SSC GD Constable GK Questions 2026

Indian forces entered Goa, Daman and Diu on 18 and 19 December 1961 in Operation Vijay, Portuguese rule of four and a half centuries ended, and Goa was administered as a union territory until it became the twenty-fifth state of India in 1987, with Konkani recognised as its official language.

The Balwantrai Mehta Committee of 1957 recommended democratic decentralisation through a three-tier structure of the gram panchayat, the panchayat samiti and the zila parishad, and Nehru inaugurated the scheme at Nagaur on 2 October 1959, which makes Rajasthan the first state to adopt Panchayati Raj.

The Second Five Year Plan, which ran from 1956 to 1961, was built on the two-sector model of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis and gave the first place to heavy and basic industry; the public sector steel plants at Bhilai, Rourkela and Durgapur belong to this plan, and the Industrial Policy Resolution…

The Bombay Reorganisation Act divided the bilingual state of Bombay into Maharashtra, with Bombay as its capital, and Gujarat, with Ahmedabad and later Gandhinagar as its capital, and the day is observed as Maharashtra Day and Gujarat Day.

The Act came into force on 1 November 1956 and, along with the Seventh Amendment of the same year, ended the old classification of Part A, Part B, Part C and Part D states that the Constitution had set out in 1950, leaving fourteen states and six union territories.

The States Reorganisation Commission was appointed in December 1953 under Justice Fazl Ali, with the historian and diplomat K. M. Panikkar and the educationist H. N. Kunzru as its two members, and its report of 1955 accepted language as a basis for reorganisation while rejecting the formula of one language…

He fasted for a separate Telugu-speaking state and died on 15 December 1952 on the fifty-eighth day of the fast; the protests that followed forced the government to announce Andhra State, which was created on 1 October 1953 as the first state formed on a linguistic basis, with Kurnool as…

The States Department was created in July 1947 with Patel as the minister in charge and V. P. Menon as its secretary, and the pair persuaded the rulers to sign the Instrument of Accession, which is why Patel is remembered as the Iron Man of India and his birthday is…

The Nizam of Hyderabad signed a Standstill Agreement in November 1947 and then delayed accession while the Razakar militia terrorised the countryside; the Indian government sent in troops from 13 to 18 September 1948 in an action called Operation Polo, after which Hyderabad acceded to India.

The Narmada flows west down the rift valley between the Vindhya and the Satpura, crosses Gujarat and empties into the Gulf of Khambhat on the Arabian Sea through a broad estuary.

The Ken-Betwa link takes surplus water from the Ken, which is the river with the larger supply, and carries it by canal to the Betwa basin.

The Wainganga rises in the Seoni district of the Satpura and flows south through Balaghat into Maharashtra, where it joins the Wardha to form the Pranhita, a tributary of the Godavari.

At Bhedaghat, a short distance from Jabalpur, the Narmada falls over a ledge as the Dhuandhar, so called because the spray rises like smoke, and then runs for a few kilometres between white and pink marble cliffs, the Marble Rocks.

The Sardar Sarovar is the terminal dam of the Narmada valley scheme, in Gujarat, and its reservoir submerges villages upstream in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

The tribunal was constituted in 1969 under the Inter-State River Water Disputes Act to settle the sharing of the Narmada, and it delivered its award in 1979, dividing the river's water among Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan and fixing the height and the rehabilitation terms of the Sardar Sarovar.

The Gandhi Sagar dam is the uppermost of the four works of the Chambal valley project and stands on the Chambal in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh.

The Bansagar dam is on the Son near Deolond in Shahdol district, in the Baghelkhand country of north-eastern Madhya Pradesh, and the project is a joint venture of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, which is why the same dam turns up in the question papers of all three states.

The Indira Sagar dam stands on the Narmada at Narmadanagar, near Punasa in Khandwa district, and its reservoir holds the largest volume of water of any reservoir in the country.

Bargi stands on the Narmada in Jabalpur district, in the upper part of the valley, and it was the first of the big dams of the Narmada valley scheme to be finished.

The Tawa rises in the Satpura, drains the Pachmarhi and Betul country and joins the Narmada at Bandrabhan in Narmadapuram district; it is the largest of the Narmada's tributaries.