UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The lump sum of Rs 1,00,000 is released after the beneficiary completes 21 years, and two conditions attach to it: she must have passed Class 12 and she must not have been married before the age of 18.

The state buys National Savings Certificates of Rs 6,000 a year for the first five years after registration, and these mature into a total assured benefit of Rs 1,18,000 that is released in stages linked to the girl's schooling: Rs 2,000 in Class 6, Rs 4,000 in Class 9, Rs…

The Government of Madhya Pradesh launched the Ladli Laxmi Yojana on 1 April 2007 to improve the sex ratio and to strengthen the position of the girl child in the family, and the Department of Women and Child Development has run it since through anganwadi centres.

Launched in 2020, Mera Pani Meri Virasat offers an incentive per acre to farmers in blocks where groundwater has fallen sharply if they replace water-hungry paddy with crops such as maize, pulses, cotton or vegetables, or take up agroforestry; the aim is crop diversification to save the aquifer.

The company's long-standing Haryana plants are at Gurugram and at Manesar, which lies on the Delhi-Jaipur highway in the same district and grew into an industrial model township around the car plant and its component suppliers, making the Gurugram-Manesar belt the centre of India's passenger car making.

Haryana enacted its Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act in 2005, following the Twelfth Finance Commission's advice that states pass such laws to qualify for debt relief; the Act commits the state to keep its fiscal deficit within about 3 per cent of gross state domestic product, to eliminate the…

Article 293 allows a state to borrow within India on the security of its Consolidated Fund, within limits set by its legislature, and requires the consent of the Government of India for any further borrowing while a loan made by or guaranteed by the Centre is still outstanding, a clause…

After the legislature votes the demands for grants, an Appropriation Bill is introduced under Article 204 to authorise withdrawal from the Consolidated Fund of the State for the granted sums and for the charged expenditure, and no money may leave that fund without such an Act.

Article 202 requires the Governor to cause the Annual Financial Statement, the estimated receipts and expenditure of the state for a financial year, to be laid before the House or Houses of the legislature, and this statement is what is called the budget of Haryana.

The Panipat refinery, commissioned in 1998, is an Indian Oil refinery and is the only refinery in Haryana; a naphtha cracker and petrochemical complex were later built alongside it, which makes Panipat an energy and petrochemical centre as well as a textile town.

Panipat is called the city of weavers and is a national centre for handloom products such as blankets, carpets, durries and furnishings, much of it made from recycled yarn, and the trade grew after refugee weavers settled there following Partition.

Lying in the National Capital Region next to Delhi, Gurugram holds the state's largest concentration of information technology and business process management firms, corporate head offices, malls and high-value real estate, and it also has car manufacturing, so it yields the biggest share of the state's goods and services tax…

As in India as a whole, the services sector, which covers trade, transport, real estate, finance, information technology and public administration, contributes the largest share of Haryana's gross state value added, and the corporate and information technology economy of Gurugram is a large part of it.

Mission Shakti was launched in the Navratri of October 2020 and runs in phases, each phase combining awareness drives in villages and schools, help desks for women at police stations, action on crimes against women, and links to self-employment and self-help groups so that safety is joined to earning.

Kannauj has distilled attar from flowers, herbs and roots for centuries using the deg and bhapka method, and is called the perfume city of India, so ODOP lists perfume and attar as its product.

The scheme, notified in 2019, pays up to Rs 5 lakh to the family of a farmer who dies or is disabled in an accident, and it covers not only the recorded landholder but also the family members who work on the land, the claim being filed with the district…

Under it the state distributes free smartphones and tablets to students of degree, diploma, technical and professional courses so that they can attend online classes and use government portals, and the beneficiary data is kept on the DigiShakti portal.

Nivesh Mitra is the single-window system of the state, on which an entrepreneur files one application and tracks the no-objection certificates, registrations and licences needed from the many departments, with time limits fixed for each of them under the state’s right-to-service rules.

The scheme, run by the Khadi and Village Industries Board and the MSME department, finances a bank loan for a new unit set up by an educated unemployed youth of the state, with the project cost allowed up to Rs 25 lakh in the industry sector and up to Rs…

Begun in 2018 along with the ODOP programme, it gives traditional craftspeople such as weavers, potters, carpenters, blacksmiths, cobblers and tailors a short training course of about six days and a free set of tools so that they can earn more from the same craft.