Haryana was the first state in India to achieve which of the following?
- A.Full literacy
- B.Electricity in all its villages
- C.Setting up of a Lokayukta
- D.Holding of panchayat elections
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, electricity in all its villages. Within four years of its formation Haryana became the first state in India to carry electricity to every one of its villages, in 1970, and the achievement appears in almost every list of the state's firsts. Option A, full literacy, is wrong: Haryana's literacy in the Census of 2011 was 75.55 per cent, above the national figure but far from complete, and the state usually named for near total literacy is Kerala. Option C is wrong because the institution of the Lokayukta was first set up in Maharashtra, not in Haryana. Option D is wrong because panchayat elections had been held in several states long before Haryana existed, and Rajasthan is the state remembered for the inauguration of Panchayati Raj in 1959. So none of the three alternatives can stand against the electrification record.
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Practice Questions
View allHaryana is divided into how many revenue divisions?
- A.Four
- B.Five
- C.Six
- D.Seven
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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.
Read the full explanation →Charkhi 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.
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