Uttar Pradesh GK Questions 2026

The Hastinapur wildlife sanctuary stretches along the Ganga across Meerut, Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar, Amroha, Hapur and Ghaziabad, which makes it the largest sanctuary of the state and one that spans the most districts; it protects the swamp deer of the Ganga plain and includes the Haiderpur wetland, a Ramsar site.

The park lies in the Terai of Lakhimpur Kheri along the Nepal border, and the Kishanpur sanctuary, which forms part of the same tiger reserve, is in the same district.

Dudhwa, in Lakhimpur Kheri district on the Indo-Nepal border, was declared a national park in 1977 and remains the only national park in Uttar Pradesh; everything else protected in the state is a wildlife sanctuary, a tiger reserve or a conservation reserve.

The review reports that the BOD load in the Ganga basin came down from 26 TPD in 2017 to 7.16 TPD in 2025, which works out to a reduction of 72.46%.

The annual inspection mechanism for grossly polluting industries in the Ganga basin began in 2017 with the support of the Central Pollution Control Board, described in the review as the national regulatory authority for this work.

The 2025 inspection cycle covered 3,703 grossly polluting industries in all, spread over 113 districts in six states and one Union Territory, with the potential to discharge into 46 tributaries and sub-tributaries of the Ganga and Yamuna.

The Ministry of Jal Shakti review records that compliance among grossly polluting industries in the Ganga basin climbed from 39% in 2017 to 86% in 2025, a steady gain produced by annual inspection, independent technical assessment and sector charters.

The 50th CPGRAMS report on States and Union Territories states that 1,312 training courses were completed under the Sevottam Scheme over the last five financial years, training roughly 43,738 officers in grievance handling and service delivery.

The 50th CPGRAMS report on States and Union Territories records that Uttar Pradesh closed the largest number of cases in September 2026 at 45,970, far ahead of every other State.

The 53rd monthly CPGRAMS report brought out by DARPG for September 2026 puts the number of grievances closed by Central Ministries and Departments at 2,38,579 for the month.

The correct answer is A, Mirzapur and Sonbhadra, the Vindhyan districts of the south-east, where dry deciduous forest grows on hilly ground and the tendu tree is common; its leaves are collected and dried to roll bidis and give seasonal work to thousands of forest dwellers, along with khair for…

Heavy rainfall and a high water table there support tropical moist deciduous forest in which sal, Shorea robusta, is the chief tree, in Lakhimpur Kheri, Bahraich, Pilibhit, Shravasti, Balrampur and Gorakhpur, and Dudhwa National Park and the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve lie inside this belt.

Formed on the Vindhyan and Deccan trap rocks of the south, it is clayey, dark and able to hold water through a dry spell, which is why the gram, wheat, oilseed and pulse crops of Jhansi, Jalaun, Hamirpur and Banda depend on it.

Bhur is the raised sandy soil of the upper doab in districts such as Meerut, Bulandshahr and Aligarh, blown into low ridges by the wind, poor in moisture and organic matter, and fit for bajra, barley and, where irrigation reaches, for sugarcane.

Usar, also called reh, is the saline and alkaline soil of districts such as Raebareli, Unnao, Hardoi, Kanpur and Aligarh, where sodium salts gather on the surface; gypsum, which is calcium sulphate, replaces the sodium on the clay particles with calcium, the sodium is then washed away by drainage, and…

Bhangar is the old alluvium of the higher ground away from the present river channels; it is darker, more clayey and dotted with the lime concretions called kankar, and it is not renewed by fresh silt.

Western disturbances travel from the Mediterranean across Iran and Pakistan and give the plains a few spells of light rain in December, January and February, exactly when wheat, gram, barley and mustard are standing in the field, so farmers call this shower the golden drops.

It is a hot, dry and dusty wind that blows from the west over the northern plains in the afternoons of May and early June, pushing the temperature past forty-five degrees Celsius in Agra, Jhansi and Banda and causing heat stroke, and it stops only when the monsoon arrives.

The monsoon current enters from the Bay of Bengal in the south-east and loses moisture as it travels up the plain, so the eastern districts and the Terai of Gorakhpur, Bahraich and Lakhimpur Kheri are the wettest, while Mathura, Agra and the Bundelkhand districts of Jhansi, Jalaun and Banda are…

This branch strikes the Ganga delta, is turned west by the Himalaya and moves up the Ganga plain, so it reaches eastern Uttar Pradesh about the middle of June and then travels on to the west, which is why the east of the state gets both earlier and heavier rain.