Static Awareness

251. Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant is located in which state of India?

1. Madhya Pradesh
2. Jharkhand
3. Uttar Pradesh
4. Sikkim

Option “3” is correct
Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant is located at Shaktinagar in Sonebhadra district in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
· The power plant is the first power plant of NTPC.
· It sources coal from Jayant and Bina mines and water from Rihand Reservoir.
252. Who was the first President of India?

1. Indira Gandhi
2. Lala Lajpat Rai
3. Jawaharlal Nehru
4. Rajendra Prasad

Option “4” is correct
Dr. Rajendra Prasad was the first President of India.
· Rajendra Prasad stayed in office for the longest term of around 12 years.
· He was also the 1st Agriculture minister of Independent India.
253. Who was the first Prime Minister of India?

1. Jawaharlal Nehru
2. Lala Lajpat Rai
3. Indira Gandhi
4. Lal Bahadur Shastri

Option “1” is correct
Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India.
· He served as the country’s prime minister for 17 years.
· His birthday is celebrated as Children’s Day in India on 14th November every year.
254. Who was the first Governor-General of independent India?

1. George VI
2. Prince Philip
3. Lord Lewis Mountbatten
4. Edward VIII

Option “3” is correct
Lord Louis Mountbatten was the first Governor-General of independent India.
· He was also the last British person to hold this position.
255. Who was the First Indian Governor General of the country?

1. K. Kamaraj
2. Chakravarti Rajgopalachari
3. Vallabhbhai Patel
4. C.V. Raman

Option “2” is correct
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
was the First Indian Governor General of the country.
· He was also the last Governor-General of India, as India became a republic in 1950.
· Rajagopalachari was described by Gandhi as the “keeper of my conscience”.
256. Who was the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India?

1. Kodandera Subayya Thimayya
2. Sam Manekshaw
3. Roy Bucher
4. Kodandera Madappa Cariappa

Option “4” is correct
Kodandera Madappa Cariappa was the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army.
· He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army in 1949.
· He is one of only two Indian Army officers to hold the Five-star rank of Field Marshal; the other being Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw.
257. Who was the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal?

1. J. F. R. Jacob
2. Jagjit Singh Aurora
3. S.H.F.J. Manekshaw
4. Arjan Singh

Option “3” is correct
Field Marshal is a five–star general officer rank and the highest attainable rank in the Indian Army.
· It is a largely ceremonial or wartime rank, having been awarded only twice.
· Sam Manekshaw was the first field marshal of India, and was conferred the rank on 1 January 1973.
· The second was Kodandera M. Cariappa, who was conferred the rank on 15 January 1986.
258. The Nathpa Jhakri Dam is located in which state of India?

1. Rajasthan
2. Sikkim
3. Gujarat
4. Himachal Pradesh

Option “4” is correct
The Nathpa Jhakri Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Sutlej river in Himachal Pradesh.
· The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power production.
259. Who was the first woman pilot of Indian Airlines?

1. Punita Arora
2. Harita Kaur Deol
3. Durba Banerjee
4. Prem Mathur

Option “3” is correct
Durba Banerjee was the first woman pilot of Okinawa Airlines in Japan in 1956 and the first Indian woman commercial pilot.
260. The Indira Sagar Dam is located in which state of India?

1. Bihar
2. Madhya Pradesh
3. Gujarat
4. Himachal Pradesh

Option “2” is correct
The Indira Sagar Dam is the largest dam in India.
· It is located on the Narmada River at the town of Narmada Nagar in the Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh.