7.3 per cent
HP GK Questions with Answers & Quiz
Q. What is the Growth rate of Himachal in the financial year of 2018-19?
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Q. Which festival is celebrated in Lahaul and Spiti during winter, where people engage in masked dances to ward off evil spirits?
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Answer: Losar Festival.
Q. Chandra and Bhagha river meet at which place to form the Chenab river?
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Tandi
Q. Sex-sorted Semen Facility is coming up at which place?
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Lamlahari
Description: The Himachal Pradesh Government is setting up a Sex-Sorted Semen Facility Centre at a cost of Rs. 47.50 crore. For establishing this centre, 90 per cent grant will be given by the Central government and the state government will be providing the remaining 10 per cent money. In Sex-Sorted Semen Facility centre, such injections will be prepared for indigenous cow breeds that will produce only female calves. 740 kanals of land have been selected for the establishing Sex-Sorted Semen Facility Centre in Lamlahdi of Kutlehar Assembly constituency in Una district.
Q. Borasu Pass Connects Himachal with which state?
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Uttrakhand
Description: Borasu Pass (el. 5,450 m or 17,880 ft) connects Kinnaur district of Himachal to Uttrakhand. Borasu pass was an ancient trade route between Har ki Doon valley and Kinnaur valley. Borasu Pass divides Uttarakhand from Himachal Pradesh.
The pass is located only a few kilometers from the Tibet border.
The east part of the Borasu area comes out from Tons valley and the north-west part is merged with Baspa valley. Its north-west range comes down on Jhukia Glacier. The nearest village, Chitkul, is 20.3 km away from the pass on the Himachal (Kinnaur valley) side and Osla village on the Uttarakhand side of the pass.