Question Discussion & Solution

The correct answer is Bori Bunder.

Key Points

• The Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR) was a predecessor of the Central Railway whose headquarters was at the Bori Bunder in Bombay (later, the Victoria Terminus and presently the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus).
• The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company was incorporated on 1 August 1849 by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company Act 1849 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. 
• On 21 August 1847, it entered into a formal contract with the East India Company for the construction and operation of a railway line, 56 km long, to form part of a trunk line connecting Bombay with Khandesh and Berar and generally with the other presidencies of India.
• On 1 July 1925 its management was taken over by the Government.
• On 5 November 1951, it was incorporated into the Central Railway.

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Additional Information

The correct answer is In 1960.

• In 1960, the 'State Assessment Organization' was established in Rajasthan.

Key Points

• The State Evaluation Organisation was set up in the State on 1^st April 1960.
• It was set up with the objective of undertaking evaluation of Panchayati Raj and Community Development Programme, and further assigned the task of making an evaluation of development schemes/ projects initiated under different Five Year Plans.
• Presently it is working as an integral part of the State Planning Machinery and conduct the evaluation studies on various subjects, schemes, projects and programmers as required by the State Government as well as by the Central Government.

Bahlul Lodhi was the founder of the Lodhi Dynasty in 1451. By the end of the 15th-century Bahlul Lodi firmly established the Lodi dynasty at Delhi. He succeeded in bringing a large area of North India under his control. After his death, his son Sikandar Lodi succeeded him to the throne.

• In the sixteenth century the Lodi Empire, under Sultan Sikandar Lodi, in North India reached its zenith.
• The annexation of Dholpur paved the way for the expansion of Afghan rule in the regions of Rajputana and Malwa. The forts of Narwar and Chanderi were annexed while the Khanzada of Nagaur acknowledged the suzerainty of the Lodi Sultan in 1510-11.
• In short, the whole of North India, from Punjab in the northwest to Saran and Champaran in north Bihar in the east, and Chanderi to the south of Delhi were brought under the Lodi rule.
• Unlike his father, Sultan Ibrahim Lodi had to face the hostility of the 108 Political Structures Afghan nobility soon after his accession to the throne in 1517.
• He found himself surrounded by powerful nobles bent upon weakening the center to gain an upper hand for themselves. His father had to fight against his brothers and relatives and was supported by the nobles who wanted to replace the princes in the resourceful provinces. Upon the death of Sultan Sikandar Lodhi, the nobles decided to divide the Empire between Sultan Ibrahim Lodi and his younger brother Prince Jalal Khan Lodi, the governor of Kalpi.

Hint

The rulers of Delhi: