UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 created the state of Madhya Pradesh from that date out of the Central Provinces and Berar, Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh and Bhopal, and the High Court of Madhya Pradesh was constituted with its principal seat at Jabalpur and Benches at Indore and Gwalior.

It was established on 2 January 1936 by Letters Patent as the High Court of Judicature at Nagpur for the Central Provinces and Berar, which until then had been under a Judicial Commissioner rather than a High Court.

When the High Court of Madhya Pradesh was constituted at Jabalpur on 1 November 1956, permanent Benches were provided at Indore and at Gwalior, and they have functioned there since.

The High Court of Madhya Pradesh has its principal seat at Jabalpur, where it was constituted on 1 November 1956 under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956.

The phrase came from the defections of 1967 in the newly formed state, when Gaya Lal, a member of the Legislative Assembly, changed his party three times within a fortnight, and the comment made on the occasion gave the language a lasting expression for floor-crossing.

Article 164(4) provides that a minister who for any period of six consecutive months is not a member of the legislature of the state shall at the expiration of that period cease to be a minister.

Haryana has 10 parliamentary constituencies for the Lok Sabha and 5 seats in the Rajya Sabha, the latter allotted under the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution and filled by the elected members of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha voting by a single transferable vote.

It allows the Governor to promulgate an ordinance when the Legislative Assembly of the state is not in session and he is satisfied that circumstances exist which make immediate action necessary.

Article 157 lays down only two qualifications for the office of Governor: the person must be a citizen of India and must have completed the age of thirty-five years.

Article 159 says that every Governor shall, before entering upon his office, make and subscribe an oath or affirmation in the presence of the Chief Justice of the High Court exercising jurisdiction in relation to the state, or in his absence the senior-most judge of that court available.

Article 164(1A), inserted by the Constitution (Ninety-first Amendment) Act, 2003, says that the total number of ministers including the Chief Minister in a state shall not exceed fifteen per cent of the total number of members of the Legislative Assembly.

The correct answer is A, Dharma Vira, a senior member of the civil service who became the first Governor of Haryana when the state was created on 1 November 1966.

The correct answer is B, Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma, who took office as the first Chief Minister of Haryana when the state was formed on 1 November 1966 under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966.

The Haryana Legislative Assembly has 90 elected seats, a strength it has had since 1977, of which 17 are reserved for the Scheduled Castes and none for the Scheduled Tribes, because no tribe is notified in the state.

Haryana was created on that date under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966, which divided the old state of Punjab on a linguistic basis, made Chandigarh a Union Territory to serve as the shared capital of both states, and transferred the hill areas to Himachal Pradesh.

Bihar amended its panchayat law and held the panchayat elections of 2006 with half the seats, and half the posts of chairperson, reserved for women, which made it the first state in the country to go beyond the constitutional minimum.

Article 323(2) requires a State Public Service Commission to present annually to the Governor a report on the work done by it.

Article 322 says that the expenses of a State Public Service Commission, including the salaries, allowances and pensions payable to its members and staff, shall be charged on the Consolidated Fund of the State.

Article 316(1) says that the chairman and other members of a State Public Service Commission shall be appointed by the Governor of the state, while those of the Union Public Service Commission are appointed by the President.

Article 233(2) provides that a person not already in the service of the Union or of the state shall be eligible to be appointed a district judge only if he has been an advocate or a pleader for not less than seven years and is recommended by the High Court…