The Ganga plain is most important plain of India. The gangetic plain covers more than a fourth of the country’s total surface. The alluvial fertile soil is very suitable for cultivation of different cereals, pulses and nuts. So bulk of the population resides in this plain area.

A – Mahe
B – Karaikal
C – Podicherry
D – Yanam

In the given figure of India, Mica is found in all the states of India like Jharkhand, Orissa, Bihar, Rajasthan, Bombay, Karnataka, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh.

In the given map, the shaded area indicates the tropical wet and dry region, where the mean temperature for the month of July varies between 27.5ºC – 30ºC.

Mekong – Ganga Cooperation (MGC) was established on November 10, 2000 at Vientiane in the First MGC Ministerial Meeting. It comprises six Member countries namely, India, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. They emphasised four areas of cooperation, which are tourism, culture, education, and transportation linkage in order to be solid foundation for future trade and investment cooperation in the region.

Both assertion and reasons are true and reason is correct explanation of assertion. In north India, a feeble high-pressure region develops, with light winds moving outwards from this area. Influenced by the relief, these winds blow through the Ganga valley from west and north west, which forms an anticyclonic condition in northern part of India.

According to the data of 2000, the power generation is 95000 MW. Nuclear plants contribute 2% of total power generation. Hydroelectricity plants contribute 25% of total production and 73% is contributed by thermal power plants.

The Aravallis range are the oldest mountain in India. The approximate age of the Aravallis is 670 million years.

The correct sequence of eastward flowing river of the peninsular India from north to south is Subarnarekha, Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna, Pennar, Cauvery and Vagai.

Indian railway is the fourth largest railway in the world after USA, Russia and China. National Highways is nearly 2% (1.96%) of total roads, but it carries nearly 40 – 45% of road traffic of India.
Maharashtra has the highest density of the surface roads, not Kerala, National Highway No. 7 is the longest in the country which joins Varanasi to Kanyakumari.

The climatic condition of Chennai is tropical savanna type where the average annual temperature of meterological station is 26ºC and average rainfall is 63 cm and annual range temperature is 9ºC.

The sea coast of Orissa is famous as a nesting place for giant olive Ridley turtles from South America.

As per data of 2010–11. The source of irrigation in India is
Tube wells – 45%
Canals – 26%
Wells – 19%
Others – 7%

Open stunted forests with bushes and small trees having long roots and sharp thorns or spines are commonly found in the area where the rainfall is less than 80 cm. Such areas are found in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Haryana and western Andhra Pradesh.

Achra Ratnagiri Mangrove is in Maharashtra, Coondapur Mangrove is in Karnataka, Pichavaram Mangrove is in Tamil Nadu and Vembanad Mangrove is in Kerala.

The correct sequence of the river in descending order of their lengths are Godavari (1465 km), Narmada (1312 km), Mahanadi (858 km) and Tapti (724 km).

As per the census 2001, West Bengal has the highest population density of 904, Kerala has 819, Madhya Pradesh has 196 and Uttar Pradesh has 689.

Nanda Devi peak are a part of Kumaon Himalayas located in Chamoli district of Uttaranchal.

Bangalore is the city which is 937 metres above sea level, Delhi is 218 metres sea level, Jodhpur is 230 metres and Nagpur is 247.5 metres above the sea level.