SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

The Yash Bharti Samman, instituted in 1994, is the highest civilian honour of Uttar Pradesh and has been conferred on writers, artists, musicians, sportspersons and others for distinguished achievement, with a cash award.

Uttar Pradesh gives its highest sporting honour under two names, the Laxman Award for men and the Rani Laxmi Bai Award for women, the latter named after the queen of Jhansi, a city of the state; both carry a cash prize and a citation.

Kunwar Digvijay Singh, called K. D. Singh Babu, came from Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh, won Olympic gold with the Indian hockey team at London in 1948 and at Helsinki in 1952, where he was the captain, and the Lucknow stadium carries his name.

The circuit was built at Greater Noida, which lies in the Gautam Buddh Nagar district next to Delhi, and it held the Indian Grand Prix in 2011, 2012 and 2013, the first of them won by Sebastian Vettel.

The Ekana stadium, named after Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee, stands at Gomti Nagar in Lucknow and is the largest and newest cricket ground of the state, used for international matches and for league cricket.

Green Park stands on the bank of the Ganga at Kanpur and has staged Test cricket since 1952, which makes it the oldest international ground in the state and also the home ground of the state cricket association.

In 2021 the award for the most outstanding sporting performance was renamed the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, so his name now attaches to two national honours, this one and the older Dhyan Chand Award for lifetime achievement.

The day marks the birth anniversary of Major Dhyan Chand, who was born on 29 August 1905 in Uttar Pradesh, and the national sports awards are conferred by the President on this day every year.

Dhyan Chand was born there on 29 August 1905, joined the army and rose to the rank of Major, and became the centre forward of the Indian teams that won three successive Olympic hockey gold medals.

Article 243E fixes a term of five years for every panchayat, requires the election to be completed before the term expires, and provides that where a panchayat is dissolved early the fresh body holds office only for the remainder of the original five year period, so dissolution cannot be used…

The Rajasthan Lokayukta and Up-Lokayuktas Act was passed in 1973, which places Rajasthan among the earliest states to set up the office after Maharashtra, and the Lokayukta inquires into allegations of corruption and abuse of office against ministers and other public servants, reporting to the Governor.

The Rajasthan Public Service Commission, constituted in 1949 and working under Article 315 of the Constitution, has its headquarters at Ajmer, from where it conducts the examinations and interviews for the state services, including the Rajasthan Administrative Service and the state education and police services.

The Gram Sabha is the general body of voters, not a committee of representatives, which is why it is called the village counterpart of the legislature; it considers the annual accounts and audit report, approves plans and beneficiary lists and carries out the social audit of works.

It requires the Governor of a state to constitute a State Finance Commission once in every five years to review the financial position of the panchayats and to recommend how the taxes, duties, tolls and fees of the state should be shared with them and what grants in aid they…

Article 243K requires every state to have a State Election Commission, headed by a State Election Commissioner appointed by the Governor, to superintend, direct and control the preparation of electoral rolls and the conduct of all elections to panchayats; Article 243ZA extends the same to municipal elections.

The Vikas Adhikari, known in general administration as the block development officer, is the government officer posted to a panchayat samiti to execute its resolutions, run the development schemes of the block and control its staff and accounts.

The panchayat samiti is the middle or block level tier, and its elected members choose one of themselves as Pradhan, with an Up-Pradhan as deputy.

The Eleventh Schedule, added by the 73rd Amendment, lists twenty nine subjects that a state may entrust to its panchayats, from agriculture, minor irrigation and rural housing to drinking water, primary education, health and the public distribution system; devolution of these subjects, along with funds and functionaries, is what decides…

The 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act of 1992 inserted Part IX with Articles 243 to 243O and the Eleventh Schedule, making regular elections, reservation and a fixed five year term binding on the states, and it came into force on 24 April 1993, now National Panchayati Raj Day.

This committee, which reported in 1957 after studying the working of the Community Development Programme, held that rural development could not succeed without participation, and recommended democratic decentralisation through elected bodies at three levels, the village panchayat, the panchayat samiti at the block and the zila parishad at the district.