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Begusarai district of Bihar falls in which division?
The Munger division, with its headquarters at Munger, has six districts: Munger, Jamui, Khagaria, Lakhisarai, Begusarai and Sheikhpura.
Read the full explanation →Bihar Diwas is observed every year on 22 March because on that day in 1912
The Delhi Durbar of December 1911 announced the creation of a separate province, and it came into being on 22 March 1912 with its capital at Patna; the day is observed as Bihar Diwas.
Read the full explanation →The first Chief Minister of Bihar was
Shri Krishna Sinha, remembered across the state as Shri Babu, was the first Chief Minister of Bihar and held the office for a long and formative period, during which the zamindari abolition legislation was taken up.
Read the full explanation →The newest district of Bihar, created in 2001, is
Arwal was carved out of Jehanabad district in 2001 and placed in the Magadh division. Its creation is important because Bihar was left with thirty-seven districts when Jharkhand was formed on 15 November 2000, and Arwal raised the number to the present thirty-eight.
Read the full explanation →Which district of Bihar is the smallest in area and at the same time the most densely populated?
Sheohar, a small district of the Tirhut division carved out of Sitamarhi, has the least area in the state and also the highest density of population, while Kaimur in the south-west has the lowest density.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest district of Bihar by area?
West Champaran, whose headquarters is Bettiah and which lies in the Tirhut division along the border with Nepal, is the largest district of the state by area; the smallest by area is Sheohar, in the same division.
Read the full explanation →The headquarters of the Magadh division of Bihar is at
The Magadh division is administered from Gaya and contains the districts of Gaya, Jehanabad, Arwal, Nawada and Aurangabad.
Read the full explanation →How many districts and divisions does Bihar have at present?
The nine divisions are Patna, Magadh, Tirhut, Saran, Darbhanga, Kosi, Purnia, Bhagalpur and Munger, and the thirty-eight districts are distributed among them.
Read the full explanation →Uttarakhand was carved out of Uttar Pradesh in which year?
Thirteen hill districts were separated on 9 November 2000 to form the new state of Uttaranchal, which was renamed Uttarakhand in 2007, and Uttar Pradesh was left with seventy districts at that point.
Read the full explanation →Uttar Pradesh Day, marking the day the United Provinces were renamed Uttar Pradesh in 1950, is observed on
The United Provinces were renamed Uttar Pradesh on 24 January 1950, two days before the Constitution came into force, and the state keeps that date as Uttar Pradesh Day.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Governor of Uttar Pradesh after independence, and also the first woman Governor in India?
Sarojini Naidu, the poet and Congress leader called the Nightingale of India, was appointed Governor of the United Provinces, soon renamed Uttar Pradesh, in 1947, which made her the first woman to hold a Governor's office in India.
Read the full explanation →In 2018 the Faizabad district and division of Uttar Pradesh were renamed as
Faizabad, both district and division, was renamed Ayodhya in 2018 after the ancient city within it; in the same year Allahabad became Prayagraj and the Mughalsarai railway junction in Chandauli was renamed after Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya.
Read the full explanation →According to the Census of 2011, which is the most populous district of Uttar Pradesh?
It had the largest population of any district of the state at the 2011 census, counting both the city and its very large rural area.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest district of Uttar Pradesh by area?
Lakhimpur Kheri, on the Nepal border in the Terai, is the largest district of the state in area and holds the Dudhwa National Park, famous for the tiger and the swamp deer, the state animal.
Read the full explanation →The headquarters of the Chitrakoot Dham division of Uttar Pradesh is at
The Chitrakoot Dham division is one of the two divisions of the state that are not named after their headquarters, and its office sits at Banda, with Chitrakoot, Mahoba and Hamirpur as the other districts of the division.
Read the full explanation →Which district of Uttar Pradesh shares its boundary with four states and is the only district in India to do so?
Sonbhadra, in the extreme south-east of the state, touches Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar, which makes it the only district in India bordering four states; it is the second largest district of Uttar Pradesh in area and, because of its thermal and hydel stations, is called the energy capital…
Read the full explanation →Uttar Pradesh is divided into how many administrative divisions, or mandals?
The seventy-five districts of Uttar Pradesh are grouped into eighteen divisions, each under a Commissioner: Agra, Aligarh, Ayodhya, Azamgarh, Bareilly, Basti, Chitrakoot Dham, Devipatan, Gorakhpur, Jhansi, Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Mirzapur, Moradabad, Prayagraj, Saharanpur and Varanasi.
Read the full explanation →How many districts are there in Uttar Pradesh?
The state had seventy districts after thirteen hill districts were separated in November 2000 to form Uttarakhand, and five more were created between 2008 and 2011, namely Kasganj, Amethi, Hapur, Sambhal and Shamli, taking the number to seventy-five.
Read the full explanation →Which city of Rajasthan is known as the textile city of the state?
Bhilwara grew into the largest centre of synthetic yarn, suiting and shirting in Rajasthan and is commonly called the textile city or the Manchester of Rajasthan; the same district also holds the Rampura Agucha zinc mine.
Read the full explanation →The Mukhyamantri Jal Swavlamban Abhiyan, launched in Rajasthan in 2016, is concerned with
The campaign took up village level works such as check dams, anicuts, farm ponds, contour trenches and the repair of old tanks, with the aim of making each village self-reliant in water, and it was carried out in phases in selected panchayats of every district.
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