UP SPECIFIC NOTES

1. Population [Census 2011]- 19.98 crore [16.5% of India], Brazil [21.26

crore, 2020], Pakistan- 22 Cr, Bangladesh- 16.47 Cr.
2. Highest decadal growth rate of Population [UP]-
3. Decadal Population growth rate [2001-11]- 20.2%
4. Share in total geographical area of India- 7.33%
5. Sex Ratio- 912
6. Launched new population policy 2021-30 on July 11, 2021.

1. State Emblem: Two fish and one bow in a circle, adopted Palaeolithic Age
in 1938. 1. Stone tools found in Singhrauli valley in Sonbhadra,
2. State Tree: Ashoka (Saraca asoca) Chakia in Chandauli, Parisdhia, Mahuagarh etc., in Belan
3. State Flower: Palash (Butea monosperma) valley (Prayagraj).
4. State Language: 1st-Hindi (1947), 2nd-Urdu (1989) 2. Materials built from bones in region of the Belan valley.
5. State Foundation Day: January 24, 1950 Mesolithic Age
6. State Animal: Swamp Deer (Rucervus duvaucelii) 1. Evidences are found from Pratapgarh, Sonbhadra and
(Barasingha) Mirzapur.
7. State Bird: Sarus Crane (Grus antigone) 2. Huts and pottery found from Chopani Mando (Prayagraj).
8. State Sport: Field Hockey Neolithic Age

1. Paddy farming from Koldihwa.

2. Evidences of this period also found from Sonbhadra
and
Mirzapur.
Period of Mahajanpadas
1. 16 Mahajanapadas find mention in the
literature such as
Anguttara Nikaya, Maha Vastu (Buddhist
literatures)
and Bhagwati Sutra (Jain literature).
Indus Valley Civilization 2. 8 Mahajanpadas located in UP are:
1. Urban settlement found in the regions of Meerut a. Kuru (Delhi, Meerut and Thaneshwar)
(Alamgirpur), Baghpat (Badagaon) and Saharanpur with capital
(Hulas). Indraprastha.
2. Alamgirpur was discovered on the banks of river b. Chedi (Bundelkhand) with capital
Hindon, Suktimati.
under the direction of Yag Dutt Sharma. c. Kashi (Varanasi) with capital Varanasi.
3. Remains were also found from Muzaffarnagar and d. Vatsa (Prayagraj) with capital Kausambi.
Bulandshahar. e. Shrusena (Mathura) with capital Mathura.
4. Hulas f. Panchal (Farrukhabad, Budaun, Bareilly)
5. Mandi with
capital Ahichhatra and Kampilya.
g. Malla (Kushinagar) with capital Kushinagar
and
Pava.
h. Kosala (Awadh) with capital Ayodhaya and
Shravasti.
Mauryan
Ashokan Pillars and Major Rock Edicts in UP
1. Sarnath: Lion Capital
2. Sankisa: Elephant Captial
3. Topra: Inscription
4. Kaushambi and Ahraura: Minor Rock Edicts
5. Meerut: Inscription
6. Prayagraj (Allahabad): Pillar edicts I-VI
Devgarh Dasavatar Temple in UP.
UP is divided into 9 Agro-climatic zones.
Peasant Movement in UP
Session of Indian National Congress in UP
1. Uttar Pradesh Kisan Sabha, 1918: Indra
1. Allahabad (Prayagraj), 1888- George Yule
Narayan
2. Allahabad (Prayagraj), 1892- Womesh Chandra
Dwivedi, Madan Mohan Malviya and Gauri
Bonnerjee
Shankar
3. Lucknow, 1899- Ramesh Chandra Dutt
Mishra
4. Varanasi, 1905- Gopal Krishna Gokhale
2. Awadh Kisan Sabha, 1920: Baba
5. Allahabad (Prayagraj), 1910- William Wedderburn
Ramchandra
6. Lucknow, 1916- Ambica Charan Mazumdar
3. Eka Movement, 1921: Madari Pasi
7. Kanpur, 1925- Sarojni Naidu
4. All India Kisan Sabha, 1936: Indulal
8. Lucknow, 1936- Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
Yagnik, NG Ranga
9. Meerut, 1946- JB Kripalani
and Swami Sahajanad.
Area Wise
1. Lakhimpur Khiri- 7680 sq. km
2. Sonbhadra- 6788 sq. km
3. Prayagraj- 5482
Population Wise
4. Mirzapur- 4521
1. PRAYAGRAJ [Highest]-
5. JAUNPUR- 4038
2. Mooradabad-
6. Barabanki- 3894
3. Ghaziabad
7. Ghazipur- 3377
4. Azamgarh
8. Varanasi- 1535
5. Lucknow
9. Gautam Buddha Nagar- 1442
6. Lalitpur
10. Baghpat- 1321
7. Shravasti
11. Bhadohi [Gyanpur- district headquarter] Mayawati
8. Hamirpur
government changed this district's name from Bhadohi
9. Chitrakoot
to Sant Ravidas Nagar (S.R.N.). Akhilesh Yadav
10. Mahoba [Lowest]
government resolved on 6 December 2014 to change
the
name back to Bhadohi. - 1055
12. Hapur- 660
Female Literacy
1. Kanpur Nagar [Highest]- 72.5%
Literacy [UP= , M= 77.3%, F=57.2%] Male Literacy
2. Lucknow- 61.22%
1. Highest 1.
3. Etawah- 58.49%
4. Lowest- Shrawasti [46.74%]
Child Sex Ratio
Decadal Growth Rate Sex Ratio 1. Highest-
1. Maximum- Gautam Buddha Nagar 1. Highest- Jaunpur Balrampur
2. Least- Kanpur Nagar 2. Lowest- Gautam Buddha Nagar 2. Lowest-
Bagpat
 Scheduled Caste [20.7% of total
Scheduled Tribe [.6% of total population] population]
1. Highest- Sonbhadra [3.85 lakh] 1. Sitapur [Maximum]- 14.46 Lakh Population Density
2. Lowest- Bagpat [14] 2. Prayagraj-
3. Lowest- Bagpat- 1.49 Lakh
Ramsar Wetland Sites
1. Upper Ganga river (Bulandshahr)
2. Saman Bird Sanctuary [Mainpuri district]
3. Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary [Unnao district]
4. Samaspur Bird Sanctuary [Raebareli district] Lakes
5. Sandi Bird Sanctuary [Hardoi district] [also 1. Sauj Lake- Mainpuri
designated as 2. Shekha Lake- Aligarh
Important Bird Area by Birdlife international] 3. Bakhira Lake- Sant Kabir Nagar
6. Parvati Arga Bird Sanctuary (Gonda) 4. Sarsayi Lake- Etawah
7. Sarsai Nawar Jheel [Etawah district]
8. Keetham Lake is in Sur Sarovar Bird Sanctuary,
Agara.
Man-made reservoir.
1. On river Dhasan.
2. Irrigation facilities to 1.5 lakh
farmers across 168 villages of
Banda, Mahoba and Hamirpur.
Arjuna Sahayak
3. Use of surplus water of river
Irrigation Project
Dhasan during monsoon to fill
existing Arjun, Chandrawal and
Kabrai Dam, through feeder
channel from Lahchura Dam.
Eco-sensitive areas having 3 WHS-
Taj Trapezium Zone Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Fatehpur
Sikri
Smart Cities from UP
1. Lucknow
2. Varanasi
GI Tags-
3. Kanpur
1. Banaras Brocades and Sarees,
4. Bareilly
2. Lucknow Zardozi,
5. Moradabad
3. Kalanamak Rice,
6. Saharanpur
4. Kannauj Perfume,
7. Agara
5. Khurja Pottery
8. Jhansi
9. Aligarh
10. Prayagraj
Product
UNESCO Heritage Sites:
1. Garlic- Mainpuri
1. Agra Fort
2. Onion- Ghazipur
2. Taj Mahal
3. Chilli- Deoria
3. Fatehpur Sikri
4. Turmeric- Lalitpur
MUSIC
1. Amir Khusro was born in Patiali village of Kasganj
district. He developed the Khayal style of singing and
invented Sitar and
Tabla.
2. Swami Haridas was born in Aligarh, but he spent
his life in Vrindavan. Tansen was his disciple. He is
considered as the
originator of Dhrupad-Dhamar style. Dhrupad Mela is
 organized every year in Mathura.
3. Tansen died in Agra.
Folk Song
1. Chaiti- Eastern UP
2. Alha- Bundelkhand
Folk Dance
3. Birha- Purvanchal
1. Dhuria- by Kumhars of Bundelkhand
4. Kajri- Awadh; comes in the
2. Charkula- Braj region, veiled women balancing
series of season songs, like
large
Chaiti, Hori and Sawani.
multi-tiered circular wooden pyramids on their heads
5. Dadra- a light classical vocal
dance to songs about Krishna.
form in Hindustani classical
3. Karma
music, mostly performed in Agra
4. Nautanki,
and in Bundelkhand
5. Raslila,
region.
6. Jhora,
6. Sohar is sung to celebrate birth
7. Chappeli,
of a child
8. Jaita.
7. Kaharwa which is sung by Kahar
caste at the time of
wedding
Pandit Rajan Mishra: Hindustani classical singer,
from
‘Banaras Gharana’ of India, passed away.
Unique FACTS
1. 1ST state to present paperless budget
[February 22, 2021]
2. 1ST Leather park of India- Kanpur.
3. 1st state to establish Startup Fund. [Rs. 1000
Crore]
4. Major Dhyanchand Vijaypath Yojana- 28 August
2021.
5. Rank 1 in e-Panchayat Award 2021.
6. 1ST rank in Ethanol Production.

7. Solar Energy Policy 2017: Target of 10,700 MW solar energy production by 2022.
8. Film city in Gautam Buddha Nagar
9. Chandauli is known as Rice bowl. CM launched fortified rice scheme for Chandauli.
10. 1ST in India to have to expressway strips.
11. Shravasti district of Uttar Pradesh topped the Aspirational Districts Ranking of Niti Aayog in December
2020.
12. UP Cabinet has decided to set up a panchayat secretariat in all panchayats of the state. [There are around
58,189 gram
panchayats in UP.]
13. Vulture conservation centre- U.P.’s Maharajganj district.
14. Introduced a system of unique 16-digit Unicode to mark all kinds of landholdings in the state. first 6
digits is based on the
population of the land, next 4 digit determines the identity of the land, next 4 digit based on the number of
divisions of
the land and last 2 digit based on the category of the land (agricultural, residential and commercial land)
15. Defence Industrial corridor: 6 nodes – Aligarh, Agra, Kanpur, Chitrakoot, Jhansi and Lucknow.
16. Ganga Expressway: around 594 km long, a 6-lane wide (expandable to eight lanes) greenfield expressway.
Connect
Meerut in west Uttar Pradesh to Prayagraj. It will be 2nd longest expressway of India.
17. Agra-Lucknow Expressway: length- 302km, Connects- Agra, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Itawa, Auriya, Kannauj,
Kanpur, Unnao,
Hardoi and Lucknow districts.
18. MyGov-Meri Sarkar’ portal: UP Govt.
19. The tableau of Uttar Pradesh given the Best Tableau Award on Republic Day Parade
20. UP govt organised a three-day ‘Kalanamak Rice Festival’ in the Siddharthnagar district from March 13,
2021.
21. 'Bal sewa yojna': children, who became orphaned during the pandemic.
22. Special Security Force for Industrial Security in UP.
23. Ramgarh Lake becomes UP’s first notified wetland.
24. Memorial of Param Vir Chakra awardee Captain Manoj Pandey at his native village Rura in Sitapur.
25. Van Mahotsav program [first week of July 2021.]: target of planting 30 crore sapling [actual achieved-
25.75 crore, 4 days]
26. Smart City Awards 2020: UP topped. Indore (MP) and Surat (Guj) jointly won the award for their overall
development.
27. Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) battalions will be established after women warriors- Rani Avantibai
Lodhi, Uda Devi,
and Jhalkaribai who sacrificed themselves in India’s freedom struggle, in Badaun, Lucknow, and Gorakhpur.
28. UP Cabinet has given its nod to change 2 more cities – Kanpur and Varanasi – into police Commissionerate.
[Earlier
Lucknow and Gautam Budh Nagar (Noida) districts.]
29. UP State with maximum international airports. Will soon have five international airports. Jewar
international airport is
coming up in the NCR region, will be ready by 2023. International airport in Ayodhya is expected to start in
early 2023.
Upcoming Kushinagar airport wiil be the 3rd licensed international airport in UP.
30. The UP govt imposed Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) in state on 27 May'21. The act will be
imposed for next 6
months.
31. Manduadih railway station renamed as Banaras.
32. UP government secures first rank in disbursing loans under the PM Atmanirbhar Nidhi Scheme (SVANidhi
Scheme).
33. Uttar Pradesh becomes top tourist destination for Indians, third for foreigners in 2019.
34. Pilibhit Tiger Reserve gets global award for doubling tiger population.
35. Strawberry festival in Jhansi. Jaggery festival in Lucknow [at Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research,
Lucknow].
36. UP Government has decided to turn Varanasi and Amroha into the new hub of vegetable and fruit exports
37. Lucknow-based Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO), which sets standards for the
railway sector, has
become the first standards body in the country to join the central government’s ‘One Nation, One Standard’
scheme.
38. 2nd Phase of Mission Shakti: 8TH March 2021, 1st Adarsh Mahila Barrack’ was also inaugurated in Mahila
Thana,
Muzaffarnagar.
39. Gomati has been declared as Biological disaster due to environmental pollution.
40. UP Got started ODOP Scheme on 24 January 2018.
41. Ayodhya
a. Chaurasi Kosi Marg declared a National Highway.
b. Ramayana Museum to be established on 10 acres of land at Ramasnehi Ghat between Ayodhya and
Lucknow.
c. Shri Ram University.
d. Ramayan Cruise Service’ will be launched on the river Saryu
e. Ayodhya Airport [provision of `101 crore]
42. Aligarh
a. Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University.
43. NOIDA
a. Knowledge Park
b. Microsoft has launched its new India Development Center (IDC) facility in Noida.
c. 1st pod taxi running between Noida Airport and Noida Film City.
d. Chandro Tomar shooting range. [Oldest shooter in the world]
e. Electronic park in 250 acres near Jewar Airport.
f. Medical device park.
g. First handicraft Park proposed.
h. Indian Institute of Heritage to be set up.
44. Ghaziabad
a. 2ND most polluted city in the world [1ST - China's Hotan province]
b. First-ever green bond issuance by any Municipal Corporation in the country. [raised `150 Crores]
c. District with highest population density
d. District with maximum urban population
45. Kushinagar
a. Banana Festival
b. international airport in Kushinagar
46. Lucknow

a. Guru Govind Singh Sports College

b. Lalit Kala Academy
c. Bhatkhande Sangeet Sanathan
d. UP Police and Forensic Science Institute.
e. UP State Institute of forensic sciences [will be governed by Gujarat-based National Forensic Sciences
University].
f. Central Drug Research Institute
g. Biotechnology Park
h. Kisan Kalyan mission launched from Dadupur village of Lucknow
i. Nirbhaya-Ek Pahal” program launched under Shakti Phase-3.
j. Residential Hockey centre of excellence
k. Lucknow Metro becomes the first metro in the country to use ultraviolet (UV) rays to sanitise train
coaches.
l. To set up an Ambedkar Cultural Centre at Aishbagh (Eidgah) in Lucknow.
m. Craft Museum
n. Science City
47. Meerut
a. War memorial of animals [1ST animal war memorial of India]
b. 1ST Sports university of UP
48. MATHURA
a. PepsiCo commissions Rs 814 crore food plant
b. Honey FPO.
49. Pryagraj
a. Uttar Pradesh National Law University.
b. Munishwar Nath Acting Chief Justice of Allahabad HC
50. Varanasi
a. Kasi Vidyapeeth- Founder- Babu Shiv Prasad Gupta.
b. International Cooperation and Convention centre- Rudraksh in Varanasi [constructed with Japanese
assistance].
c. Dhrupad Fair
d. Rajan Mishra Covid Hospital
e. KVIC launches SPIN Scheme to empower potters' community. Pottery cluster in Varanasi under SFURTI.
f. Directorate of Religious Affairs (DRA)
g. Gram Ujala Yojana started in Varanasi- 1.5 crore LED bulbs will be distributed in the villages of 5 districts.
h. South Asian Regional Centre of International Rice Research Institute.
51. Chitrakoot
a. Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University [Chitrakoot]. 1st university in India and the world
which is
only for disabled people.
b. Rasin Dam & Chillimal Dam; Rasin Dam on Banganga river.
52. Gorakhpur
a. Situated on the bank of Rapti river.
b. 1ST AYUSH University of UP. AYUSH Dept in UP established in 2017.
c. Shaheed Ashfaq Ullah Khan Prani Udyan or Gorakhpur Zoological Garden.
d. International Bird Festival [Feb 2021]
e. 5th Sainik School in Gorakhpur
f. India's first Vulture Conservation and breeding centre
g. Headquarter of NE Railway
h. Ramgarh Lake
i. District with maximum rainfall.
53. Agra
a. Central Leprosy Institute
b. UP State leather development and marketing corporation
c. Agra the Metro rail.
d. Desikan Bhawan: dedicated to research facilities like animal experimentation, COVID-19 diagnosis,
whole
genome sequencing, etc.
54. Kanpur
a. Indian Institute of Sugar technology
b. J K Temple
c. President Ram Nath Kovind reached Paraunkh in his native village of Kanpur Dehat.
d. India’s first mega Leather Park to be set up in Kanpur
e. Chakeri Airport
f. Manchester of North India
55. Saharanpur
a. School of Paper technology
b. Philatelic Museum
56. Vrindavan [Mathura]
a. Peacock Sanctuary.
57. Bareilly
a. Trishul Airport: 56th airport under the UDAN scheme.
58. Bahraich
a. Maharaja Suheldev Memorial.
b. Chittaura Lake
59. Kannauj

a. State archaeological museum