Which district of Uttar Pradesh is the main centre of hand knotted carpet weaving?
- A.Moradabad
- B.Saharanpur
- C.Bhadohi
- D.Bulandshahr
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, Bhadohi. The town and the villages around it, together with neighbouring Mirzapur, form the largest hand knotted carpet belt of India and export most of what they weave. Carpet is the One District One Product of Bhadohi, and the cluster has its own carpet institute and export promotion body, which papers sometimes mention.
Option A, Moradabad, is the brass and metal ware city, known as the city of brass. Option B, Saharanpur, is the wood carving town of the state, its sheesham furniture and lattice work being its district product. Option D, Bulandshahr, is the district of Khurja, whose glazed pottery and ceramics are its product. All four are craft districts, so the question is really a test of the ODOP list, where each pair must be fixed separately.
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Practice Questions
View allLucknow city of Uttar Pradesh is famous for which of the following handloom production centers?
- A.Khadi Printing
- B.Saree
- C.Chikan Work
- D.Zari Dresses
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Chikankari is the fine white shadow work embroidery of Lucknow, done with untwisted thread on muslin, cotton and georgette, and it carries a geographical indication tag in the name of the city.
Read the full explanation →Firozabad, a city in Uttar Pradesh, is famous for which of the following industries?
- A.Sari
- B.Cement
- C.Glass
- D.Locks
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Firozabad has made glass bangles, chandeliers and glassware for generations and is called the bangle city of India.
Read the full explanation →Which is the only coal producing district of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Mirzapur
- B.Sonbhadra
- C.Lalitpur
- D.Banda
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The Singrauli coalfield spreads across the border of Madhya Pradesh into Sonbhadra, and no other district of Uttar Pradesh has workable coal.
Read the full explanation →Which city of Uttar Pradesh is known as the Manchester of North India?
- A.Kanpur
- B.Agra
- C.Varanasi
- D.Meerut
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The city grew in the nineteenth century as the cotton and woollen mill town of the Ganga plain, with army supply orders behind it, and the tanneries of Jajmau grew beside the mills.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the One District One Product scheme launched by the Uttar Pradesh government?
- A.2014
- B.2016
- C.2018
- D.2020
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The scheme was announced on Uttar Pradesh Day, 24 January 2018, and chose one traditional product for each district so that help with design, credit, common facility centres, packaging and marketing could be concentrated instead of scattered.
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