Jharkhand was created under which Act of Parliament?
- A.Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000
- B.Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000
- C.States Reorganisation Act, 1956
- D.Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000. Parliament passed this law under Article 3 of the Constitution, which lets it form a new state by separating territory from an existing one, and Jharkhand came into being on 15 November 2000. The Act also settled the division of assets, liabilities, services and institutions between the two states and provided for the Jharkhand High Court at Ranchi.
Option A is wrong because the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 created Chhattisgarh. Option C is wrong because the States Reorganisation Act of 1956 redrew boundaries on language lines and in fact rejected the Jharkhand demand at that time. Option D is wrong because the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 created Uttaranchal, now Uttarakhand. All three Acts were passed in the same year, so the way to keep them apart is to read the name of the parent state in the title of each Act.
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Practice Questions
View allIn which year was Bihar separated from the Bengal Presidency to form a new province?
- A.1905
- B.1912
- C.1936
- D.1947
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The Province of Bihar and Orissa came into being on 22 March 1912, with Patna as its capital and Sir Charles Stuart Bayley as its first Lieutenant Governor.
Read the full explanation →Bihar Diwas is celebrated every year on which date?
- A.1 April
- B.22 March
- C.15 November
- D.12 December
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Bihar Diwas marks 22 March 1912, the day the Province of Bihar and Orissa was brought into existence and Bihar stopped being a part of the Bengal Presidency.
Read the full explanation →Who is regarded as the architect of the movement for a separate Bihar province?
- A.Rajendra Prasad
- B.Anugrah Narayan Sinha
- C.Sachchidananda Sinha
- D.Mazharul Haque
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He argued the case for separation in print, most notably in his 1906 pamphlet on the partition of Bengal and the separation of Bihar, used the press and the Bihari Students Conference to build opinion, and pressed the demand before the colonial government.
Read the full explanation →Orissa was separated from the Province of Bihar and Orissa in which year, and under which law?
- A.1919, under the Government of India Act, 1919
- B.1936, under the Government of India Act, 1935
- C.1947, under the Indian Independence Act
- D.1956, under the States Reorganisation Act
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The Act of 1935 reorganised several provinces, and on 1 April 1936 Orissa was constituted as a separate province, leaving Bihar on its own.
Read the full explanation →Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar on which date?
- A.1 November 2000
- B.9 November 2000
- C.15 November 2000
- D.22 March 2000
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Jharkhand came into being on that day under the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000, with Ranchi as its capital, Babulal Marandi as first Chief Minister and eighteen districts taken from Bihar.
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