Bihar GK Questions 2026

The Gandak rises in Nepal, where it is called the Narayani or the Sapt Gandaki, enters Bihar at Valmikinagar in West Champaran and flows south-east to meet the Ganga at Sonpur, across the river from Patna.

The Ganga comes into Bihar from Uttar Pradesh near Chausa, flows from west to east for about 445 kilometres and leaves the state for West Bengal near Rajmahal, splitting Bihar into the North Bihar plain and the South Bihar plain on the way.

The Kosi earns the name because it brings an exceptionally heavy load of silt down from Nepal, drops it the moment it reaches the flat North Bihar plain, raises its own bed above the surrounding land and then breaks out into a new channel.

The campaign is to be organised across all states from 22 October to 30 November 2026, and the minister asked state governments and the authorities concerned to take part actively so that it reaches farmers.

The scheme was designed for one hundred districts selected on three measures: low agricultural productivity, low cropping intensity and limited disbursement of agricultural credit.

The correct answer is Gaya in Bihar, which secured first position among the best-performing districts when the scheme completed its first year.

Bihar, together with Odisha, was separated from the Bengal Presidency and constituted as a new province on 22 March 1912, with Patna as its capital.

Bihar measures about 345 kilometres from north to south and about 483 kilometres from east to west, so it is a broad band lying across the Ganga rather than a tall state.

The Kaimur plateau is a block of Vindhyan sandstone that continues into Bihar from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh and occupies the south-western corner of the state in Rohtas and Kaimur districts.

A chaur, also called a maun, is a shallow saucer-shaped depression in the north Bihar plain, left behind when a silt-laden river abandons a channel and raises the land around it.

The southern plateau districts of Bihar became the state of Jharkhand on 15 November 2000, the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda, under the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000.

The Son rises on the Amarkantak plateau in Madhya Pradesh, flows north-east through the hard rock country of the south and joins the Ganga near Maner, west of Patna.

The Kosi rises in the Himalaya, carries an enormous load of silt and deposits it on the almost flat plain of north Bihar, raising its own bed until it breaks out and takes a new course.

The Someshwar hills form the narrow Shivalik belt in the extreme north-west of Bihar, with flat valleys called duns lying between the ridges, and Someshwar peak, about 880 metres, is the highest point of the state.

The Ganga enters Bihar near Chausa in Buxar district, flows from west to east for about 445 kilometres and leaves the state near Rajmahal.

Bihar has an international boundary of about 726 kilometres with Nepal along its entire northern edge, and the rivers that make north Bihar fertile and flood-prone, the Gandak, Bagmati, Kamla Balan and Kosi, all cross that boundary into the state.

Stated exactly, Bihar lies between 24 degrees 20 minutes 10 seconds north and 27 degrees 31 minutes 15 seconds north latitude, and between 83 degrees 19 minutes 50 seconds east and 88 degrees 17 minutes 40 seconds east longitude.

Bihar covers 94,163 square kilometres, which makes it the twelfth largest state of India by area, although it stands third in population after Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Like the Rajya Sabha, a Legislative Council is a continuing body: it is not subject to dissolution, each member holds office for six years, and one-third of the members retire every second year, so the house is renewed in stages.

Article 170 provides that the Legislative Assembly of a state shall consist of not more than five hundred and not fewer than sixty members chosen by direct election from territorial constituencies, with lower minimums permitted by law for small states such as Goa, Sikkim and Mizoram.