By Dr. C. L. Khanna

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1. : At a Glance ……………………………………………….. 3–8 2. Struggle Movement for Uttarakhand State ………………………….…… 9–13 3. Geographical Structure of Uttarakhand ……………………..…………… 14–16 4. Forest Resources of Uttarakhand ………………………………………… 17–20 5. Uttarakhand : Irrigation and Climate …………………………..………… 21–21 6. Uttarakhand : Soils …………………………………………………..…… 22–22 7. Minerals of Uttarakhand…………………………………………..……… 23–23 8. Uttarakhand Agriculture and Industry ………………………………....… 24–25 9. Rivers and Lakes of Uttarakhand ………………………………………… 26–27 10. Energy Resources and Dams of Uttarakhand ………………………….… 28–30 11. Uttarakhand : Wild Life ………………………………………………..… 31–32 12. Tribes of Uttarakhand ………………………………………………….… 33–34 13. Uttarakhand : Earthquakes ……………………………………………..… 35–36 14. Human Resources of Uttarakhand ……………………………………..… 37–42 15. Administration of Uttarakhand ……………………………………..…… 43–45 16. Fairs, Festivals and Folk Songs of Uttarakhand …………………….…… 46–46 17. Uttarakhand and Tourism ………………………………………………… 47–51 18. Uttarakhand Transport …………………………………………………… 52–52 19. Uttarakhand : Information Technology ………………………..…….…… 53–53 20. Personalities of Uttarakhand …………………………………………...… 54–55 21. Budget of Uttarakhand…………………………………………….……… 56–56 22. Miscellaneous Facts ……………………………………………………… 57–58 ● Multiple Choice Questions ……………………………………….….…… 59–68

Uttarakhand General Knowledge 1 Uttarakhand : At a Glance

Formation—9th Nov., 2000 Scheduled Tribe Population (2011)— Capital— 2,91,903 High Court— Males—1,48,669 Location—Northern frontier province of Females—1,43,234 country, bounded in the North by Himachal and Decadal Increase (2001–11)— China, in East by Nepal, in South by Uttar Pradesh Increased Rate—19·17% and in West by Haryana and . Population—0–6 age group Frontier States —Himachal, Haryana and Persons—13,55,814 Uttar Pradesh. Female—7,17,199 Frontier Countries—Nepal and Tibet (China occupied). Male—6,38,615 Length—From East to West 358 km. Sex-Ratio (0–6)—890 Breadth—From North to South 320 km. Literacy—79·63% Area—Total area 53,483 km2, Hilly area Male Literacy—88·33% 47,324 km2 (88% of the total area), Plain area Female Literacy—70·70% 6160 km2 (12% of the total area). Total Literate Population— Shape—Rectangular Persons—68,80,953 Rank in Country —According to area—18th Male—38,63,708 According to population—20th. Female—30,17,245 According to Density of Population—19th Sex Ratio (2011) (Per thousand Male)— Population (2011)— 963 female. Total population—1,00,86,292 persons (75% Population Density (2011) (per sq. km)— living in remote area) 189 Males—51,37,773 Divisions—02 Females—49,48,519 Districts—(13 + 4*) Infant mortality rate 43 per 1000 live Tahsils—82 births (All rate 57 per 1000 live births) Sub Tahsils—07 Rural Population (2011)—70,36,954 Cities—86 Males—35,19,042 Females—35,17,912 Development Blocks—95 Urban Population (2011)—30,49,338 Nyay Panchayat—670 Males—16,18,731 —7555 Females—14,30,607 Municipal Nigam—3 Percentage of Urban Population—25·7 Nagar Palika Parishad—30 Scheduled Caste Population (2011)— Nagar Panchayat—30 18,92,516 Total no. of Villages—16,826 Males—9,68,586 Inhabited Villages—15,761 Females—9,23,930 Non-Habitated Villages—1065

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Geographical Situation—28°–43′ North to Junior Basic School—15,644 31°–27′ North lat. and 77°–34′ East to 81°–02′ E. Senior School—4,296 long. High School/Inter Colleges—2,439 State Emblem—In a circular form three Polytechnique Colleges—37 mountain ranges above Ashoka’s Pillar, below the I.T.I.—106 pillar Ganga Waves. Energised Pump Sets/Tubewells—21,040 Main Tribes—Bhotia, Buxa, Jaunsari, Ragi, Kutir Jyoti Connections—2,20,426 Yak and Vanrawats. Average Rainfall—185 cm Climate—Cold. Summer Temperature—20°–30° C Area receiving Maximum Rainfall — Winter Temperature—05°–10° C . Lok Sabha Members—05 Highest Peak—Nanda Devi Lok Sabha Constituencies—Garhwal, Forest Area (2010-11)—34,651 sq. km , Nainital, Tehri and (Reserved) (64·79%) Members of Rajya Sabha—03 Reserved Forests 2 —24,643 km Dialect— and other regional languages, Protected Forests—9,885 km2 Kumaoni and Garhwali and its sub-dialects. Private Forests (Municipal and Canton- Main Rivers—Ganga, Yamuna, Tons, Kali, 2 ment)—123 km Gori, Kosi, Alaknanda, Saryu, Bhagirathi, Ram Barren and unculturable Land—2,24,480 Ganga etc. Land under Non-Agricultural uses— No. of Districts—(1) Garhwal, (2) Tehri 2,16,534 hectare Garhwal, (3) Uttarkashi, (4) Almora, (5) Pithora- Current fallow—35,161 hectare garh, (6) Chamoli, (7) Rudra Prayag, (8) Dehra- Net Area Sown—7,53,711 hectare dun, (9) Champawat, (10) Nainital, (11) Bage- shwar, (12) Udham Singh Nagar, (13) Haridwar, Gross Cropped Area—12,12,342 hectare (14) *, (15) *, (16) Ranikhet*, Permanent Pasture—2,29,322 hectare (17) Didihat*. (4·05%) Densely Populated District (2011)—Hari- Net irrigated Area—3,40,129 hectare dwar (18,90,422). Gross irrigated Area—5,69,769 hectare Least Populated District (2011)—Champa- Tourist Types—Religious, Cultural and wat (2,59,648). Mountaineering. Biggest District (Area)—Chamoli (8,030 Per Capita Income— 92,607 (2013) km2). Electricity Generated—4,126 MW. Smallest District (Area)—Champawat Capacity of Electric Installation—1,305 (1,766 km2). MW. Maximum Literacy—Dehradun 85·24% Electrified Villages—15,270 Male Literacy—94·97 (Rudra Prayag) Forest Medicines—Near about 2000 herbs Female Literacy—79·61 (Dehradun) and herbaceous. Minimum Literacy—Udham Singh Nagar Total Annual Revenue Received— 420 (74.44%). crore (approximately) Male—82·26 (Haridwar) Total Loan— 3000 crore (Approximately) Female—61·77 (Tehri Garhwal) Post Offices—2,718 Maximum Female Literacy—Dehradun Telephone Exchange —459 (79·61%). Least Female Literacy—Tehri Garhwal * These are newly created district on 1 January, 2012. (61·77%). Uttarakhand | 5

No. of MLA’s at the time of formation of Important Wild Animals—1. Tiger, 2. Leo- Assembly 31 (22 MLA’s from hilly tract of pard, 3. Elephant, 4. Musk Deer, 5. Black Bear, Uttarakhand + 9 MLC of Uttar Pradesh Vidhan 6. Sloth Bear. Parishad at that time). Minerals—Magnesite, Dolomite, Granite, Vidhan Mandal—Unitary System Graphite, Phosphorite, Berite, Gypsum, Limestone, Copper, etc. Members of Legislative Assembly —70 + 1 Important Rivers—Alaknanda, Kali or = 71 Sarda, Kali Ganga, Dhauliganga, Nandankini, Railway Stations—Kathgodam, , West Ramganga, Pindar, East Ramganga, Bhagi- Lal Kua, Bajpur, Tanakpur, , Haridwar, rathi, Bhilangana, Mandankini, Yamuna. Kashipur, Ram Nagar, Dehradun and . Main Industries—Electronic, paper, furni- Source of Income—Tourist, Hydel, Minerals, ture, woollen cloths, sports material, handloom, Forestry and Horticulture. fruit processing and sugar industry. Army Regiment in Uttarakhand—02 Other Sources of Income—Fruits, Flowers, (Kumaon and Garhwal Regiment). Fodder, Mushroom, Fishing, Silk and Kasturi and State Accounts Open— 2192·08 crore on Herbs. 9th Nov., 2000 Folk Song—Pandav, Bad-Badini, Long, Status of State—1st April, 2001 (11th State) Mailab and Bhagnol. State Animal—Musk-deer Folk Dance—Chokula, Jhumaleo, Jaggar, State Bird—Monal Jhoda, Chanchri, Chholia, Bhotia Raso and Hukari State Flower—Braham Kamal Boll. Universities—16 Aerodrome—Jolly Grant (Dehradun), Pant Tourist Places—Badri Nath, Mussoorie, Nagar (Udham Singh Nagar), Naini-saini Ranikhet, Nainital, Kedar Nath, , (), Gaucherie (Chamoli), Chingalisa Yamunotri, Hemkund, Sahib, Almora, Haridwar, (Uttarkashi) Rishikesh, , Pithoragarh. Chief Minister—Harish Rawat National Park—06 (Carbett, Nanda-Devi, Governor—Aziz Qureshi Flowers Valley, Rajaji, Gangotri, Govind National DGP—B. S. Sidhu Park. Chief Justice—K. M. Joseph Bird Sanctuary—08 (Govind, Kedar Nath, Chief Secretary—Shubash Kumar Ascot-Sona, Sona, Nadi, Winsor and Mussoorie. Lokayukta—Justice M. M. Ghildyal First Person in Uttarakhand ● First highest Gallantary Award Param-Vir- ● First Mahapaur (Mayor) of only Dehradun Chakra —Major Som Nath Sharma Nagar Nigam —Manorama Sharma Doberial (Posthumously) ● First founder woman of Chipko Movement ● First woman of India who climbed over the honoured by first Vriksh Mitra ·o~{kfe(‚ Everest —Bachhendri Pal award —Gaura Devi ● First freedom fighter from Uttarakhand ● First I. A. S. woman of Uttarakhand —Kalu Mahra (In the revolution of the first —Jyoti Rao Pandey freedom fighter of 1857 at Lohaghat) ● First Bharat Ratna awardee ● First freedom fighter from Uttarakhand who —Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant went to Jail —Mohan Singh Mehta ● First awardee of Gandhi Community Award ● First freedom fighter woman from Uttara- —Swami Ram khand who went to Jail —Bishni Devi Shah ● First Raman-Magsasay Prize awardee ● First woman member of Public Service Com- — mission of Uttarakhand —Dr. Sudha Pandey ● First Governor —Surjeet Singh Barnala 6 | Uttarakhand ● First Chief Minister —Nitya Nand Swami Other Facts ● First elected (Congress) Chairman of Vidhan- ● First National Park of India Hailey Park Sabha —Yash Pal Arya (1935), Now Corbett National Park is situated ● First Chief Justice —Ashok A. Desai at Ram Nagar in . ● First Director General of Police ● The famous rivers known as Sas and Bahu of —Ashok Kant Saran ● Dev Prayag are Bhagirathi (Sas) and First Lokayukth Alaknanda (Bahu). —Justice Syed Hyder Abbas Raza ● Sarda and Kali rivers emerge from the Milam ● First Chief Secretary —Ajai Vikram Singh Glacier of Pithoragarh. ● First Chairman of the Public Service Commi- ● Uttarakhand forest development corporation ssion of Uttarakhand —N. P. Nawani was formed 1st April, 2001. ● First Advocate General —R. P. Mathani ● The first session of Uttarakhand Vidhan ● First Chairman of the State Electricity Board Sabha was held on 9th January, 2001. —Diwaker Deo ● The first election of Uttarakhand Vidhan ● First Education Secretary —N. Ravishankar Sabha was held in February 2002. ● First Chairman of the Scheduled Caste/Sche- ● The status of special state to Uttarakhand was duled Tribe and Backward Tribe Commis- assigned on 2nd May, 2001, but was effective sion —Girish Lal Tamata from 1st April, 2001. ● ● First Chief of the Army in Uttarakhand In State Assembly three seats are reserved for scheduled tribe, these are Chakrata —Bipin Chand Joshi (Dehradun), Khateema (Udham Singh Nagar) ● First Mayor of the only Nagar-Nigam of and Dharchula (Pithoragarh). Uttarakhand ● National Academy of Public Administration —Smt. Manorma Sharma Doberiyal is located at Mussoorie. ● ● First Chairman of the Women Commission of Uttarakhand Administrative Training Aca- Uttarakhand —Dr. (Smt.) Santosh Chauhan demy is located at Nainital. ● Uttarakhand State Education Research and Others Training Council was established in 2002 at Narendra Nagar, the historical city of ● Second Chief Minister Garhwal. —Bhagat Singh Koshiyari ● The first agricultural university of the country ● Third Chief Minister —Narain Dutt Tiwari is at Pant Nagar which was established on ● Fourth Chief Minister 17th November, 1960 by the Prime Minister Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru. It is known as a —Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri Govind Ballabh Pant agricultural and techno- ● Fifth Chief Minister —Ramesh Pokhariyal logy university. ● Sixth Chief Minister —Vijay Bahuguna ● Chipko movement was started on 1st March, ● Second Chief Justice 1973 from Gopeshwar from , —Justice Saros Homi Kaparia but in 1974 the labourers of Simon Sports ● Second Governor —Sudershan Agarwal Goods factory of Allahabad came to cut off ● Third Governor (in charge) the trees in protest of that the Chipko was born at Rari village. In Rari village, 65 km —T. V. Rajeshwar away from Joshimath the women leadership ● Fourth Governor —B. L. Joshi was taken by Gauri Devi in 1974. ● Fifth Governor —Margret Allva ● Kanchula Kustoori Musk-deer fertility and ● Sixth Governor —Aziz Qureshi protection centre in at Chamoli. Uttarakhand | 7

● To establish the World record in Hindi Short- Symbol of Main Cities hand as well as its name in the Gunnies Book ● Queen of Lakes —Nainital of the World record is Dr. Gopal Dutt Bhist of ● Gateway of Kumaon —Kathgodam . ● Queen of Hills —Mussoorie ● Mountain Art centre was established in 1968 ● Saint City —Rishikesh at Delhi by Mohan Upretti. ● ● Small Kashmir —Pithoragarh In 2000, Dehradun Railway Station completed its 100 years of establishment. ● Switzerland of India —Kausani ● ● City of Temples —Dwarahat Ranchandi temple of Kumaon is situated at Katramal Almora. ● Piligrim Cities —Kumbh Nagar, Gangadwar and Holy city Haridwar ● Tehri Dam Project is fifth in the world and ● Gate of Garhwal —Kotdwar the biggest in the Asia. ● House of Bal-Mithai —Almora ● Bimal industry of Dhalwala is the first indus- ● Katyuri Valley —Baijnath try of Uttarakhand who got the 1st certificate ● Doon, Liechi Nagar, Military of ISO 14001 and ISO 9002. city, forest city —Dehradun ● Nanda Devi has been declared the second Biological Reserved Area. ● For the security and increase in no. of Panther ● The known Uttarakhand Maula Ram painting the tiger project was started at Corbett Museum is located at Sri Nagar. National Park in 1973. ● Badri Nath Dham, the one of the four ● Manhroori Musk-deer Research Centre was religious places of India is situated in Chamoli established in 1977. district. ● Monal is a national bird of not only ● Mussoorie of Uttarakhand has been assigned Uttarakhand but also of Himachal Pradesh. as a beautiful hill station of the world. ● Braham Kamal the state flower of Uttara- ● Valley of flowers is situated in Chamoli khand, as per its name does not grow lakes district of Uttarakhand. and tanks, but grows in harder rocks and in ● Doon Public School one of the known Public accessible areas of high mountains. schools of the country was founded by C. R. ● The scientific name of State tree Burans is Das. Rodedendron Arborium. ● First I. T. Hindi Lab. of the country has been ● In Uttarakhand Mahatma Gandhi visited established at Dehradun, in collaboration of Kumaon from 14th June, 1929 to 2nd July, Microsoft Corporation Ltd. 1929 and to Garhwal from 16th October to ● Measured and unmeasured scale at Uttara- 24th October, 1929. khand is Nali and Mutthi. ● The biggest plant of the world i.e. Chilli was ● For the appointment for the state services of planted by Sri Kishan Chand Joshi at Almora. Uttarakhand, a state level Public Service It was 660 cm. high, 93 cm broad, with 250 Commission was established in April 2001. cm. of its circumference. It is written in the There are four members of Commission, with Gunnies book of World record. its headquarter Haridwar. ● Dr. Harshwanti Bhist is renowned for Nanda ● In order to bring the transparency of the Devi women expedition of 1981. She was working of state assembly, a website of the awarded the Arjun Puraskar. Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha has been prepared. ● Bacchendri Pal is the first Indian woman who Its inauguration was done by Prakash Pant, climbed the Mt. Everest. She completed the then Chairman of Vidhan Sabha on 4th May, Mt. Everest expendition on 23rd May, 1984. 2001, before the commencement of the Budget Uttarakhand General Knowledge

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