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The Correct Answer is Haryana – 01 November 1966.

Key Points

• Haryana is a state in India that is located in the country's northwestern region.
• On November 1, 1966, it was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on the basis of linguistics.
• With less than 1.4 percent (44,212 km²) of India's land area, it is ranked 22^nd in terms of size.
• The state capital is Chandigarh, the most populous city is Faridabad in the National Capital Region, and Gurugram is a leading financial centre in the NCR, with major Fortune 500 companies headquartered there.
• Haryana is divided into six administrative divisions, 72 districts, 93 revenue tehsils, 50 sub-tehsils, 140 community development blocks, 154 cities and towns, 6,848 villages, and 6222 village panchayats.
• Haryana has the fifth-highest per capita income among Indian states and territories, more than double the national average for the year 2018–19, as the largest recipient of investment per capita since 2000.
• Haryana ranks seventh among Indian states in terms of the human development index.

Important Points 

The Correct Answer is Madhya Pradesh.

Key Points

• In the financial year 2018, Madhya Pradesh was the largest producer of pulses in India, accounting for 32.14 percent of total output.
• Rajasthan was the country's second-largest producer of pulses that year, accounting for 13% of total output.
• From 2013-14 to 2016-17, Madhya Pradesh topped the chart for highest Pulses (Thousand Tonnes) output, while the NCT of Delhi was at the bottom of the chart from 2013-14, 2014-15, and 2016-17, and Goa was at the bottom of the list in 2015-16.

Important Points

• Pulses are annual leguminous crops that produce one to twelve grains or seeds of varying size, shape, and color within a pod.
• They are used for both food and feed. The word "pulses" refers to crops harvested solely for dry grain, except crops harvested green for human consumption, which is known as vegetable crops, as well as crops used primarily for oil extraction and leguminous crops grown solely for sowing.
• India is the world's largest producer of pulses (25 percent of global production), a buyer with 27 percent of global consumption, and an importer with 14 percent of the global trade of pulses.

Additional Information

• Madhya Pradesh is followed by Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan in terms of pulse output.
• Uttar Pradesh produces the most wheat in India, followed by Punjab and Haryana.

The Correct Answer is Australia.

Key Points

• The mineral-rich island nation has the world's second-largest bauxite reserve, at 6.2 billion tonnes, with the highest-grade deposits concentrated in Queensland and the Northern Territory.
• The ore grades at the Weipa and Gove mines, for example, are 49-53 percent aluminum oxide.

Important Points

• Guinea is the world's leading bauxite producer, with an estimated bauxite ore reserve of 7.4 billion tonnes, mainly located in the western and central parts of the country. The nation holds 26.9% of the world's estimated ore reserves.
• With 2.6 billion tonnes of bauxite reserves, the South American country came in seventh. The Paragominas bauxite mine is one of the world's richest suppliers of bauxite, situated in the state of Pará in northern Brazil.
• The mine, which is fully operated by Brazil's Vale (CVRD), currently has an annual capacity of 5.4 million tonnes of bauxite.
• India's bauxite ore production has remained relatively constant in comparison to its aluminum output and is expected to rise this year as domestic demand grows.

The answer is Madhya Pradesh.

Key Points

• Area-wise Madhya Pradesh has the largest forest cover in the country followed by Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Maharashtra.
• In terms of forest cover as percentage of total geographical area, the top five States are Mizoram (84.53%), Arunachal Pradesh (79.33%), Meghalaya (76.00%), Manipur (74.34%) and Nagaland (73.90%).

Important Points

India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2021:

• The total forest and tree cover of the country is 80.9 million hectare which is 24.62 percent of the geographical area of the country. As compared to the assessment of 2019, there is an increase of 2,261 sq km in the total forest and tree cover of the country. Out of this, the increase in the forest cover has been observed as 1,540 sq km and that in tree cover is 721 sq km.
• Increase in forest cover has been observed in open forest followed by very dense forest. Top three states showing increase in forest cover are Andhra Pradesh (647 sq km) followed by Telangana (632 sq km) and Odisha (537 sq km).
• 17 states/UT’s have above 33 percent of the geographical area under forest cover. Out of these states and UT’s, five states/UTs namely Lakshadweep, Mizoram, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya have more than 75 percent forest cover while 12 states/UTs namely Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura, Goa, Kerala, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, Assam, Odisha, have forest cover between 33 percent to 75 percent.
• Total mangrove cover in the country is 4,992 sq km. An increase of 17 sq Km in mangrove cover has been observed as compared to the previous assessment of 2019. Top three states showing mangrove cover increase are Odisha (8 sq km) followed by Maharashtra (4 sq km) and Karnataka (3 sq km).
• Total carbon stock in country’s forest is estimated to be 7,204 million tonnes and there an increase of 79.4 million tonnes in the carbon stock of country as compared to the last assessment of 2019. The annual increase in the carbon stock is 39.7 million tonnes.

The Correct Answer is 2000.

Key Points

• The National Population Policy, which was adopted in the year 2000, reaffirms the government's commitment to voluntary and informed choice, a target-free strategy, and the attainment of replacement fertility by addressing abortion, maternal health, and child survival at the same time.
• The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare's National Family Planning Programme manages the implementation of the National Population Policy 2000's tenets.
• The program's service delivery data is triangulated, and the program is monitored on a regular basis by annual review meetings, constructive supervision visits, and common review missions, among other things.

Important Points

• Population policies were developed to resolve unmet abortion, healthcare facilities, and healthcare workforce needs, as well as to provide comprehensive service delivery for reproductive and child health care.
• The key goal is to achieve demographic stability at a pace that meets the needs of long-term economic growth, social sustainability, and environmental protection.

The answer is 11^th July.

• World Population Day is observed on the 11^th of July every year.
• "How to safeguard the health and rights of women and girls now" amid the pandemic is the theme of World Population Day 2020.

Important Points

• World Population Day, which seeks to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues, was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989, an outgrowth of the interest generated by the Day of Five Billion, which was observed on 11 July 1987.
• By resolution 45/216 of December 1990, the United Nations General Assembly decided to continue observing World Population Day to enhance awareness of population issues, including their relations to the environment and development.
• The Day was first marked on 11 July 1990 in more than 90 countries. Since then, a number of UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) country offices and other organizations and institutions commemorate World Population Day, in partnership with governments and civil society.

Additional Information

The correct answer is Zelinsky.

Key Points

• Zelinsky propounded the ‘Mobility Transition Model of Migration’.
• Wilbur Zelinsky’s 1971 paper in Geographical Review entitled the “Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition” was both forward-looking and offered innovative ideas regarding human geographic mobility.
• One of the most interesting aspects of the paper was a set of predictions for mobility in a “future superadvanced society”.
• Migration is one of the distinguishing features of human beings that has been occurring since it started from the very beginning of man’s appearance in this universe.
• Human mobility was even present in primitive times and people used to migrate in search of abundant food and in search of a safe living environment and protection from physical dangers.

Additional Information

• Everett Spurgeon Lee the Push and Pull Theory:

• Push factors are conditions that can force people to leave their homes and are related to the country from which a person migrates.

• Pull factors are exactly the opposite of push factors: they attract people to a certain location.

• J.B.Clarke Theory of Economic Growth:

• The static and dynamic economic theory should be analytically separated and that the study of dynamics could not be successful without first acquiring knowledge of static economic laws.

• He explores the way income is distributed between wages, interest, and rents in a market economy.

• Ravenstein's Laws of Migration:

• Most migrants move only a short distance.

• There is a process of absorption, whereby people immediately surrounding a rapidly growing town move into it and the gaps they leave are filled by migrants from more distant areas, and so on until the attractive force [pull factors] is spent.

• There is a process of dispersion, which is the inverse of absorption.

• Economic factors are the main cause of migration.

• Females are more migratory than males.

The correct answer is Konyak-Kerala.

Key Points

• Konyak tribe is found in Nagaland.
• National Commission on Scheduled Tribes comes in the constitutional bodies.
• It comes to article 338A in our constitution.

Additional Informationr

• There are about 550 tribes in India.
• As per the 1951 census, 5.6% of the total population of the country was tribal. According to Census-2011.
• The oldest tribe in India is Jarwa found in Andaman and Nicobar.
• Tribes come under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
• The Ministry was set up in 1999 after the bifurcation of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment with the objective of providing a more focused approach to the integrated socio-economic development of the Scheduled Tribes (STs).
• Monitoring of ST Welfare Grants, based on the framework and mechanism designed by NITI Ayog.
• Madhya Pradesh has the largest number of scheduled Tribes.

Important Points

• Minister of Tribal Affairs is Arjun Munda.
• Niti Ayog formes in 2015.
• It replaces Yojana Ayog.
• Full-Form of Niti Ayog: National Institution for Transforming India.

The correct answer is Kerala.

Key Points

• As per the 2011 census, the State of Kerala had the highest sex ratio in India.
• Kerala with 1084 has the highest sex ratio.
• Sex ratio is defined as the number of females per thousand males.
• It was revealed that the population ratio in India 2011 is 943 females per 1000.

Additional Information

• The Indian Census is the largest single source of a variety of statistical information on different characteristics of the people of India.
• The first census of India was conducted by Lord Mayo in 1872.
• The first official census was started by Lord Ripon in 1881.
• In 2011 it is 15 census of India.
• It comes to the Ministry of Home Affairs From 1961.
• The slogan of the 2011 Census is Our Census Our Future.
• C M Chandramauli was the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India for the 2011 Indian Census.

Important Points

• Haryana state has the lowest sex ratio(879) in India.
• In Union Territory Puducherry with 1038 highest.
• Overall Daman and Diu have the lowest sex ratio of 618.
• The sex ratio of India is 943.
• The home minister of India is Mr.Amit Shah.

The correct answer is Central Business District.

Key Points

• Central Business District is the Heart of the City.
• Central Business District is referred to as CBD.
• CBD is the first ring of the concentric zone model.
• The Heart of the city has many tallest buildings, offices, high land value, commercial and retail stores.
• It has large shopping and banking areas, and government buildings.
• It is mainly located at the Centre of the city.
• It is accessible from all parts of the city.
• Major rail and road routes are present.

Additional Information

• Concentric zone model:

• Zone of Better Residence:

• The fourth ring is called the zone of better residences.

• This zone is dominated by middle-class families.

• Zone of the independent workers:

• The third ring is called the zone of independent workers.

• This zone is occupied by a working-class household.

• Commuter's Zone:

• The fifth ring is called the commuter’s zone

• Most people living here have to commute to work every day.