Bihar GK Questions 2026

Bihar has a bicameral legislature, and a money bill as defined in Article 199 can be introduced only in the Vidhan Sabha, the lower House, and only on the recommendation of the Governor.

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.

Its location is convenient for industry because it lies close to National Highways 22 and 19 and Gaya airport is roughly 39 kilometres away, giving access to major industrial and commercial centres.

BIMCGL was incorporated on 6 January 2025 as the dedicated implementing agency for the Gaya cluster and will handle coordinated planning, infrastructure work, statutory clearances, utility connectivity and investor facilitation.

Those agreements were signed with prospective investors for roughly 300 acres of industrial land at the Gaya cluster, and the employment potential attached to them was estimated at 16,095.

The cluster is spread over about 1,670 acres in Dobhi block of Gaya district, and the Union government approved it on 28 August 2024 at a total cost of ₹1,339 crore including the cost of land.

Article 243I requires the Governor of a state to constitute a Finance Commission at the end of every fifth year 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, what grants-in-aid they should…

The Twelfth Schedule was inserted by the 74th Amendment Act, 1992 and lists 18 subjects that a state legislature may entrust to municipalities under Article 243W, including urban planning and town planning, regulation of land use, water supply, public health and sanitation, slum improvement, urban poverty alleviation, fire services, burials…

Article 243Q provides three kinds of municipality: a Nagar Panchayat for a transitional area, that is an area turning from rural into urban, a Municipal Council, the Nagar Parishad, for a smaller urban area, and a Municipal Corporation, the Nagar Nigam, for a larger urban area.

Article 243K for panchayats and Article 243ZA for municipalities vest the superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of electoral rolls and the conduct of these elections in a State Election Commission consisting of a State Election Commissioner appointed by the Governor.