UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Chhattisgarh was created on 1 November 2000 under the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000. Until then Madhya Pradesh was the largest state of India by area; after the separation Rajasthan became the largest and Madhya Pradesh the second largest.

The solar park at Gurh in Rewa district, of 750 megawatt capacity, was the first renewable project in the country to supply an institutional buyer outside its own state, and a part of its power goes to the Delhi Metro, the rest to the distribution companies of Madhya Pradesh.

The Vindhyachal super thermal power station of NTPC stands at Vindhyanagar in Singrauli district, close to the coalfields that feed it, and it is among the largest thermal power plants in the country by installed capacity.

The Bank Note Press at Dewas prints currency notes, and the Security Paper Mill at Hoshangabad, now Narmadapuram, makes the special paper used for notes and other security documents, so two links of the currency chain lie in Madhya Pradesh.

The Malanjkhand copper project of Hindustan Copper Limited, in Balaghat district on the eastern edge of the state, works the largest copper ore deposit in the country, and its concentrate feeds smelters outside the state.

The black soil of the Malwa plateau and the Narmada valley suits soyabean, and the districts around Indore, Ujjain, Dewas and Sehore grow so much of it that the state is called the soya state and Indore became the centre of the soyabean oil and cake trade.

The Majhgawan pipe near Panna is the only working diamond mine in the country, which makes Madhya Pradesh India’s sole diamond-producing state, and the stones are sold through the government diamond office at Panna.

Madhya Pradesh has a unicameral legislature: the Governor and one House, the Vidhan Sabha, whose strength is 230. The annual financial statement under Article 202 is therefore laid before that single House, which votes the demands for grants and passes the Appropriation Bill.

Preparing the budget, that is estimating the receipts and the expenditure of every department and putting the estimates together, is the work of the executive: in Madhya Pradesh the Finance Department prepares it and the Finance Minister presents it.

The amendment never made landholding a condition for contesting; such a requirement would have excluded landless villagers altogether and was not part of the law that the Supreme Court examined.

Article 243-I requires the Governor to constitute a Finance Commission for the state at the end of every fifth year to review the financial position of the panchayats and to recommend how the taxes, duties, tolls and fees of the state should be divided with them, what should be assigned…

Faridabad, the largest city of the state and an old industrial centre on the edge of Delhi, got the first municipal corporation of Haryana in the nineteen nineties under the Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994, and the rest of the corporations were created later as the towns grew.

Article 243-F says that a person who is qualified to be a member of the state legislature may be a member of a panchayat, with one exception: a person who has attained twenty-one years of age is not to be disqualified on the ground of age alone, so twenty-one is…

Article 243-K for panchayats and Article 243-ZA for municipalities vest the superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of electoral rolls and the conduct of these elections in a State Election Commission, whose Commissioner is appointed by the Governor and may be removed only in the manner and on the…

Article 243-Q requires every state to constitute a Nagar Panchayat for a transitional area that is changing from rural to urban, a Municipal Council for a smaller urban area and a Municipal Corporation for a larger urban area, the category being decided by the Governor on the basis of population…

The Eleventh Schedule, read with Article 243-G, lists 29 subjects such as agriculture, minor irrigation, animal husbandry, rural housing, drinking water, roads, education, health and the public distribution system, which a state legislature may devolve to panchayats.

The 73rd Amendment Act was passed in 1992 and was brought into force on 24 April 1993, observed every year since as National Panchayati Raj Day.

The amendment required a general category candidate to have passed matriculation, that is Class 10, while a relaxation was given to women and to Scheduled Caste candidates, who needed Class 8, and to Scheduled Caste women contesting a panch seat, for whom Class 5 was enough.

Haryana amended its Panchayati Raj Act in 2015 to add conditions for candidates, including a minimum educational qualification, no outstanding arrears of electricity dues or cooperative loans, and a functional toilet at home.

Under the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994 a gram panchayat is headed by a Sarpanch, who is elected directly by all the voters of the panchayat area, with an Up-Sarpanch as deputy and panches elected from the wards of the village.