The One District One Product programme of Uttar Pradesh was launched in which year?
- A.2016
- B.2017
- C.2018
- D.2019
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, 2018. The Uttar Pradesh government launched the One District One Product programme in January 2018, picking one traditional product for every district and backing it with credit, design, packaging, skill and marketing support so that the craft could be sold outside its own market. Chikankari for Lucknow, brass for Moradabad, glass for Firozabad, carpets for Bhadohi, attar for Kannauj and black pottery for Azamgarh are the examples most often quoted.
Options A, B and D give years close to the right one, which is how a straightforward date question is usually built. The point worth remembering beyond the year is the sequence: the state scheme came first and the idea was afterwards taken up at the national level, where districts across the country were asked to identify a similar flagship product. A question may ask which state began the ODOP idea, and the answer is Uttar Pradesh.
Read the full article: Handicrafts and GI Tags of Uttar Pradesh: District List
Practice Questions
View allThe chikankari style of embroidery is traditionally associated with which city of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Varanasi
- B.Lucknow
- C.Agra
- D.Bareilly
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Chikankari is the shadow embroidery of Lucknow, worked in white thread on fine cotton, muslin or chiffon, and its stitches, tepchi, bakhiya, murri, phanda and jaali, are learnt as a set.
Read the full explanation →Which city of Uttar Pradesh is called Peetal Nagri, the brass city of India?
- A.Moradabad
- B.Firozabad
- C.Aligarh
- D.Khurja
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Moradabad has worked brass for centuries into engraved, enamelled and lacquered vessels, lamps and decorative ware, and the trade gave it the name Peetal Nagri.
Read the full explanation →Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh is famous for the manufacture of which product?
- A.Carpets
- B.Attar and perfume
- C.Glass bangles
- D.Black pottery
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Kannauj is called the perfume capital of India. Its distillers work by the deg and bhapka method, in which flower petals, herbs or sandalwood are heated in copper vessels over a wood fire and the vapour is condensed into a receiver containing sandalwood oil.
Read the full explanation →Khurja, known for its glazed pottery and holding a GI tag, lies in which district of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Bulandshahr
- B.Hapur
- C.Meerut
- D.Mathura
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Khurja is a town in Bulandshahr district of western Uttar Pradesh, and its thick glazed pottery, painted in bright floral patterns on a white ground, is sold as Khurja pottery and is a registered geographical indication.
Read the full explanation →The black pottery of Nizamabad, a registered GI craft, belongs to which district of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Ghazipur
- B.Azamgarh
- C.Jaunpur
- D.Mau
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Nizamabad is a town in Azamgarh district, and its potters make thin walled black pottery that is rubbed with mustard oil, fired in a closed kiln so that the smoke blackens the clay, and then decorated with silver-coloured patterns applied with a zinc and mercury paste.
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