Static GK is the largest part of General Studies in every state exam, and most of it is national. Indian polity, history and the national movement, geography of India, the Indian economy and general science appear in the syllabus of UPPSC PCS and PET, BPSC and BSSC, RPSC and RSSB, MPPSC and MPESB, HPSC and HSSC, and DSSSB and Delhi Police. The level changes from exam to exam. PET sets its subjects at NCERT secondary and senior secondary level, BSSC asks matric-level science, and RPSC sets the RAS Prelims at Bachelor's degree standard. This page brings together GK24's topic-wise GK notes tagged for state exams. Each note covers one topic in English and Hindi, as short facts and tables that can be revised in one sitting, and ends with multiple-choice questions and explanations. Start with Polity, History and Geography, then move to the Economy and Science. GK24 does not have state GK sections. As guidance, use these notes for the national part and prepare your state's history, geography, culture, economy and schemes from state board textbooks, the state budget and economic survey, and the commission's past papers. After each note, take its topic quiz and mark what you got wrong.
The decadal growth of population of Bihar between 2001 and 2011 was:
Bihar grew by 25.42 per cent between the censuses of 2001 and 2011, the fastest among the large states of India, which is why its share in the population of the country keeps rising.
Read the full explanation →Which state recorded the lowest literacy rate in the Census of 2011?
Bihar had a literacy rate of 61.80 per cent in 2011, the lowest of any state, with male literacy at 71.20 per cent and female literacy at 51.50 per cent, so barely half the women of the state were counted as literate.
Read the full explanation →Which state had the highest density of population in the Census of 2011?
Bihar recorded 1,106 persons per square kilometre in 2011, the highest of any state, because the alluvial plain of the Ganga is fertile, level and watered, and the state has very little forest or hill to thin the settlement.
Read the full explanation →According to the Census of 2011, Bihar was which most populous state of India?
Bihar had 10,40,99,452 people in 2011, about 10.41 crore, which placed it third after Uttar Pradesh with about 19.98 crore and Maharashtra with about 11.24 crore.
Read the full explanation →The Mughal Gardens of Rashtrapati Bhavan, designed by Edwin Lutyens, were renamed in 2023 as:
The gardens behind Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi were designed by Edwin Lutyens, who combined the Mughal charbagh plan of water channels and terraces with English flower beds and lawns, and they were long called the Mughal Gardens.
Read the full explanation →The Rock Garden at Chandigarh, built out of industrial and urban waste, was created by whom?
Nek Chand Saini, a roads inspector in Chandigarh, began building figures and courtyards out of broken tiles, bangles, sockets and other waste in a gorge near the Sukhna Lake, and the work he did largely alone became the Rock Garden, now one of the best known sights of the city.
Read the full explanation →The Lalbagh garden of Bengaluru was begun by which ruler?
Hyder Ali of Mysore began the Lalbagh garden at Bengaluru in the eighteenth century in the Mughal manner, and his son Tipu Sultan extended it and added trees and plants collected from many countries.
Read the full explanation →The Great Banyan, one of the widest trees in the world, stands in which garden?
The garden at Shibpur in Howrah, across the Hooghly from Kolkata, was founded in 1787 by Colonel Robert Kyd of the East India Company and renamed after Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose.
Read the full explanation →In Mughal architecture, the term charbagh refers to which feature?
Charbagh means four gardens, and the plan is a walled square or rectangle cut into four equal quarters by two axes that meet at the centre, where a tank, a platform or a tomb is placed.
Read the full explanation →Which monument is regarded as the first garden tomb built in the Indian subcontinent?
Humayun's Tomb was begun in 1565 by his widow Bega Begum, also called Haji Begum, with the Persian architect Mirak Mirza Ghiyas, and it is the first tomb in the subcontinent set at the centre of a charbagh crossed by water channels.
Read the full explanation →The Pinjore Garden, now known as the Yadavindra Gardens, is located in which state?
The Pinjore garden lies at Pinjore in Panchkula district of Haryana, on the road from Chandigarh to Shimla, and is a seven terraced Mughal garden laid out by Fidai Khan, the foster brother of Aurangzeb.
Read the full explanation →Nishat Bagh at Srinagar, the Garden of Gladness, was laid out by whom?
Nishat Bagh was laid out about 1633 by Abul Hasan Asaf Khan, Nur Jahan's brother and the father of Mumtaz Mahal.
Read the full explanation →Shalimar Bagh at Srinagar was built in 1619 by which Mughal emperor?
Jahangir built Shalimar Bagh above the Dal Lake in 1619 for his queen Nur Jahan, and it is the largest of the Mughal gardens of Kashmir, laid out in terraces with the Diwan-e-Aam, the Diwan-e-Khas and a zenana garden.
Read the full explanation →Which Mughal ruler laid out the Aram Bagh, also called Ram Bagh, at Agra, the oldest surviving Mughal garden in India?
Babur laid out the Aram Bagh at Agra in 1528, within two years of the first battle of Panipat, and it is the oldest Mughal garden that still survives in India.
Read the full explanation →The Maharishi Valmiki International Airport is located at:
The airport at Ayodhya Dham is named after Maharishi Valmiki, the author of the Ramayana, and was inaugurated at the end of December 2023 to carry pilgrim traffic to the city.
Read the full explanation →Which was the first city of Uttar Pradesh to get a metro rail service?
Commercial services on the north south corridor of the Lucknow Metro began in September 2017, making the state capital the first city of Uttar Pradesh with a metro of its own.
Read the full explanation →The Research Designs and Standards Organisation of the Indian Railways is at:
RDSO is the research, design and standards wing of the Indian Railways and works from Manak Nagar in Lucknow. It frames the technical standards for track, bridges, rolling stock, signalling and traction, tests new designs, and certifies vendors, so almost every railway specification in the country carries its stamp.
Read the full explanation →The Modern Coach Factory of the Indian Railways is located at:
The Modern Coach Factory at Lalganj in Rae Bareli district was set up to build stainless steel passenger coaches of the newer design and is one of the three coach manufacturing units of the Indian Railways.
Read the full explanation →The headquarters of the North Central Railway is at:
The North Central Railway was created in 2003 with its headquarters at Prayagraj, then called Allahabad, and it works the Prayagraj, Agra and Jhansi divisions, which together carry the busy Delhi to Howrah and Delhi to Mumbai trunk routes across the state.
Read the full explanation →The headquarters of the North Eastern Railway is at:
The North Eastern Railway, one of the zones of the Indian Railways, has its headquarters at Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh and runs the Lucknow, Varanasi and Izzatnagar divisions.
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