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Uttar Pradesh is a largest food grain producing State in India producing about 20% of the country’s total food grain production. In 2016-17 contribution of Uttar Pradesh was about 40 million tonnes in the national food grain production of 271.98 million tones. However, the state is also characterized by extreme dependence on agriculture. About 80% … Read more Uttar Pradesh :Agriculture
Important Cities Ghaziabad – Located along the Hindon River. One of the most industrialized and urbanized cities in UP. One of the cities in the urban planning purview of NCR, acting as satellite town for New Delhi. City was founded by Ghaziuddin as Ghaziuddin Nagar. It was earlier part of Meerut district. Various … Read more Uttar Pradesh :Major Cities and Tourist Places
Power Plants – Thermal/Nuclear Narora – Is one of the 7 atomic power plants operated by NPCIL. It is Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) of capacity 220X2 MW. Located in Bulandshahr District. Dadri – It has a huge coal-fired thermal power plant and a gas-fired plant and has a small township located in … Read more Uttar Pradesh :Power Resource
National Chambal Sanctuary – The National Chambal Sanctuary is famous for the rare Gangetic dolphin. The Sanctuary was founded in 1979 and is a part of a large area co-administered by Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh. Apart from the Gangetic dolphin, the other inhabitants of the sanctury include magar (crocodile) and ghariyal … Read more Uttar Pradesh: National Parks / Tiger Reserves /Wildlife Sanctuaries
Hydropower and Irrigation projects Rihand Dam – This is the largest multi-purpose project of Uttar Pradesh, straight gravity concrete dam across the river Rihand (a Tributary of the Son river) near village Pipri in Sonbhadra district. The water so impounded is collected in Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar reservoir. Dam is used for irrigation and … Read more Hydropower and Irrigation projects
Ganga- Ganga is formed by 6 headstreams and 5 of their confluences. Bhagirathi is considered as source of river ganga which rises at the foot of gangotri glacier at gamukh at an elevation of 3892 mts, though there are many small streams that feed bhagirathi . The six headstreams are the Alaknanda, Dhauliganga, Nandakini, … Read more Rivers of Uttar Pradesh
The climate of Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) is primarily defined as humid subtropical with dry winter (CWa) type with parts of Western U.P. as semi-arid (BS) type. However based on the Köppen climate classification, it can be classified mostly as Humid Subtropical with dry winter type with parts of Eastern U.P. as Semi-Arid (BS) type. U.P. … Read more The climate of Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh is the fifth largest State of India after Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh in area. For administrative purposes, the state is divided into 18 divisions and 75 districts. There are 303 sub divisions, 313 Tehsils, 11 Municipal Corporation, 689 Cities, 820 community development blocks, 52,000 Gram Sabha, 1,07,452 revenue villages, out … Read more Uttar Pradesh :Geographical location for Uppcs Upper Subordinate Exam