Where is the Herbal Research and Development Institute of Uttarakhand situated?
- (a)Jageshwar
- (b)Gopeshwar
- (c)Ramnagar
- (d)Bageshwar
Correct — B, Gopeshwar.
The Herbal Research and Development Institute is Uttarakhand's own body for medicinal and aromatic plants. It was established at Gopeshwar in 1989 and works as a nodal agency of the Uttarakhand Medicinal Plant Board.
Its published postal address reads Mandal-Gopeshwar, Chamoli, Uttarakhand — 246401. So the town in the option list that matches is Gopeshwar, the headquarters town of Chamoli district.
Carry away the district along with the town: HRDI sits in Chamoli, the upper-Alaknanda district whose higher reaches carry the Himalayan herb species the institute works on.
- (a)Jageshwar — Jageshwar lies in Almora district, in the Jataganga valley of Kumaon. Its fame is religious and archaeological: it is the answer to the cluster of ancient stone temples known as Jageshwar Dham.
The herbal institute's own address places it at Mandal-Gopeshwar in Chamoli — a different district, and in Garhwal rather than Kumaon.
- (c)Ramnagar — Ramnagar sits in Nainital district, at the foot of the hills where the plains meet the forest belt. It is the answer to the gateway town and administrative base of Corbett Tiger Reserve.
Its standing associations are tiger conservation and forest administration. The herbal institute's seat is Gopeshwar, high up in Chamoli.
- (d)Bageshwar — Bageshwar is a district headquarters in Kumaon, at the meeting point of the Saryu and Gomti rivers. It is the answer to the Bagnath temple town and the site of the Uttarayani fair.
Its name shares the '-eshwar' ending with Gopeshwar, but the institute's district is Chamoli, not Bageshwar.
The Herbal Research and Development Institute (HRDI) is an autonomous institute of the Uttarakhand government working on medicinal and aromatic plants, and a nodal agency of the Uttarakhand Medicinal Plant Board.
It was established at Gopeshwar in 1989. Gopeshwar is the district headquarters of Chamoli, and the institute's address is given as Mandal-Gopeshwar.
Uttarakhand's Himalayan districts hold high-altitude medicinal herb habitats, and cultivating and conserving them is handled at the state level through the medicinal plant board and HRDI.
For the exam, the useful part is the pairing itself: a named state institution tied to a named Uttarakhand town, and behind it the district. Learning the town alone leaves you exposed when the same fact is asked by district.
- The Herbal Research and Development Institute was established at Gopeshwar in 1989.
- Its address is given as Mandal-Gopeshwar, Chamoli, Uttarakhand — 246401.
- HRDI is an autonomous institute of the Uttarakhand government.
- HRDI functions as a nodal agency of the Uttarakhand Medicinal Plant Board.
- Gopeshwar is the district headquarters of Chamoli district.
- Jageshwar, in Almora district, is known for its cluster of ancient stone temples.
- Ramnagar, in Nainital district, is the gateway town for Corbett Tiger Reserve.
- Bageshwar town lies at the confluence of the Saryu and Gomti rivers and holds the Bagnath temple.
The four options are Uttarakhand towns with quite separate associations; only the Gopeshwar row is about a research institute.
- Three of the four options end in '-eshwar' — Jageshwar, Gopeshwar, Bageshwar — so a memory that stores only the ending gives no help; store the district, Chamoli, alongside the town.
- The institute's address reads 'Mandal-Gopeshwar'. Reading Mandal as the town and then hunting for it in the options wastes time, because the option list carries the Gopeshwar half of that address.
- Several of Uttarakhand's better-known research institutes are seated in Dehradun — the Forest Research Institute, the Wildlife Institute of India and the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing — while HRDI's seat is Gopeshwar.
- Jageshwar, Ramnagar and Bageshwar each carry a strong and correct association of their own — temples, tiger reserve, river confluence — which can feel like recall even when it answers a different question.
Institute-location items name a body and ask for its seat, and the same fact can be turned round: a town is named and you must say which institution sits there.
Facts of this shape also appear inside match-the-list sets, where an institute column is paired with a location column. It could equally be asked by district, with Chamoli rather than Gopeshwar among the options.
UKPSC_2016_PRE_PaperI_Q832016The same task in the same exam family: a named research institute is given and the seat has to be recalled from four place names. What differs is the scale and the geography — that item asks for the seat of a national grain storage training institute, with options spread across India, while this one keeps all four options inside Uttarakhand, so district knowledge does the work.
CDS_GK_2022_II_Q582022Identical framing — 'X Research Institute is situated at' followed by four place names. The difference is ownership: that institute is a central body and the options are cities spread across several states — Bilaspur and Raipur in Chhattisgarh, Ranchi, and New Delhi — whereas HRDI is an autonomous state institute and the choice is between four towns of one state.
UPSC_2000_GS1_Q162000Tests the same institute-to-location recall, but packaged as a match-the-list set pairing four institutes with their cities rather than a single direct question. It shows the other shape this fact can take; the institutes there are national ones, not a state herbal research body.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Herbal Research and Development Institute of Uttarakhand is located in which district?
- (a)Almora
- (b)Nainital
- (c)Chamoli
- (d)Bageshwar
Answerc — the institute's address is Mandal-Gopeshwar, Chamoli, so Chamoli is its district.Almora is the district of Jageshwar, Nainital the district of Ramnagar, and Bageshwar its own district headquarters town; the institute's seat lies in none of them.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Gopeshwar is the district headquarters of which district of Uttarakhand?
- (a)Rudraprayag
- (b)Chamoli
- (c)Pithoragarh
- (d)Uttarkashi
Answerb — Gopeshwar is the headquarters town of Chamoli district.Rudraprayag, Pithoragarh and Uttarkashi districts each take their headquarters from the town of the same name, so none of them is administered from Gopeshwar.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which institute functions as a nodal agency of the Uttarakhand Medicinal Plant Board?
- (a)Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
- (b)Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun
- (c)Herbal Research and Development Institute, Gopeshwar
- (d)Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun
Answerc — the Herbal Research and Development Institute at Gopeshwar functions as a nodal agency of the Uttarakhand Medicinal Plant Board, and is itself an autonomous institute of the Uttarakhand government.The Forest Research Institute works on forestry research, the Wildlife Institute of India on wildlife science and training, and the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing on geospatial training — central research bodies with different mandates; none of them is the Board's nodal agency, which is HRDI.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which Uttarakhand town is best known as the gateway to the Corbett Tiger Reserve?
- (a)Ramnagar
- (b)Gopeshwar
- (c)Jageshwar
- (d)Bageshwar
Answera — Ramnagar in Nainital district is the gateway town and administrative base for the Corbett Tiger Reserve.Gopeshwar is the Chamoli headquarters that hosts the Herbal Research and Development Institute, Jageshwar is the temple site in Almora district, and Bageshwar is the Saryu-Gomti confluence town with the Bagnath temple.