X
Home

General Knowlegdge

English

Online Test

Current Affair

News Updates

Indian States and their Capitals

SSCpoints providing States and Their Capitals information along with some special thing about them. This is good topic for basic knowledge of India's structure.  As we know With the inclusion of Telangana, India now has 29 States and 7 Union Territories. so let's take brief knowledge of Indian states and their capital.

Complete list of states and capitals.

Andhra Pradesh – Hyderabad ( Newly proposed is Amaravati )

Arunachal Pradesh – Itanagar

Assam – Dispur

Bihar – Patna

Chhattisgarh – Raipur

Goa – Panaji

Gujarat – Gandhinagar

Haryana – Chandigarh

Himachal Pradesh – Shimla

Jammu & Kashmir – Jammu ( Winter Capital) & Srinagar (🌞Summer Capital)

Jharkhand – Ranchi

Karnataka – Bengaluru

Kerala – Thiruvananthapuram

Madhya Pradesh – Bhopal

Maharashtra – Mumbai

Manipur – Imphal

Meghalaya – Shillong

Mizoram – Aizawl

Nagaland
– Kohima

Orissa – Bhubaneshwar

Punjab – Chandigarh

Rajasthan – Jaipur

Sikkim – Gangtok

Tamil Nadu – Chennai

Telangana – Hyderabad

Tripura – Agartala

Uttar Pradesh – Lucknow

Uttarakhand – Dehradun

West Bengal – Kolkata

Union Territories And Capitals


Union Territories are those regions that fall directly under the control of the Union Government. Each UT has its own Lieutenant-Governor and Administrator. Only two UTs have Chief Ministers though as they have been granted partial statehood.


Andaman & Nicobar Islands – Port Blair

Dadra and Nagar Haveli – Silvassa

Daman and Diu – Daman

Lakshadweep – Kavaratti

Puducherry
– Puducherry/ Pondicherry

Delhi (National Capital Territory) – New Delhi

Chandigarh – Chandigarh


Trivia About Jammu & Kashmir :-


Multiple capitals is not new thing and it is practiced all around the world. South Africa has three capitals. The state of Jammu and Kashmir has two capitals – Jammu as Winter Capital and Srinagar as summer capital. The reasons for J&K having two capitals are:
As far as the strategic location is concerned, Srinagar is the most suitable place to control the political, territorial and functional working as it is located nearly in the middle of the populated area of Jammu and Kashmir.
As far as possible it is tried to keep Srinagar the active working area which is possible in summers.
But in winters it becomes a geographically challenging place due to its climate with mercury falling down below zero degree.
Moreover, in winter the active financial area is mostly the southern part of J&K. While the northern part is sometimes also not accessible due to blockage of National Highway 10 as the result of landslide or other geographical activities.
So it becomes a compulsion both economically, functionally and geographically to move the capital from Srinagar to Jammu in winter.

कोई टिप्पणी नहीं:

एक टिप्पणी भेजें