State Exams GK Questions 2026

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.

Firozabad has been the centre of the Indian glass industry for more than a century, and its furnaces turn out bangles, chandeliers and glassware that are sold across the country; the trade is also the district product under the One District One Product programme.

Mills set up on the bank of the Ganga from the middle of the nineteenth century made Kanpur the first great industrial city of northern India, first in cotton textiles and army supplies and then in leather and tanning, and the nickname followed from the comparison with the mill town…

The fertile plain of western Uttar Pradesh, watered by canals and tube wells, carries the densest sugarcane tract in the country, and the state leads India both in cane grown and in sugar produced, with mills concentrated in Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur and Bijnor.

The mosar is held some days after the funeral and the whole community is invited, and because poor families often borrowed heavily to hold it, social reformers and the state have long urged that it be kept simple.

The desert is bitterly cold at night in the winter months, and the atamsukh, whose name suggests comfort to the self, is the long quilted coat worn over the usual clothes at that season.

Among the Bhil and Garasia communities the family of a person who dies in an accident or a quarrel demands a payment from the family held responsible, the amount being settled traditionally by the panchayat, and the administration has long discouraged the custom because unsettled claims turn into long feuds.

The timaniya is a broad neckpiece set with stones that is worn close to the throat, in the same family as the hansli, the aad, the mohanmala and the chandanhaar, all of them neck ornaments of Rajasthan.

On the night before a wedding, a naming or another household rite, the women of the family stay awake and sing songs in honour of the family deities; the word itself means keeping watch through the night.

The mother's brother arrives with clothes, ornaments and money for his sister and her children, and the occasion is treated as a binding obligation of the maternal family, celebrated with songs of its own.