Haryana is divided into how many revenue divisions?
- A.Four
- B.Five
- C.Six
- D.Seven
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, six. Haryana is administered as six revenue divisions, namely Ambala, Rohtak, Hisar, Gurugram, Karnal and Faridabad, each headed by a Divisional Commissioner of the Indian Administrative Service who supervises the Deputy Commissioners of the districts under that division. Option A, four, was the correct figure for many years, because the state ran with only the Ambala, Rohtak, Gurgaon and Hisar divisions; Karnal and Faridabad were created later and took the count to six, which makes four the commonest wrong answer to this question. Option B, five, matches no stage of the state's administrative history and is only a step placed between the old figure and the present one. Option D, seven, is the number of districts Haryana began with in 1966, that is Ambala, Gurgaon, Hisar, Jind, Karnal, Mahendragarh and Rohtak, and it is offered here to catch a candidate who confuses the first districts with the divisions.
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Practice Questions
View allCharkhi Dadri became the twenty-second district of Haryana in which year?
- A.2005
- B.2008
- C.2012
- D.2016
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The Government of Haryana notified Charkhi Dadri, carved out of Bhiwani district, as the twenty-second district of the state on 1 December 2016, and it remains the newest district.
Read the full explanation →The headquarters of which district of Haryana is at Narnaul?
- A.Rewari
- B.Mahendragarh
- C.Bhiwani
- D.Charkhi Dadri
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Mahendragarh is the one district of Haryana whose headquarters does not sit in the town after which the district is named: its administration works from Narnaul, while Mahendragarh town is a tehsil headquarters within the same district.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following districts does NOT belong to the Ambala division?
- A.Panchkula
- B.Kurukshetra
- C.Yamunanagar
- D.Kaithal
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Kaithal belongs to the Karnal division along with Karnal and Panipat, and not to the Ambala division. The Ambala division is made up of four districts, Ambala, Kurukshetra, Panchkula and Yamunanagar, so Options A, B and C are all part of it and cannot be the answer.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest district of Haryana in area?
- A.Bhiwani
- B.Sirsa
- C.Hisar
- D.Fatehabad
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Sirsa, in the south-west of the state on the Punjab and Rajasthan borders, is the largest district of Haryana by area and also the least densely peopled.
Read the full explanation →Which district of Haryana was carved out of Bhiwani district?
- A.Palwal
- B.Nuh
- C.Charkhi Dadri
- D.Jhajjar
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Charkhi Dadri was carved out of Bhiwani district and notified as the twenty-second district of Haryana on 1 December 2016; both districts now lie in the Rohtak division.
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