SSC GK Questions 2026

The Bihar Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act was passed in 2006, after the central Act of 2003 and the recommendation of the Twelfth Finance Commission that states pass such laws to earn debt relief.

The amendment that brought in the Goods and Services Tax had to be ratified by the legislatures of at least half the states.

Bihar enforced total prohibition from 5 April 2016 and then enacted the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016, which bans the manufacture, trade, storage and consumption of liquor in the state.

The Barauni refinery of Indian Oil was commissioned in the 1960s at Barauni in Begusarai district with assistance from the Soviet Union, and around it grew the Barauni fertiliser plant and the Barauni thermal power station, making Begusarai the industrial hub of the state.

The Shahi Litchi of the Muzaffarpur belt in north Bihar received a geographical indication tag for its thin skin, small stone and high sugar content, and the district is often called the litchi capital, with the crop also grown in Vaishali, East Champaran and Samastipur.

Makhana, the gorgon nut or fox nut grown in the ponds and wetlands of the Mithila region, comes overwhelmingly from Bihar, and the produce of the region carries the geographical indication tag Mithila Makhana.

The Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000 created Jharkhand on 15 November 2000, and with the Chhotanagpur plateau Bihar lost its coal, iron ore, copper, bauxite and mica, along with the heavy industry at Jamshedpur, Bokaro and Ranchi.

Article 267(2) allows the legislature of a state to establish a Contingency Fund of the State by law, placed at the disposal of the Governor, from which advances can be made for unforeseen expenditure pending authorisation by the legislature, the amount being recouped later through a supplementary demand.

A budget is classified by the relation between receipts and expenditure, which gives three kinds only: a balanced budget, in which estimated receipts equal estimated expenditure; a surplus budget, in which receipts exceed expenditure; and a deficit budget, in which expenditure exceeds receipts.

Under Article 204 an Appropriation Bill is introduced after the Vidhan Sabha has voted the demands for grants, and it alone makes the withdrawal of money from the Consolidated Fund of the State lawful; no money may leave that fund except under an appropriation made by law.

Article 202 requires the Governor to cause a statement of the estimated receipts and expenditure of the state for every financial year, called the annual financial statement, to be laid before the House or Houses of the legislature.

For agricultural planning the state is divided into nine agro-climatic zones, which group districts by their soil, rainfall and cropping pattern so that advice on seed, irrigation and fertiliser can be given region by region; the Bhabar and Tarai belt, the western plain, the Bundelkhand zone and the eastern plain…

Cautley, an engineer of the Bengal Artillery, surveyed and built the Upper Ganga Canal, which took water from the Ganga at Haridwar across the Doab and was opened in 1854; it was the largest irrigation work of its time in the subcontinent.

Moradabad has worked brass for centuries and exports engraved and polished metal ware to many countries, which is why the city is called Peetal Nagri, the town of brass, and brass is its product under the One District One Product programme.

The Rihand dam stands on the Rihand river, a tributary of the Son, in Sonbhadra district, and its reservoir is named after Govind Ballabh Pant, the first chief minister of Uttar Pradesh; with the Obra and Anpara thermal stations nearby, the district is described as the energy capital of the…

A money bill can be introduced only in the Vidhan Sabha and only on the recommendation of the Governor; once passed there, it goes to the Vidhan Parishad, which may discuss it and recommend changes but must return it within fourteen days, failing which it is deemed passed in the…

It requires the Governor to cause a statement of the estimated receipts and expenditure of the state for each financial year to be laid before the House or Houses of the legislature, and that statement is what is popularly called the budget.

The Purvanchal Expressway runs east from the Lucknow district to Ghazipur, passing through the eastern districts of the state, and it was built to open up a region that had little fast road connection before.

The corridor announced for the state has six nodes, at Lucknow, Kanpur, Jhansi, Chitrakoot, Aligarh and Agra, and Varanasi, although a major city of the state, is not among them.

The state government launched the programme in January 2018, giving every district a flagship traditional product and offering its artisans and small units credit, training, common facilities and marketing support, and the idea was later taken up more widely at the national level.