States PCS: West Bengal GK Questions for WBPSC Examinations

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The song Jana Gana Mana was selected as national anthem by Subhas Chandra Bose while he was in Germany. It was also adopted as a school song of The Doon School, Dehradun in 1935.

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Chittaranjan Das brought out a newspaper called Forward and later changed its name to Liberty as part of his support for various anti-British movements in India. He was a believer in non-violence and constitutional methods for the realisation of national independence, and advocated Hindu-Muslim unity, cooperation and communal harmony and championed the cause of national education.

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Dharma Sabha, The was an association of orthodox Hindus which was established in Calcutta in January 1830 opposing the government regulation to abolish the age old Hindu practice of sati.

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Dwijendralal Ray (19 July 1863 – 17 May 1913), also known as D. L. Ray, was an Indian poet, playwright, and musician. He was known for his Hindu mythological and nationalist historical plays and songs known as Dwijendrageeti or the Songs of Dwijendralal, which number over 500, create a separate subgenre of Bengali music.

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Not only Hindu activists, but also Muslim statesmen originated or spent time in Midnapore. Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy Second Chief Minister of Bengal during British Period, Prominent leader of Awami league, a major political party in Bangladesh, and the fifth Prime Minister of Pakistan, hailed from a prominent family of Midnapore.

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Midnapore is the district headquarters of Paschim Medinipur. Kharagpur is the largest city in the district. Other important towns and cities in the district include: Kharagpur, Ghatal, Belda, Chandrakona, Ramjibanpur, Garbeta, Balichak etc.

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Purulia, bordering Jharkhand, is the coldest place in West Bengal. Bankura district followed right after with 7.6 degrees, 8 degrees below normal, with Sriniketan in Birbhum district registering 8 degrees and Burdwan 8.5 degree, said met department sources.

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Durgapur is one of the biggest industrial hubs of West Bengal and was planned as an integrated industrial town. The first project in Durgapur was Damodar Valley Corporation’s Durgapur Barrage which attracted many public sector units.

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50 percent of total exports of West Bengal go to Asian countries. Among these, East Asia and ASEAN countries account for about 39 percent of total exports. West Asia and North America are the two other major export destinations from West Bengal.

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West Bengal, which is the midst of a high-pitched assembly election, accounts for the highest collection of about Rs 90,000 crore from small savings schemes such as NSC and PPF among the states and union territories, which is about 15 per cent of the total corpus. It is followed by Uttar Pradesh, the largest state in terms of population, with gross collection of Rs 69,660.70 crore out of the Rs 5.96 lakh crore garnered during 2017-18 (last updated), as per data collated by the National Savings Institute under the finance ministry.