UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

At Bhedaghat near Jabalpur the Narmada runs in a narrow gorge between cliffs of marble, and a short distance upstream it drops as the Dhuandhar falls, the smoke cascade, so named for the spray thrown up by the fall.

The station at Bhopal that was called Habibganj was rebuilt with private participation, the first station in the country to be developed in that way, and it was renamed after Rani Kamlapati, the Gond queen connected with the history of Bhopal.

Mahakaleshwar stands at Ujjain on the bank of the Shipra, where the bhasma aarti is performed with ash, and Omkareshwar stands on the island of Mandhata in the Narmada in Khandwa district, where the 108 foot Statue of Oneness of Adi Shankaracharya was unveiled in 2023.

The tomb of the Malwa ruler Hoshang Shah at Mandu, the old Mandavgarh in Dhar district, is counted as the first building in India raised in marble, and later builders of marble monuments are said to have studied it.

Dhupgarh is a peak beside Pachmarhi in the Satpura, and at a little over thirteen hundred metres it is the highest point of Madhya Pradesh; visitors climb it for the view of the sunset across the ranges.

Pachmarhi, in the Satpura range in Narmadapuram district, is the only hill station of the state and is called the queen of the Satpura; the forest around it is the Satpura National Park and Tiger Reserve, and the whole area forms a biosphere reserve.

Bhimbetka lies in the Vindhya hills in Raisen district, not far from Bhopal, and its natural shelters carry paintings made over thousands of years, from hunting scenes of the Stone Age to later figures of horses and riders.

The temples built by the Chandela kings at Khajuraho in Chhatarpur district were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1986, the earliest of the three sites of Madhya Pradesh to be listed, and the Kandariya Mahadeva temple is the largest of the group.

The airport of Indore is named after Devi Ahilyabai Holkar, the Holkar queen who ruled from Maheshwar, and it handles more passengers than any other airport of the state, in keeping with Indore’s place as the commercial capital.

Itarsi, in Narmadapuram district, is where the Delhi to Chennai trunk line crosses the routes running east towards Jabalpur and west towards Khandwa and Mumbai, so a very large share of the long distance trains of central India pass through it and change direction, engine or crew there.

The West Central Railway, created in 2003 when the new railway zones were carved out, has its headquarters at Jabalpur and works through three divisions, Jabalpur, Bhopal and Kota, so Madhya Pradesh is the only state that holds both the zone office and one of its divisions in the same…

The scheme, begun in 2020, distributes napkins every month through anganwadi workers and self-help groups to women and adolescent girls of families below the poverty line, the aim being both health and school attendance.

The Chief Minister’s Window, opened in 2014, takes complaints from citizens at district offices and online, tracks them against a time limit and reports to the Chief Minister’s office, so it is the grievance channel of the state government.

The card works like the Kisan Credit Card but for livestock: the owner of an animal gets working capital on the strength of the animal, repayable in instalments at a low rate of interest, which suits a state whose Murrah buffalo is a brand of its own and whose milk…

The scheme allows a member of an Antyodaya family, that is a family with a yearly income below Rs 1.80 lakh, to travel a thousand kilometres free in a year in the buses of Haryana Roadways, the card being issued against the family’s Parivar Pehchan Patra and the journeys recorded…

The scheme, begun in 2016, registers unemployed young people who have passed the intermediate, graduated or taken a postgraduate degree, pays them a monthly allowance that rises with the qualification, and adds an honorarium for up to a hundred hours of work a month in a government or private office…

Under the Bhavantar Bharpai Yojana of 2018 the state fixes a protected rate for these vegetables and pays the grower the difference when the market price falls below it, because a vegetable cannot be stored like grain and its price crashes in a good year.

Chirayu Haryana, announced in 2022, gives the same cashless cover of Rs 5 lakh a family a year as Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, but to families of the state whose yearly income is below Rs 1.80 lakh, which brings in many households that the central list leaves…

The scheme, begun in 2020, pays an incentive for every acre on which a farmer gives up paddy for a crop that needs less water, and adds free seed and help with sowing, because the water table under the paddy belt of Kurukshetra, Kaithal and the neighbouring districts has fallen…

The Parivar Pehchan Patra gives each family of the state a family identity number with verified details of its members and its income, and pensions, scholarships, ration and scheme benefits are then delivered by reading that record.