Rajasthan GK Questions 2026

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.

The Bisalpur dam stands on the Banas in Tonk district and was built mainly to supply drinking water, which it pipes to Jaipur, Ajmer and Tonk, besides irrigating land in Tonk itself.

The four structures of the project stand in a fixed order from upstream to downstream, and the order itself is the question: Gandhi Sagar in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh, then Rana Pratap Sagar at Rawatbhata in Chittorgarh, then Jawahar Sagar near Borawas in Kota, and last the Kota barrage…

The Chambal rises at Janapav hill in the Vindhyan highlands of Madhya Pradesh and then flows along and through Rajasthan, so the two states built the valley scheme together and share its cost and its benefits equally.

It was opened in 1927, draws Sutlej water from the Hussainiwala headworks near Ferozepur and carries it into Sri Ganganagar, which became the first and for long the only canal irrigated district of Rajasthan.

The project was planned by the engineer Kanwar Sain in 1948 under that name, the foundation stone was laid on 31 March 1958, and the canal was renamed the Indira Gandhi Canal in 1984.

It stands in Punjab just below the point where the Beas joins the Sutlej, so it can command the combined flow of the two rivers.

Although the Indira Gandhi Canal and the Chambal canals are the famous works of the state, they water only a part of it.

Rajasthan runs its cattle breeding farms in the home tract of each breed, so the place names and the breeds go together.

The Pushkar fair gathers at the Pushkar lake in Ajmer district in the month of Kartik, which falls in October or November, and reaches its climax on the full moon day, Kartik Purnima, when pilgrims bathe in the lake beside the Brahma temple.

Although the Indira Gandhi Canal is the most celebrated irrigation work in Rajasthan, canal command covers only a part of the state, mainly the north-west and the Chambal and Mahi tracts.

Sojat town in Pali district is the henna capital of India. The shrub needs a hot dry climate and poor soil, both of which the tract offers, and the leaves are dried and powdered in Sojat before being sold across the country and exported.

The Indira Gandhi Canal, first called the Rajasthan Canal, starts at Harike in Punjab, where the Beas joins the Sutlej, and carries that water south-west through a feeder and then a main canal into Hanumangarh, Sri Ganganagar, Bikaner, Jaisalmer and Barmer.

Isabgol, the psyllium whose husk is used as a laxative and in medicines, is sown in the cool months after the monsoon and harvested in spring, which makes it a rabi crop.

Rajasthan declared the camel its state animal in 2014, a decision meant to arrest the fall in camel numbers as tractors replaced camel carts and grazing land shrank.

The Jakhrana goat takes its name from the village of Jakhrana in Alwar district of eastern Rajasthan.

The Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute, an institute of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, works at Avikanagar in Tonk district on sheep and rabbit breeding, wool quality and grazing management.

The Chokla sheep is reared in Churu, Sikar and Jhunjhunu in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan.