Uttar Pradesh Quiz: Minerals, Industries and One District One Product

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.

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

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

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 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.

The town has distilled flower oils in copper stills for centuries and is called the perfume capital of India, its ittar being carried in leather bottles and matured through the seasons.

The Mathura refinery of the Indian Oil Corporation is the only refinery in the state and was set up to serve the demand of the north western plains, with crude reaching it by pipeline.

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.

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.

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.