COMPLETE

STATICK G.K
OF
CHANDIGARH
MCQ PART – 2

BY JATIN SINGLA

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MAP OF CHANDIGARH
 Q. At the starting how many sectors were
purposed to make in Chandigarh ?
Ans . 30
Chandigarh alone has 56 sectors, beyond
which the sector count continues into Mohali .

There is no sector13.

Q. What is the rank of Chandigarh in India

according to population wise ?
Ans. 29th
 Q. Who is the Finance Secretary of
Chandigarh ?

Ans. Ajay Kumar Sinha, IAS 

Q. Who is the Home Secretary of Chandigarh ?

Ans. Anurag Aggarwal, IAS

Q. Who is the chairman of Chandigarh

Housing Board ?
Ans. Maninder Singh, IAS
 Q. Who is the Deputy Commissioner of
Chandigarh ?

Ans. Ajit Balaji Joshi, IAS

Q. Who is the Adviser to the Administrator of

Chandigarh ?

Ans. Parimal Rai, IAS

 • Chandigarh surrounding districts are of Mohali,
Patiala and Ropar in Punjab and Panchkula and
Ambala in Haryana .

• AJITGARH Also known as SAS Nagar and

MOHALI .
Establish in 2006 carved out from Ropar and Patiala
district.
( 18th District of Punjab).

• Panchkula district was formed as the 17th district

of Haryana state  in India  on 15 August 1995.

• Panchkula, along with Mohali and Chandigarh is

called Tricity
 Politics
• Present member of Parliament – Kirron
Kher (BJP). Prior to her, Mr. Pawan
Bansal of Congress was MP from
Chandigarh and first member of
parliament from .

• 1st Member of parliament from

Chandigarh was Chand Goyal (BJS) .
• Chandigarh has only 1 Lok Sabha seat.
 Lok Sabha constituencies in Punjab

TOTAL – 13
1.GURDASPUR
2.AMRITSAR
3.KHADDOOR SAHIB
4 .HOSHIARPUR
5. JALANDHAR
6.ANANDPUR SAHIB
7.LUDHIANA
8FARIDKOT
9.FATEHGARH SAHIB
10.FIROZPUR.
11. BATHINDA
12. SANGRUR
13. PATIALA
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 • TOTAL RAJYA SABHA constituencies in Punjab-7

• The maximum strength of the LOK SABHA - 552.

Currently 545 seats which is made up by election of up
to 543 elected members and at a maximum, 2
nominated members.

• The maximum strength of the RAJYA SABHA-250.

• MAXIMUM LOK SABHA AND RAJYA SABHA SETS IN

UTTAR PARDESH 80 AND 30 RESPECTIVALY.

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• There are total 10
parliamentary seats
 (constituency) in Haryana

• Total Rajya sabha seats

in Haryana is - 5
 Punjab Engineering College
• Punjab Engineering College, is an engineering
institute located in the city of Chandigarh Sector -12,
 India.

• Founded in 1921, it is one of the oldest educational

institutes in India.
• Director : Dr. Manoj K Arora

• Campus: 146 acres (59 ha), Urban

• PEC University of Technology celebrated its

96  foundation day on 9  November 2017
th th
 DAV College, Chandigarh
• DAV College in Chandigarh, India, was
founded in 1958. It is situated in sector-10
near Hotel
Mount view .

• DAV college, Chandigarh, is affiliated

with Panjab University, Chandigarh. It is
managed by the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic
College Trust and Management Society.
 Q. Originally Chandigarh was planned for total
population of ?

Ans. 5 lakhs.

Q. Chandigarh Police comes under direct control

of ?

Ans. Department of Home Affairs

Chandigarh Emergency help line No.
s
• Women & Child Helpline No. - 1091

• For any Senior Citizens Complaint – 1090

• Traffic Related Emergency

Dial - 1073
Q. In which year Chandigarh international air
port start its services ?

Ans. 1970  (Indian Airlines started operating

and 1st flights from Chandigarh to Delhi in the
1970s).

Q. How many women police station are in

Chandigarh ?

Ans. Only one (1st Women Police Station on

29.08.2015 at Home Guard Building, Sector –
17, Chandigarh.)
Q. How many villages are in Chandigarh ?

Ans. 23

Q. Name of the train that travels Longest

route from Chandigarh ?

Ans. Sampark Kranti Express

Distance travelled 3,398 km

Chandigarh - Kochuveli Railway Station

 PEPSU - Stands for Patiala and East Punjab State
Union Created on 15th July 1948 .

It comprised 8 formerly Princely States. Patiala,

Nabha, Jind, Kapurthala, Faridkot and Kalsian was
sikh ruled and Nalagarh was hindu ruled and
Malerkotla was muslim ruled.

Rajparmukh of PEPSU was Maha. Yadvindra Singh of

patiala
and Up – Raj Parmukh was Jagjit Singh of Kapurthala.

CAPITAL - PATIALA
Q. When was PEPSU merged
with Punjab.
Ans. 1956
 Q.Which Punjabi person served as
the 3rd Chief Minister of Delhi?

Ans: Madanlal Khurana 
[He also served as Governor of Rajasthan
in 2004]
 FACTS ABOUT SHRI GURU GRANTH
SAHIB
• It consists of 1430 pages also called angs in
Punjabi and the hymns are written in 31 ragas and
contains 5894 hymns (shabads). It includes the
baanis of :

• First five gururs and the Ninth guru

• 15 bhagats and 11 bhatts.

• Bhatts were the poets of Gurus courts

 Name of Guru Shabads (Hymns)

Guru Nanak Dev 974

Guru Angad Dev 62

Guru Amar Das 907

Guru Ram Das 679

Guru Arjun Dev 2218

Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib 115

 Bani of Bhagats Number of Their Shlokas

Bhagat Kabir 541

Bhagat Namdev 60

Bhagat Ravi Das 41

Bhagat Baba Farid 134