabad, which lies on the edge of Delhi and is almost entirely built up, recorded the highest density of population among the districts of Uttar Pradesh in 2011, far above the state figure of 829 persons per square kilometre.

Commercial services on the north south corridor of the Lucknow Metro began in September 2017, making the state capital the first city of Uttar Pradesh with a metro of its own.

The census is taken under the Census Act of 1948, which gives the Union Government power to notify the exercise, appoint census officers and require every person to answer their questions, while making the answers confidential and not usable as evidence.