State Exams GK Questions 2026

Ladli Behna sets no educational condition at all; it is unconditional income support for adult women and its tests are of residence, age and family means only.

Running since 2006, it gives financial assistance for the marriage of daughters of poor families and holds community marriage ceremonies at which several couples are married together, which keeps the cost to the family low.

The Mukhyamantri Seekho-Kamao Yojana places young people aged about 18 to 29 as trainees in registered establishments and pays them a monthly stipend in the range of Rs 8,000 to Rs 10,000 while they learn, so that training carries an income and the trainee is not forced to drop out.

Madhya Pradesh introduced the Mukhyamantri Kisan Kalyan Yojana in 2020 as a state top-up paid in instalments to farmers who are already eligible beneficiaries of the central PM-KISAN income support, so a farmer in the state receives both amounts and the state uses the central beneficiary list for verification.

The instalment goes straight into the woman's own Aadhaar-linked bank account by DBT, and the state fixed the 10th of the month as the transfer day so that the payment is predictable and can be tracked.

The scheme's means test sets the family's annual income ceiling below Rs 2.5 lakh, and alongside it no member of the family may be an income-tax payer or in regular government service, the family may not hold more than five acres of land, and it may not own a four-wheeler…

Both schemes are run by this department, which uses its anganwadi network and project offices to register beneficiaries, verify eligibility and handle grievances, and both have their own portals under it.

The scheme was launched on 5 March 2023; applications were then taken from 25 March 2023 at camps in wards and gram panchayats, and the first instalment was transferred on 10 June 2023 at a state function in Jabalpur.

The Mukhyamantri Ladli Behna Yojana began on 5 March 2023 with a transfer of Rs 1,000 a month, that is Rs 12,000 a year, paid directly into the woman's own Aadhaar-linked bank account.

The lump sum of Rs 1,00,000 is released after the beneficiary completes 21 years, and two conditions attach to it: she must have passed Class 12 and she must not have been married before the age of 18.

The state buys National Savings Certificates of Rs 6,000 a year for the first five years after registration, and these mature into a total assured benefit of Rs 1,18,000 that is released in stages linked to the girl's schooling: Rs 2,000 in Class 6, Rs 4,000 in Class 9, Rs…

The Government of Madhya Pradesh launched the Ladli Laxmi Yojana on 1 April 2007 to improve the sex ratio and to strengthen the position of the girl child in the family, and the Department of Women and Child Development has run it since through anganwadi centres.

Launched in 2020, Mera Pani Meri Virasat offers an incentive per acre to farmers in blocks where groundwater has fallen sharply if they replace water-hungry paddy with crops such as maize, pulses, cotton or vegetables, or take up agroforestry; the aim is crop diversification to save the aquifer.

The company's long-standing Haryana plants are at Gurugram and at Manesar, which lies on the Delhi-Jaipur highway in the same district and grew into an industrial model township around the car plant and its component suppliers, making the Gurugram-Manesar belt the centre of India's passenger car making.

Haryana enacted its Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act in 2005, following the Twelfth Finance Commission's advice that states pass such laws to qualify for debt relief; the Act commits the state to keep its fiscal deficit within about 3 per cent of gross state domestic product, to eliminate the…

Article 293 allows a state to borrow within India on the security of its Consolidated Fund, within limits set by its legislature, and requires the consent of the Government of India for any further borrowing while a loan made by or guaranteed by the Centre is still outstanding, a clause…

After the legislature votes the demands for grants, an Appropriation Bill is introduced under Article 204 to authorise withdrawal from the Consolidated Fund of the State for the granted sums and for the charged expenditure, and no money may leave that fund without such an Act.

Article 202 requires the Governor to cause the Annual Financial Statement, the estimated receipts and expenditure of the state for a financial year, to be laid before the House or Houses of the legislature, and this statement is what is called the budget of Haryana.

The Panipat refinery, commissioned in 1998, is an Indian Oil refinery and is the only refinery in Haryana; a naphtha cracker and petrochemical complex were later built alongside it, which makes Panipat an energy and petrochemical centre as well as a textile town.

Panipat is called the city of weavers and is a national centre for handloom products such as blankets, carpets, durries and furnishings, much of it made from recycled yarn, and the trade grew after refugee weavers settled there following Partition.