Madhya Pradesh GK Questions 2026

The Bansagar Dam stands on the Sone river in the Shahdol region of Madhya Pradesh. Bansagar is a joint project of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the three states through which the Sone flows, and it serves both irrigation and power.

Lavani is the best known folk dance of Maharashtra, performed by women in a nine-yard sari to the beat of the dholki.

The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 took effect on 31 October 2019 and replaced the former state with two Union Territories.

All three came into being within a fortnight in November 2000: Chhattisgarh from Madhya Pradesh on 1 November, Uttarakhand, then named Uttaranchal, from Uttar Pradesh on 9 November, and Jharkhand from Bihar on 15 November.

Sikkim became the twenty-second state of the Indian Union on 16 May 1975 through the Constitution (Thirty-sixth Amendment) Act, 1975, which placed it in the First Schedule as a state and added Article 371F for special provisions relating to it.

It was formed on 2 June 2014 under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, out of the north-western districts of Andhra Pradesh, and Hyderabad was made the common capital of both states for a transitional period.

The reorganisation of 1956 had left a bilingual Bombay State with Marathi and Gujarati speakers together.

The States Reorganisation Commission was appointed in December 1953 with Fazl Ali as chairman, and it submitted its report in 1955.

It allows Parliament to form a new state by separation of territory, to unite two or more states, to increase or diminish the area of a state and to alter its boundaries or its name.

The Parliamentary Committee headed by Sardar Hukam Singh, then Speaker of the Lok Sabha, examined the demand for a Punjabi-speaking state and recommended the division of Punjab.

The Telugu-speaking Andhra State was carved out of the Madras province on 1 October 1953, the first time independent India accepted language as the ground for a new state, and in 1956 it was enlarged and renamed Andhra Pradesh.

Andhra State came into being on 1 October 1953 from the Telugu-speaking districts of the Madras province. The immediate cause was the death of Potti Sriramulu on 15 December 1952 after a fast unto death for a Telugu state, and the agitation that followed forced the Government's hand.

Matki is a women's folk dance of the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh, performed at weddings and other happy occasions.

Itai-itai disease is long-term cadmium poisoning, first noticed around 1912 in the Toyama region of Japan, where mines upstream released cadmium into the Jinzu river and it built up in the rice and water used by villagers.

Nokrek Biosphere Reserve is in the Garo Hills of Meghalaya; Manas is in Assam along the Bhutan border; Similipal is in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha; and Seshachalam lies in the Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh.

The stapedius, only about 1 millimetre long, is the smallest skeletal muscle in the human body. It lies in the middle ear and is attached to the stapes, which is itself the smallest bone of the body.

Monosodium glutamate is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, an amino acid, and it is added to soups, sauces, noodles and snacks to strengthen their savoury taste.

Geitonogamy is the transfer of pollen grains from the anther of one flower to the stigma of another flower on the same plant.

A healthy human ear can hear sound waves with frequencies from about 20 hertz to 20,000 hertz (20 kHz); this band is called the audible range.

Monetary policy is run by the central bank, the Reserve Bank of India, which controls the supply and the cost of money in the economy.