UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000 created Jharkhand on 15 November 2000, and with the Chhotanagpur plateau Bihar lost its coal, iron ore, copper, bauxite and mica, along with the heavy industry at Jamshedpur, Bokaro and Ranchi.

Article 267(2) allows the legislature of a state to establish a Contingency Fund of the State by law, placed at the disposal of the Governor, from which advances can be made for unforeseen expenditure pending authorisation by the legislature, the amount being recouped later through a supplementary demand.

A budget is classified by the relation between receipts and expenditure, which gives three kinds only: a balanced budget, in which estimated receipts equal estimated expenditure; a surplus budget, in which receipts exceed expenditure; and a deficit budget, in which expenditure exceeds receipts.

Under Article 204 an Appropriation Bill is introduced after the Vidhan Sabha has voted the demands for grants, and it alone makes the withdrawal of money from the Consolidated Fund of the State lawful; no money may leave that fund except under an appropriation made by law.

Article 202 requires the Governor to cause a statement of the estimated receipts and expenditure of the state for every financial year, called the annual financial statement, to be laid before the House or Houses of the legislature.

For agricultural planning the state is divided into nine agro-climatic zones, which group districts by their soil, rainfall and cropping pattern so that advice on seed, irrigation and fertiliser can be given region by region; the Bhabar and Tarai belt, the western plain, the Bundelkhand zone and the eastern plain…

Cautley, an engineer of the Bengal Artillery, surveyed and built the Upper Ganga Canal, which took water from the Ganga at Haridwar across the Doab and was opened in 1854; it was the largest irrigation work of its time in the subcontinent.

Moradabad has worked brass for centuries and exports engraved and polished metal ware to many countries, which is why the city is called Peetal Nagri, the town of brass, and brass is its product under the One District One Product programme.

The Rihand dam stands on the Rihand river, a tributary of the Son, in Sonbhadra district, and its reservoir is named after Govind Ballabh Pant, the first chief minister of Uttar Pradesh; with the Obra and Anpara thermal stations nearby, the district is described as the energy capital of the…

A money bill can be introduced only in the Vidhan Sabha and only on the recommendation of the Governor; once passed there, it goes to the Vidhan Parishad, which may discuss it and recommend changes but must return it within fourteen days, failing which it is deemed passed in the…

It requires the Governor to cause a statement of the estimated receipts and expenditure of the state for each financial year to be laid before the House or Houses of the legislature, and that statement is what is popularly called the budget.

The Purvanchal Expressway runs east from the Lucknow district to Ghazipur, passing through the eastern districts of the state, and it was built to open up a region that had little fast road connection before.

The corridor announced for the state has six nodes, at Lucknow, Kanpur, Jhansi, Chitrakoot, Aligarh and Agra, and Varanasi, although a major city of the state, is not among them.

The state government launched the programme in January 2018, giving every district a flagship traditional product and offering its artisans and small units credit, training, common facilities and marketing support, and the idea was later taken up more widely at the national level.

Firozabad has been the centre of the Indian glass industry for more than a century, and its furnaces turn out bangles, chandeliers and glassware that are sold across the country; the trade is also the district product under the One District One Product programme.

Mills set up on the bank of the Ganga from the middle of the nineteenth century made Kanpur the first great industrial city of northern India, first in cotton textiles and army supplies and then in leather and tanning, and the nickname followed from the comparison with the mill town…

The fertile plain of western Uttar Pradesh, watered by canals and tube wells, carries the densest sugarcane tract in the country, and the state leads India both in cane grown and in sugar produced, with mills concentrated in Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur and Bijnor.

The Congress Socialist Party was formed in 1934 as a group within the Indian National Congress to push it towards socialism, and Jayaprakash Narayan became its first general secretary.

A lawyer of Madras who turned to the labour cause, Chettiar organised the first May Day meetings in India on 1 May 1923 and founded the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan; a red flag was used on the occasion.

Both measures were aimed at the growing labour and communist movement, the first to deport foreign agitators and the second to curb strikes in public utility services, and the two young men threw bombs and leaflets to make, in their words, the deaf hear.