Static GK decides most of the General Awareness score in SSC exams. The CGL, CHSL and CPO notices describe it in almost the same words: questions on India and its neighbouring countries in History, Culture, Geography, the Economic Scene, General Policy and Scientific Research, and on everyday observation in its scientific aspect. The GD notice adds Sports, General Polity and the Indian Constitution, and the MTS notice lists Social Studies, General Science and Environmental Studies up to the 10th Standard. This page brings together GK24's GK notes and practice questions tagged for all five SSC exams. The notes follow a subject-wise syllabus, one topic per note in English and Hindi: Indian Polity, Indian History, Geography, Indian Economy, General Science, Environment and Ecology, Art and Culture, Computer, Sports, Awards and Honours, Books and Authors, Days and Dates, and Static GK. Each note is written as short facts and tables so that a topic can be revised in one sitting, and each ends with multiple-choice questions and explanations. The level is what changes between exams: read MTS and GD topics at Class 10 depth, CHSL at Class 12 depth, and CGL and CPO at graduate depth, where questions ask for the article number or the year rather than the broad idea. Start with Polity, History and Geography, which fill the most questions in past papers in GK24's reading, then move to the Economy and Science. After each note, solve its questions here and your exam's previous-year questions on its own page.
Which of the following minerals is not found in Haryana?
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.
Read the full explanation →The industrial model township of Manesar, with vehicle and electronics plants, lies in which district?
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.
Read the full explanation →Which city is known as the steel town of Haryana?
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.
Read the full explanation →Bahadurgarh in Jhajjar district, called the gateway of Haryana, is known for which industries?
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.
Read the full explanation →The manufacture of scientific, laboratory and surgical instruments in Haryana is concentrated at
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.
Read the full explanation →Jagadhri in Haryana is famous for the manufacture of
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.
Read the full explanation →Which district of Haryana is known as the plywood capital of 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.
Read the full explanation →Panipat is called the city of weavers because of its
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.
Read the full explanation →The oil refinery of Haryana is located at Baholi in which district?
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.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest industrial city of Haryana?
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.
Read the full explanation →The Mera Pani Meri Virasat scheme of Haryana encourages farmers to
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.
Read the full explanation →The Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, which works on reclaiming saline and waterlogged land, is located at
The Central Soil Salinity Research Institute of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research is at Karnal.
Read the full explanation →The Jawaharlal Nehru lift canal and the Loharu lift canal were built to irrigate which part of Haryana?
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.
Read the full explanation →The Bhakra Main Line and its Narwana branch bring canal water mainly to which districts of Haryana?
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…
Read the full explanation →In which method of irrigation is the entire field divided into a number of levelled plots surrounded by levees?
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.
Read the full explanation →Sprinkler irrigation system is suitable for
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.
Read the full explanation →Under the 1981 agreement on the Ravi and Beas waters, Haryana's share was fixed at about
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.
Read the full explanation →The foundation stone of the Sutlej Yamuna Link canal was laid in 1982 at Kapoori village by
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of the canal in 1982 at Kapoori in Patiala district, after the 1981 agreement between Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan on the sharing of the Ravi and Beas waters.
Read the full explanation →The Agra Canal and the Gurgaon Canal take off from the Yamuna at
Both canals are headed at the Okhla barrage on the Yamuna below Delhi.
Read the full explanation →The Western Yamuna Canal was originally cut during the reign of which ruler?
The Delhi sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq had a canal cut from the Yamuna in the fourteenth century to carry water westwards towards Hisar, where he founded Hisar Firoza, and that channel is the ancestor of today's Western Yamuna Canal.
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