UPSC GK Questions 2026

Bhadohi, on the Ganga plain near Varanasi, is the centre of India’s hand-knotted carpet industry, and the whole belt around it is often called the carpet city; ODOP therefore lists carpets as the product of Bhadohi.

The One District One Product programme was announced on Uttar Pradesh Diwas, 24 January 2018, and picks one traditional product for every district of the state so that its artisans get design help, common facility centres, marketing support and easier credit through one programme instead of many.

Pithampur, in Dhar district next to Indore, is the largest industrial estate of the state and holds vehicle, auto component, pharmaceutical and engineering plants, along with a vehicle testing track; because of the concentration of automobile units it is often called the Detroit of Madhya Pradesh.

Nepanagar, a planned industrial township in Burhanpur district, grew around the newsprint mill set up there in the years around independence, which used bamboo from the Satpura forests as its raw material; the town is named after the National Newsprint and Paper Mills.

The Madhya Pradesh Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, passed in the middle of the 2000s on the pattern of the central Act of 2003 and the advice of the Twelfth Finance Commission, requires the state to keep its fiscal deficit within three per cent of the gross state domestic…

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…