With reference to Western Uttar Pradesh, which of the following statements is/are correct ? 1. Western region of U.P. is much more developed compared to other regions. 2. The region has witnessed the Green Revolution. Select the correct answer from the code given below : Code :
- (a)Both 1 and 2
- (b)Only 1
- (c)Neither 1 nor 2
- (d)Only 2
Correct — A, Both 1 and 2. Statement 2 is the firmer of the two and is documented plainly: when India's foodgrain output rose after the mid-1960s, the gains were concentrated in Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, the three tracts that already had the canal irrigation, tubewells, assured power and market access that high-yielding wheat varieties required. Western Uttar Pradesh is part of the original Green Revolution belt, not a later beneficiary of it. Statement 1 is the standard finding of Uttar Pradesh regional economics rather than a single published number: measured on per-capita income, literacy, urbanisation, road density or industrial concentration — the NCR districts of Gautam Buddha Nagar and Ghaziabad sit in this region — western Uttar Pradesh runs well ahead of Bundelkhand and Purvanchal. That intra-state gap is not a contested claim; it is the reason successive governments have set up regional development boards and the reason proposals to divide the state keep resurfacing. This card states the gap as a broadly documented regional pattern and deliberately attaches no invented figure to it.
- (b)Only 1 — Accepts the development gap but rejects the Green Revolution. That is the wrong half to reject: western Uttar Pradesh is named alongside Punjab and Haryana in the standard account of where India's foodgrain production rose after the mid-1960s. If anything, statement 2 is the better-evidenced of the two.
- (c)Neither 1 nor 2 — Rejects both, and there is no reading on which either is false. The Green Revolution belt demonstrably included western Uttar Pradesh, and the region's lead over Bundelkhand and Purvanchal is the premise of the state's own regional development policy.
- (d)Only 2 — The more tempting refusal, for a candidate who is wary of the word 'much' in statement 1. But the intra-state disparity is not a marginal claim — it is why Bundelkhand has a dedicated development package and why demands to split Uttar Pradesh recur. Rejecting statement 1 rejects the settled regional picture.
Uttar Pradesh is conventionally read as four economic regions. Western Uttar Pradesh covers the Meerut, Saharanpur, Moradabad, Aligarh and Agra divisions and the upper Doab generally; it is the state's irrigated, urbanised, industrialised belt, running on sugarcane and wheat and pulled further by the National Capital Region at its western edge. Central Uttar Pradesh, around Lucknow and Kanpur, is the middle case. Bundelkhand, in the south, is the poorest — rain-shadow, drought-prone, thin soils, chronic distress migration. Purvanchal, the east, carries the state's densest rural population on the smallest holdings. The wider the gap between these four, the more the state's aggregate indicators mislead.
Read the two statements independently before touching the options, because the option layout in this paper is not the usual one: here (a) is 'Both 1 and 2', (b) is 'Only 1', (c) is 'Neither 1 nor 2' and (d) is 'Only 2'. A candidate who reaches for a remembered position rather than reading the printed text will misfire. On the substance, statement 2 should be accepted quickly — the Green Revolution belt is Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh in every standard account. Statement 1 is where the hesitation comes, because 'much more developed' sounds like an overstatement. It is not: the western region's lead over Bundelkhand and Purvanchal is the organising fact of Uttar Pradesh's regional policy. Both stand, so both are marked.
- The Green Revolution's foodgrain gains were concentrated in Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh — the region is part of the original belt
- Western Uttar Pradesh had the canal irrigation, tubewells, assured power and market access that high-yielding wheat varieties needed; sugarcane and wheat dominate its cropping
- The four regions conventionally used for Uttar Pradesh are Western UP, Central UP, Bundelkhand and Purvanchal
- Western Uttar Pradesh leads the other regions on the usual development indicators — per-capita income, literacy, urbanisation, road density, industrial concentration — a broadly documented pattern rather than a single published statistic
- The NCR districts of Gautam Buddha Nagar and Ghaziabad lie in this region and pull its aggregates further up
- The intra-state gap is the standing rationale for regional development boards and for recurring proposals to divide Uttar Pradesh
Both statements in the question describe the highlighted row. Western Uttar Pradesh is where the Green Revolution's wheat gains concentrated, and it is the region that runs ahead of the other three on the usual development indicators — so the answer is 'Both 1 and 2', which in this paper is option (a).
- Reading the option letters from habit — in this paper 'Only 1' is at (b) and 'Only 2' at (d), so the printed text must be read
- Rejecting statement 1 because 'much more developed' sounds like an exaggeration; the intra-state gap is the premise of the state's own regional policy
- Assuming the Green Revolution was confined to Punjab and Haryana — western Uttar Pradesh belongs in the same belt
UPPSC asks Uttar Pradesh's regional geography as two-statement items — a claim about a region paired with a claim about its agriculture — and it has asked the western-region agriculture question in several forms. UPSC asks the Green Revolution nationally: which crops and varieties, which states, and what the ecological and equity consequences were.
Consider the following high yielding varieties of crops in India: 1. Arjun 2. Jaya 3. Padma 4. Sonalika Which of these are wheat?
- (a) 1 and 2
- (b) 2 and 3
- (c) 1 and 4
- (d) 3 and 4
Answer(c) 1 and 4
The Green Revolution from the technology end. Arjun and Sonalika are the semi-dwarf wheats that transformed the Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh belt; Jaya and Padma are the rice equivalents. This is what statement 2 of the 2022 question is pointing at.
Norman Ernest Borlaug who is regarded as the father of the Green Revolution in India is from which country?
- (a) United States of America
- (b) Mexico
- (c) Australia
- (d) New Zealand
Answer(a) United States of America
The origin of the varieties that made the western Uttar Pradesh belt what it is. Borlaug's semi-dwarf wheats, developed through the Rockefeller programme in Mexico, are the direct cause of the transformation statement 2 refers to.
Consider the following statements with reference to Upper Gangetic agro-climatic region : 1. This region encompasses central and western Uttar Pradesh. 2. This region has more than 130% irrigation intensity and 140% cropping intensity. Which of the above statements is/are correct ?
- (a) Both 1 and 2
- (b) Neither 1 nor 2
- (c) Only 1
- (d) Only 2
Answer(a) Both 1 and 2
The same region two papers later, and the numbers behind this card's claim. Irrigation intensity above 130 per cent and cropping intensity above 140 per cent are precisely the conditions that let the Green Revolution take hold in western Uttar Pradesh.
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Assertion (A) : Sugarcane and sugar production in U.P. is more than Maharashtra but productivity is less. Reason (R) : Most of the sugar factories in Maharashtra are in cooperative sector. Codes :
- (a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
- (b) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
- (c) (A) is true, but (R) is false
- (d) (A) is false, but (R) is true
Answer(b) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
The other crop of the western Uttar Pradesh belt, and a caution against reading the region's lead as uniform. Uttar Pradesh outproduces Maharashtra in cane and sugar while yielding less per hectare — volume and productivity are separate questions.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Upper Gangetic Plains agro-climatic region of India covers which of the following?
- (a)Punjab, Haryana and Delhi
- (b)Central and western Uttar Pradesh
- (c)Eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
- (d)Bundelkhand and the Malwa plateau
Answer(b) Central and western Uttar Pradesh — in the Planning Commission's fifteen agro-climatic regions, the Upper Gangetic Plains region is central and western UP, lying between the Trans-Gangetic Plains (Punjab, Haryana) to the west and the Middle Gangetic Plains (eastern UP, Bihar) to the east.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Green Revolution in India was, in its first phase, most closely associated with the increased production of
- (a)Pulses
- (b)Oilseeds
- (c)Wheat
- (d)Cotton
Answer(c) Wheat — the first-phase gains came from semi-dwarf high-yielding wheat varieties in Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh; pulses and oilseeds were largely bypassed, which is why India remained import-dependent in edible oils.