Himachal GK Quiz

ANSWER – C

• Punjab state was reorganized with the formation of Haryana as a separate state and
• merger of the then Kullu, Kangra, Shimla and some hilly areas of Hoshiarpur district and Dalhousie of Gurdaspur district of Punjab into Himachal Pradesh;
• With this addition the Himachal Pradesh was constituted of nine districts with an area of 55,673 sq.kms and a population of 28.12 lakh according to 1961 population census.
• On 1st September, 1972, two more districts viz. Hamirpur’ and ‘Una’ were created by trifurcation of Kangra district and the Mahasu district was reorganized as Shimla and Solan districts.

ANSWER – C

• Deepak taal – Lahaul Spiti
• Servalsar – Kullu
• Nil sar – Mandi
• Kiur Dal – Chamba

ANSWER – D

• The Great Himalayan range separates the drainage of Spiti from Beas.
• Zanskar range separates Spiti and Kinnaur from Tibet.

ANSWER – A

Physiographically, the state can be divided into five zones, viz.

• Wet sub-temperate zone comprising of Palampur and Dharmshala area of Kangra listrict, Joginder Nagar area of Mandi district and Dalhousie area of Chamba district;
• Humid sub-temperate zone, comprising of Kullu and Shimla districts and parts of Mandi, Solan, Chamba, Kangra and Sirmaur districts
• Dry temperate, alpine high lands which include major parts of Lahaul-Spiti, Pangi and Kinnaur;
•  Humid sub-tropical zone, comprising of Bilaspur, major parts of Mandi district, Nahan area of Sirmaur district, Bhattiyat valley of Chamba district, Nalagarh area of Solan district, Hamirpur district and Dehra and Nurpur areas of Kangra district, and
• Sub-humid tropical zone comprising of Una district, Paonta Sahib area of Sirmaur district and Indora area of Kangra district.

ANSWER – C

• The climate of Himachal Pradesh varies at different altitudes from semitropical to the semi-arctic. The average rainfall is 152 cms (60 inches).
• The highest rainfall is in ‘Kangra district at Dharamshala‘ and lowest in Lahaul Spiti at place Spiti.
• Near Shimla is Mashobra, derived from Maishaira pertaining to a herd of buffaloes ‘mais’ means buffalo. It’s the monsoon that filled Mashobra’s pools with water and it is here the villagers drive their flocks to wallow in them.

ANSWER – B

• A large quantity of silt that makes its way into the 10,000-hectare Gobind Sagar, the country’s largest fishing pond, every year has spelt doom for fish breeding grounds. The fish production in the reservoir has nose-dived by nearly 50 per cent in the past years.
• Millions of tonnes of silt enters the Gobind Sagar every year. During the monsoons, the silt enters the Sutlej due to soil erosion because of the construction of dams upstream like Karcham Wangtu in Kinnaur and Kol Dam near the Mandi-Bilaspur border.
• The other villains are mining sites of cement plants at Darlaghat, Bagha and Barmana, and PWD roads being built in the catchment areas of the Sutluj and its tributaries like the Seer, the Gambhar and the Sukhad. These feeding streams of the Sutluj carry huge loads of silt into the Govind sagar.

ANSWER – D

ANSWER – C

ANSWER – A

• Sutlej: Vedic-Sutudri, Sanskrit-Shatadru
• Beas: Vedic-Arajkiya, Sanskrit-Vipasha;
• Ravi: Vedic-Purusha, Sanskrit-Iravati;
• Chenab: Vedic-Asikani;
• Yamuna: Kalindi

ANSWER – D

Middle Himalayas:

• In this zone falls all areas like the upper areas of the tehsils of Pachhad and Renuka in Sirmaur district;
• Chachiot and Karsog tehsils of Mandi district;
• Upper parts of Kangra and Palampur tehsil of Kangra district;
• Dalhousie, Bhattiyat and Churah areas of Chamba district.