The Mera Pani Meri Virasat scheme of Haryana was launched with which objective?
- A.To encourage farmers to shift land out of paddy and save groundwater
- B.To give a pension to farmers above sixty
- C.To set up cold storages in every district
- D.To distribute free electricity connections in villages
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, to encourage farmers to shift land out of paddy and save groundwater. Decades of the paddy and wheat rotation have pushed the water table down sharply in central Haryana, and many blocks are classed as over exploited. Under this scheme the state pays an incentive per acre to a farmer who sows maize, bajra, pulses, cotton or an orchard in place of paddy, so that less groundwater is pumped in the kharif season.
Option B describes a pension, which belongs to social security schemes, not to water policy. Option C describes storage infrastructure, built under separate horticulture and market schemes. Option D describes rural electrification, which was largely completed long before. The examiner wants the link between the name, which means my water is my heritage, and the purpose, which is crop diversification to save groundwater.
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Practice Questions
View allHaryana came into existence as a separate state on which date?
- A.1 November 1956
- B.1 November 1966
- C.1 April 1966
- D.15 August 1966
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Haryana was carved out of the Hindi speaking districts of the former state of Punjab on that day, and the date is observed every year as Haryana Day.
Read the full explanation →The dwarf high yielding wheat varieties that began the Green Revolution in India were first bred in which country?
- A.Mexico
- B.Japan
- C.Australia
- D.Soviet Union
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The dwarf wheat varieties Lerma Rojo and Sonora 64 were bred in Mexico at the research programme where Norman Borlaug worked, and seed of these varieties was imported into India in the mid nineteen sixties.
Read the full explanation →Who is known as the father of the Green Revolution in India?
- A.Verghese Kurien
- B.M. S. Swaminathan
- C.Norman Borlaug
- D.C. Subramaniam
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He was the geneticist who brought the Mexican dwarf wheat to India, worked with Indian breeders to adapt it, and persuaded the government and the farmers to take it up, so he is called the father of the Green Revolution in India.
Read the full explanation →Which crop led the first phase of the Green Revolution in India?
- A.Rice
- B.Wheat
- C.Cotton
- D.Sugarcane
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The first high yielding varieties available to Indian farmers were dwarf wheats, and they were planted in the irrigated north western plains where water and fertiliser could be supplied on time.
Read the full explanation →Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, one of the largest agricultural universities in Asia, is located at which place?
- A.Karnal
- B.Hisar
- C.Rohtak
- D.Kurukshetra
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The agricultural university of Haryana was set up at Hisar soon after the state was formed and was later named after Chaudhary Charan Singh.
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