Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh is best known for the manufacture of which product?
- A.Locks and hardware
- B.Sports goods
- C.Terracotta
- D.Flutes
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, locks and hardware. 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 city is a node of the state defence industrial corridor for the same reason, that it already has metal working skill and small engineering units.
Option B, sports goods, belongs to Meerut, which also makes scissors and musical instruments. Option C, terracotta, is the product of Gorakhpur, where the potters of Aurangabad village make the painted clay figures. Option D, flutes, is the product of Pilibhit, which supplies bamboo flutes across the country. The four pairs are commonly shuffled in matching questions, so each should be learnt with its district.
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Practice Questions
View allLucknow city of Uttar Pradesh is famous for which of the following handloom production centers?
- A.Khadi Printing
- B.Saree
- C.Chikan Work
- D.Zari Dresses
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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.
Read the full explanation →Firozabad, a city in Uttar Pradesh, is famous for which of the following industries?
- A.Sari
- B.Cement
- C.Glass
- D.Locks
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Firozabad has made glass bangles, chandeliers and glassware for generations and is called the bangle city of India.
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- A.Mirzapur
- B.Sonbhadra
- C.Lalitpur
- D.Banda
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The Singrauli coalfield spreads across the border of Madhya Pradesh into Sonbhadra, and no other district of Uttar Pradesh has workable coal.
Read the full explanation →Which city of Uttar Pradesh is known as the Manchester of North India?
- A.Kanpur
- B.Agra
- C.Varanasi
- D.Meerut
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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.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the One District One Product scheme launched by the Uttar Pradesh government?
- A.2014
- B.2016
- C.2018
- D.2020
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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.
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