Madhya Pradesh GK Questions 2026

The Malwa plateau and the Narmada valley lie on the Deccan lava flows, and the weathering of that basalt produced the deep clayey black soil called regur.

Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya was established at Jabalpur in the nineteen sixties as the agricultural university for the whole state and still runs colleges and research stations across the eastern and central districts.

Burhanpur in the Nimar plain is the banana district of Madhya Pradesh. The warm climate, the deep soil of the Tapti valley and assured irrigation allow a long growing season, and the district sends bananas to markets in north India and exports a part of the crop.

The Nimar plain along the lower Narmada, covering Khargone, Khandwa, Barwani and Burhanpur, has deep black cotton soil and a warm dry growing season, the two conditions cotton needs.

Balaghat lies in the wet south eastern corner of the state, where rainfall is high and red and yellow soils suit paddy, and the district has long grown Chinnor, a short grained aromatic rice valued for its fragrance after cooking.

The Kadaknath is a black fleshed fowl reared by tribal families in Jhabua and the neighbouring districts of western Madhya Pradesh.

Opium may be grown in India only under a licence from the Central Bureau of Narcotics, and the permitted tract of Madhya Pradesh lies in these western Malwa districts, continuing across the border into Chittorgarh and Pratapgarh in Rajasthan.

This central belt, lying on the deep black soil of the Narmada valley and its Malwa fringe, grows the hard amber grained wheat known as Sharbati.

Gram, also called chana, is the biggest rabi pulse of the country and Madhya Pradesh grows more of it than any other state, mostly without irrigation, on the moisture that black soil holds after the monsoon.

Soybean spread across the black soil of the Malwa plateau and the Narmada valley from the nineteen seventies and now covers more area in Madhya Pradesh than anywhere else in the country, which is why the state is nicknamed the soya state.

The commission appointed in 1953 had Fazl Ali as chairman, with K. M. Panikkar and Hriday Nath Kunzru as members, and its report of 1955 was the basis of the States Reorganisation Act of 1956, which redrew the map into states and union territories on broadly linguistic lines.

It was carved out of the Telugu-speaking districts of Madras after the death of Potti Sriramulu, who fasted for the demand, and its creation forced the government to set up the States Reorganisation Commission under Fazl Ali, whose report of 1955 led to the Act of 1956.

It divided the old Punjab, created Haryana, transferred the hill areas to Himachal Pradesh and made Chandigarh a union territory serving as the capital of both Punjab and Haryana, an arrangement that is itself the subject of long dispute along with the transfer of Hindi and Punjabi speaking villages.

Mizoram's case rests on the inner line notified in 1875 under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, which it says marked out a wider belt for the Lushai Hills, while Assam relies on the boundary demarcated in 1933; the strip between the two lines is what both claim, and it is…

The Kotia cluster lies in the hilly tract where the two states meet, and both run schools, ration shops and panchayat elections there on the strength of their own records, which is why the claim has stayed before the Supreme Court for decades.

The correct answer is A, the States Reorganisation Act of 1956, which set up five Zonal Councils as standing forums where neighbouring states and the Centre could discuss matters of common concern, including border frictions, law and order and inter-state transport.

It allows the President, if it appears to be in the public interest, to establish a council charged with inquiring into and advising on disputes between states, investigating subjects in which some or all states and the Union have a common interest, and making recommendations for better coordination of policy.

It allows Parliament to provide by law for the adjudication of disputes about the use, distribution or control of the waters of inter-state rivers and river valleys, and to bar the jurisdiction of the courts in such matters; Parliament did both through the Inter-State River Water Disputes Act of 1956…

Original jurisdiction means the case begins in the Supreme Court itself, and Article 131 covers disputes between the Government of India and one or more states and between two or more states, which is the route by which land boundary suits such as the Belagavi and Kotia matters reach the…

Belagavi, earlier written Belgaum, lies in Karnataka but has a large Marathi-speaking population, and Maharashtra has claimed it along with Nippani and the Karwar area since the reorganisation of 1956; Karnataka has answered by building a second legislature complex there, the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha, and by holding a winter session…