Jammu And Kashmir And Ladakh GK MCQ Question and Answer | State Gk MCQ

KGBV scheme was started in 2010. Under this scheme, residential schools for disadvantaged girls are setup in different parts of the UT.

Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan provides free ante-natal services and required treatment to pregnant women on 9^th of every month. It aims to provide lower the maternity mortality rate, create awareness among pregnant women about health issues and diseases and also make sure safe delivery and healthy life for the baby.

Jammu and Kashmir has setup many Colleges and Universities to impart higher education to youths in the UT. Jammu and Kashmir is the only UT where education is free upto the University level as per the Section 20 of the Jammu and Kashmir Constitution. The UT has several renowned institutions of higher learning. There are some good institutes providing higher education in the fields of medicine, engineering and management.

The textbooks for Ladakhi students were written in Urdu and English. Until Class 8, books were written in Urdu and in Classes 9 and 10, student had to read books written in English.

With the support of the government, SECMOL was able to grow the initiative at Saspol village into a district-level project. They adopted a Three Factors Model, i.e. Involvement of VECs, Training Teachers and Changing the Curriculum of Schools. This model was implemented over 33 villages. The Ladakh Hill Council adopted ‘Operation New Hope’ (ONH) as the official education policy in 1996.

Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme has the aim to cover 100 districts of India and making girls independent both socially and financially. As the child sex-ratio is low in Jammu and Kashmir, i.e. 862 (0 - 6 year), thus the scheme covers five districts of Jammu and Kashmir, namely, Anantnag, Budgam, Jammu, Kathua and Pulwama.

SKUAST is a multi-campus university with its headquarters located at Chatha, Jammu.

Central university of Jammu was established on 8^th August, 2011 under the Central University Act, 2009.

Trauma centres are developed along the National Highways passing through the UT. These are Gund, Mirgund Kangan, Qazigund, Leh, Anantnag, Ramban, Mahanpur (Kathua), Udhampur and Thathri (Doda).

In the year 1899, the Anjuman-i-Nusratul Islam was launched to promote education among illiterate Kashmiri Muslims by Mirwaiz Rasool Shah.