The Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign was launched in January 2015 from which city of Haryana?
- A.Panipat
- B.Gurugram
- C.Kurukshetra
- D.Sonipat
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Panipat. The national campaign Beti Bachao Beti Padhao was launched from Panipat on 22 January 2015 to check the decline in the child sex ratio and to promote the education of girls. Haryana was chosen for the launch because its sex ratio, recorded at 879 females for every thousand males in the Census of 2011, was among the lowest in the country, and districts of the state were among the first taken up under the scheme.
Option B, Gurugram, is the industrial and technology centre of the state but not the launch site. Option C, Kurukshetra, is associated with religious and cultural events such as the Gita Jayanti Mahotsav. Option D, Sonipat, holds several universities but had no part in the launch. Panipat is the answer, and the same city is also known for handloom furnishings and for the three historic battles fought on its plain.
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Practice Questions
View allHaryana was established as a separate state of India on which date?
- A.1 November 1956
- B.1 November 1966
- C.1 May 1960
- D.15 August 1947
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On that day the Hindi speaking districts of the former Punjab were separated to form Haryana, which became the seventeenth state of India, while Chandigarh was made a union territory serving as the capital of both states.
Read the full explanation →The creation of Haryana as a separate state followed the recommendation of which commission?
- A.Dhar Commission
- B.Fazl Ali Commission
- C.Shah Commission
- D.Sarkaria Commission
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The commission headed by Justice J. C. Shah was appointed in 1966 to decide how the Punjab should be divided on a linguistic basis, and its report fixed which districts and tehsils would go to Haryana, which would remain with Punjab and which would form Chandigarh and the hill areas…
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Chief Minister of Haryana?
- A.Bansi Lal
- B.Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
- C.Devi Lal
- D.Rao Birender Singh
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He took office as the first Chief Minister when the state was created on 1 November 1966, and Dharma Vira was its first Governor.
Read the full explanation →Rakhigarhi, the largest Harappan site in India, is situated in which district of Haryana?
- A.Hisar
- B.Fatehabad
- C.Bhiwani
- D.Rohtak
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Rakhigarhi lies in the Hisar district on the dry bed of an old river course, and its mounds spread over a larger area than any other Harappan site in India, which makes it the biggest in the country.
Read the full explanation →The Third Battle of Panipat, fought in 1761, was between the Marathas and which power?
- A.Babur's Mughal army
- B.Nadir Shah of Persia
- C.Ahmad Shah Abdali of Afghanistan
- D.The English East India Company
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The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in January 1761 between the Maratha army, led by Sadashivrao Bhau with Vishwasrao, and the Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Abdali, who had the support of the Rohillas and the Nawab of Awadh.
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