SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The plant stands at Govindpura in Bhopal and was set up in the 1950s as Heavy Electricals India Limited with British collaboration, before it became part of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited.

Pithampur stands in Dhar district, about thirty kilometres south-west of Indore city, and its vehicle and auto component plants earned it the name Detroit of India.

It acquires and develops land for industrial estates and industrial model townships, allots plots to entrepreneurs, provides water, power and internal roads and runs common facilities, and it is the body named in questions on industrial infrastructure of the state.

Haryana has no coal and no petroleum of its own; its thermal power stations run on coal railed in from the eastern coalfields and its refinery on crude piped from the Gujarat coast.

Manesar is in Gurugram district on the Delhi-Jaipur highway, and the industrial model township developed there holds car, motorcycle, component and electronics plants as well as logistics parks.

Hisar has a large stainless steel and steel pipe industry and is counted as the steel town of the state, which is notable because Haryana has no iron ore worth mining and the raw material has to be brought in.

Bahadurgarh stands on the Delhi border on the Rohtak road and holds a large number of footwear units along with ceramic, tile and sanitaryware factories, besides engineering and packaging works.

Ambala, and Ambala Cantt in particular, has a cluster of workshops making laboratory glassware and apparatus, surgical and dental instruments, weighing and measuring devices and household mixers, and it supplies schools, colleges and hospitals across the country.

Jagadhri, now part of the Yamunanagar urban area, has an old industry of brass, bronze and other metal utensils, with rolling, beating and polishing done in workshops across the town, and its market supplies vessels to north India.

Hundreds of plywood and veneer units work in and around Yamunanagar and Jagadhri, giving the district the largest cluster of this industry in the country.

Panipat weaves durries, carpets, blankets and furnishing fabrics for the home and export markets, and it is also the largest centre in India for pulling old woollen clothing into fibre and spinning it again into yarn, a trade for which the city is known across the world.

The Indian Oil refinery at Baholi in Panipat district was commissioned in the late nineteen nineties and was later expanded with a petrochemical complex; it is supplied with crude through a pipeline from the Gujarat coast and sends its products to north India.

Faridabad has the largest concentration of factories in the state, making tractors, refrigerators, tyres, switchgear, garments and a very wide range of auto components, and it is also the most populous city of Haryana.

Under the scheme the state pays an incentive per acre to farmers in blocks where groundwater has fallen deepest if they sow maize, pulses, cotton, bajra or other dry crops in place of paddy, and it links the help to registration of the crop on the state portal.

The Central Soil Salinity Research Institute of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research is at Karnal.

The land in Bhiwani, Charkhi Dadri, Mahendragarh and Rewari rises above the level of the main canals, so water has to be pumped to it in stages.

These western districts lie outside the command of the Yamuna canals, so their supply comes from the Sutlej through the Bhakra Nangal works: the Bhakra Main Line and the Narwana branch carry it into Hisar, Fatehabad, Sirsa and parts of Jind and Bhiwani, and it is this water that turned…

In check or check basin irrigation the field is levelled and divided into small rectangular plots, each enclosed by low bunds or levees, and water is let into one plot at a time until the required depth stands in it.

A sprinkler breaks water into drops and spreads it like rain, so the field does not have to be levelled and no flowing sheet of water is needed.

The agreement signed in 1981 between Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan reallocated the surplus Ravi and Beas waters, and Haryana's share was fixed at roughly 3.5 million acre feet, to be carried by the proposed Sutlej Yamuna Link canal.