Madhya Pradesh GK Questions 2026

Pithampur, in Dhar district next to Indore, is the largest industrial estate of the state and holds vehicle, auto component, pharmaceutical and engineering plants, along with a vehicle testing track; because of the concentration of automobile units it is often called the Detroit of Madhya Pradesh.

Nepanagar, a planned industrial township in Burhanpur district, grew around the newsprint mill set up there in the years around independence, which used bamboo from the Satpura forests as its raw material; the town is named after the National Newsprint and Paper Mills.

The Madhya Pradesh Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, passed in the middle of the 2000s on the pattern of the central Act of 2003 and the advice of the Twelfth Finance Commission, requires the state to keep its fiscal deficit within three per cent of the gross state domestic…

Chhattisgarh was created on 1 November 2000 under the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000. Until then Madhya Pradesh was the largest state of India by area; after the separation Rajasthan became the largest and Madhya Pradesh the second largest.

The solar park at Gurh in Rewa district, of 750 megawatt capacity, was the first renewable project in the country to supply an institutional buyer outside its own state, and a part of its power goes to the Delhi Metro, the rest to the distribution companies of Madhya Pradesh.

The Vindhyachal super thermal power station of NTPC stands at Vindhyanagar in Singrauli district, close to the coalfields that feed it, and it is among the largest thermal power plants in the country by installed capacity.

The Bank Note Press at Dewas prints currency notes, and the Security Paper Mill at Hoshangabad, now Narmadapuram, makes the special paper used for notes and other security documents, so two links of the currency chain lie in Madhya Pradesh.

The Malanjkhand copper project of Hindustan Copper Limited, in Balaghat district on the eastern edge of the state, works the largest copper ore deposit in the country, and its concentrate feeds smelters outside the state.

The black soil of the Malwa plateau and the Narmada valley suits soyabean, and the districts around Indore, Ujjain, Dewas and Sehore grow so much of it that the state is called the soya state and Indore became the centre of the soyabean oil and cake trade.

The Majhgawan pipe near Panna is the only working diamond mine in the country, which makes Madhya Pradesh India’s sole diamond-producing state, and the stones are sold through the government diamond office at Panna.

Madhya Pradesh has a unicameral legislature: the Governor and one House, the Vidhan Sabha, whose strength is 230. The annual financial statement under Article 202 is therefore laid before that single House, which votes the demands for grants and passes the Appropriation Bill.

Preparing the budget, that is estimating the receipts and the expenditure of every department and putting the estimates together, is the work of the executive: in Madhya Pradesh the Finance Department prepares it and the Finance Minister presents it.

Speaking at the inauguration, the Railway Minister said work of roughly that value is in progress in Madhya Pradesh, spread over new lines, doubling, third and fourth lines and gauge conversion on stretches such as Lalitpur–Singrauli, Satna–Rewa, Katni–Singrauli, Jabalpur–Gondia, Bina–Bhopal–Itarsi, Ratlam–Khandwa and Indore–Dahod.

The Satna–Devendranagar line measures roughly 53 km and was built at that cost, the last 8 km between Phulwari and Devendranagar completing it.

Churhat lies in Sidhi district, and with the Rewa–Churhat line of about 65 km finished, residents of Sidhi gained the chance to travel on the national rail network.

Both the new sections, Satna–Devendranagar of about 53 km and Rewa–Churhat of about 65 km, were built under this project, which the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh put at about 541 km and described as a link between Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh covering Lalitpur, Chhatarpur, Panna, Satna, Rewa, Sidhi…

Article 243E gives every panchayat a term of five years from the date of its first meeting, allows it to be dissolved earlier under a law in force, and requires the election to be completed within six months of the dissolution; but a panchayat constituted at such an election continues…

Article 243F says that a person who is not qualified to be a member of the legislature of the state is disqualified from a panchayat, but adds that no one shall be disqualified for being under twenty-five years of age if he has attained the age of twenty-one, so twenty-one…

Part IX of the Constitution does not apply on its own to the Fifth Schedule areas, so Parliament passed the Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act in 1996 to extend it with changes that protect tribal custom.

A Nagar Palik Nigam, that is a municipal corporation, is constituted for a larger urban area under this Act of 1956, the same year in which the state of Madhya Pradesh was formed; its elected head is the Mayor and its executive head the Municipal Commissioner.