UPSC GK Questions 2026

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.

After the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act of 1992 every state had to bring its own law in line with Part IX of the Constitution, and Haryana did so with the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994, which still governs the gram panchayats, panchayat samitis and zila parishads of the state.

The scheme, begun in 2006, gives money to buy a bicycle to girls who enter Class 9, the point at which many girls used to drop out because the high school was several kilometres from the village.

The scheme of the industries department allows a project of up to Rs 10 lakh for a new enterprise and gives half of it, that is up to Rs 5 lakh, as a subsidy that need not be repaid, the rest being a loan at a nominal rate of interest…

The Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana, run through Jeevika, identifies the very poorest families, among them those whose earnings came from making or selling liquor before prohibition came into force in the state, and gives them an asset, a consumption support for the early months, training and hand-holding, so that they move…

The women who form and run the self-help groups of the programme are called Jeevika Didi in common speech and in government communication, and they have taken on work far beyond saving and lending, including running Didi ki Rasoi canteens, selling seeds and sanitary napkins, and keeping accounts for their…

Jeevika is the working name of the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society, set up under the Rural Development Department with assistance from the World Bank, and it is the state agency for the national rural livelihoods mission, later renamed the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana, National Rural Livelihoods Mission.

Under the resolve Aarakshit Rozgar, Mahilaon ka Adhikar, Bihar reserved thirty-five per cent of posts in state government services for women, a horizontal reservation that applies across categories, and the state was the first in the country to go that far in its services.

The self-help allowance is paid to a young person of the state who has passed the intermediate examination, is between twenty and twenty-five years of age and is neither employed nor in further study, so that the cost of looking for work does not stop the search, and it is…

The Kushal Yuva Program, run at Kushal Yuva Kendras under the first of the seven resolves, trains young people who have passed at least Class 10 in life skills and behaviour, in spoken and written communication in Hindi and English, and in the use of a computer, so that they…

The scheme charges simple interest of four per cent in general, and only one per cent to women applicants, to transgender applicants and to the differently abled, a concession meant to push up the enrolment of girls in higher education.

The Bihar Student Credit Card Yojana, part of the first of the seven resolves, offers a loan of up to Rs 4 lakh for higher education after the intermediate, the state guaranteeing the loan through the Bihar State Education Finance Corporation so that a student without security can borrow for…

Har Ghar Nal Ka Jal is the resolve to take piped drinking water to every household, carried out by the Public Health Engineering Department in the towns and larger habitations and through the panchayats in the villages, and it had a special importance in Bihar because of arsenic, fluoride and…

The seven resolves were announced as a programme of government in 2015 and were taken up for implementation from 2016, each resolve carrying its own schemes with budget provision: work for the youth, reservation for women in government jobs, electricity, piped drinking water, paved lanes and drains, toilets in every…

Bihar has a bicameral legislature, and a money bill as defined in Article 199 can be introduced only in the Vidhan Sabha, the lower House, and only on the recommendation of the Governor.

The Bihar Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act was passed in 2006, after the central Act of 2003 and the recommendation of the Twelfth Finance Commission that states pass such laws to earn debt relief.