Rajasthan GK Questions 2026

The National Forest Policy of 1952 laid down that one third of the total geographical area of the country should be under forest, and it fixed separate norms inside that target: about 60 per cent in the hills, where tree cover protects the slopes and the catchments, and about 20…

The ratio tells how many crops the sown land carries in an agricultural year, so a value of a hundred would mean a single crop everywhere and the Indian figure of about 140 per cent means that a large part of the land bears a second crop, mainly where irrigation…

Gross cropped area is a derived measure, not a land use head: it counts a field as many times as it is cropped in an agricultural year, so the same hectare can appear twice or thrice, and it is used with net sown area to calculate cropping intensity.

This head covers land that could be cultivated but has lain unused for more than five years, usually because it has become saline, waterlogged, eroded or short of water, and bringing it back into use is a standing aim of land reclamation programmes.

The Western Dry zone is western Rajasthan, the Thar region west of the Aravalli, with low and uncertain rainfall, sandy soil and a short growing season, so its crops are bajra, moth, guar and other hardy millets and pulses, with animal husbandry as the main support.

The Trans-Gangetic Plain zone lies beyond the Yamuna, that is on the Punjab side of the Ganga system, and takes in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Chandigarh and the Ganganagar belt of Rajasthan; its canal and tubewell irrigation supports the wheat and rice rotation of the green revolution.

In 1988 the Planning Commission adopted a division of the country into fifteen agro-climatic zones so that crops, irrigation, credit and research could be planned for areas that are uniform in rainfall, temperature, soil and cropping pattern.

Rajasthan is divided into ten agro-climatic zones, and zone three B is the flood prone eastern plain, which covers Alwar, Bharatpur, Dholpur, Karauli and Sawai Madhopur, the districts drained by the Banganga, Gambhir and Chambal where heavy monsoon flows cause waterlogging.

She was appointed Governor of Rajasthan in 2004, the first woman to hold that office in the state, and in 2007 she became the first woman President of India.

It provides that the Chief Minister shall be appointed by the Governor and the other ministers appointed by the Governor on the advice of the Chief Minister, that ministers hold office during the Governor's pleasure, and that the Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to the Legislative Assembly.

Until the States Reorganisation of 1956 the head of the state was called the Rajpramukh, and the office of Governor was created for Rajasthan from November 1956, the first holder being Sardar Gurmukh Nihal Singh.

As the princely states of Rajputana merged, their separate courts were replaced by a single High Court for the new state, established in 1949 with its seat at Jodhpur; its first Chief Justice was Kamala Kant Verma.

The High Court of Rajasthan has its principal seat at Jodhpur, and a bench was established at Jaipur in 1977, so the court sits in two cities; cases are distributed between them according to the districts from which they come.

Article 164(1A), inserted by the Ninety-first Constitutional Amendment of 2003, provides that the total number of ministers including the Chief Minister shall not exceed fifteen per cent of the total strength of the Legislative Assembly, and fifteen per cent of Rajasthan's two hundred seats is thirty.

Article 159 requires the Governor, before entering upon his office, to make and subscribe an oath in the presence of the Chief Justice of the High Court of that state, or in his absence the senior-most judge of that court available.

Parliament may by law create a Legislative Council for a state that does not have one, or abolish one that does, if the Legislative Assembly of that state first passes a resolution by a majority of its total membership and by two thirds of the members present and voting.

The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly has two hundred seats filled by direct election from territorial constituencies, and the figure matters for a second reason: the Council of Ministers may not exceed fifteen per cent of that strength, which gives a ceiling of thirty ministers including the Chief Minister.

It provides that the Governor of a state shall be appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal, which is why a Governor is not elected and owes his office to the Union executive.

The mosar is held some days after the funeral and the whole community is invited, and because poor families often borrowed heavily to hold it, social reformers and the state have long urged that it be kept simple.

The desert is bitterly cold at night in the winter months, and the atamsukh, whose name suggests comfort to the self, is the long quilted coat worn over the usual clothes at that season.