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The Captive Employer CXO Meet at the Rajasthan International Centre in Jaipur was held by the Ministry of Rural Development along with the Rajasthan Skill and Livelihoods Development Corporation, and its subject was the Captive Employment window of DDU-GKY 2.0.

Soil scientists list parent material, topography (relief), climate, biological activity and time as the factors that form soil; where people live is not one of them.

This first act of the British Parliament to control the East India Company provided for a Supreme Court of Judicature at Calcutta.

At Rudraprayag in Uttarakhand the Mandakini, which flows down from near Kedarnath, joins the Alaknanda. Rudraprayag is one of the Panch Prayag, the five holy confluences of the Alaknanda on its way to forming the Ganga.

Denmark is known as the country of winds because strong westerly winds blow across its flat land and long North Sea coast for most of the year.

This is the order of the layers of the atmosphere from the ground upwards, with the exosphere above them all.

In 1611 the English East India Company opened its first factory on the east coast at Masulipatam, the chief port of the Golconda kingdom.

The Rihand dam was built on the Rihand, a tributary of the Son, in Sonbhadra district, and its reservoir is the largest artificial lake of India.

Aligarh has made locks since the colonial period and the trade grew into a cluster of small workshops making locks, hinges, builders hardware and brass fittings, which is also the One District One Product of the district.

The town and the villages around it, together with neighbouring Mirzapur, form the largest hand knotted carpet belt of India and export most of what they weave.

The Mathura refinery of the Indian Oil Corporation is the only refinery in the state and was set up to serve the demand of the north western plains, with crude reaching it by pipeline.

The town has distilled flower oils in copper stills for centuries and is called the perfume capital of India, its ittar being carried in leather bottles and matured through the seasons.

The scheme was announced on Uttar Pradesh Day, 24 January 2018, and chose one traditional product for each district so that help with design, credit, common facility centres, packaging and marketing could be concentrated instead of scattered.

The city grew in the nineteenth century as the cotton and woollen mill town of the Ganga plain, with army supply orders behind it, and the tanneries of Jajmau grew beside the mills.

The Singrauli coalfield spreads across the border of Madhya Pradesh into Sonbhadra, and no other district of Uttar Pradesh has workable coal.

Firozabad has made glass bangles, chandeliers and glassware for generations and is called the bangle city of India.

Chikankari is the fine white shadow work embroidery of Lucknow, done with untwisted thread on muslin, cotton and georgette, and it carries a geographical indication tag in the name of the city.

In this method small narrow channels are run between the ridges on which a row crop stands, and only those channels are filled.

Sandy soil drinks water too fast for any surface method, and an uneven surface cannot be flooded evenly without heavy levelling.

A khadin is an earthen bund built along the lower edge of a rocky slope in the desert.