¨ Langauge - Hindi

¨ Formed on November 1st 1956.

¨ Also known as Tiger state.

¨ Important rivers - Narmada & Tapthi.

¨ Madhyapradesh has the largest population of scheduled Tribes in India.

¨ "Detroit of India" - Pithampur.

¨ India`s first heavy electrical factory - Bharat Heavy Electricals is located at Bhopal.

¨ Khajuraho temple built by Chandelas is here.

¨ M.P.is the largest producer of optical fibre (used for telecommunication).

¨ Newsprint factory at Nepanagar, Bank note press at Dewas, Alkaloid factory at Neemuch.

¨ India govt. is going to set up a special Economic Zone at Indore.

¨ Bhopal tragedy in 1984 December 3rd.

¨ Life expectancy of women in M.P. is less.

¨ Largest cattle population.

¨ India`s first private sector - Infra sector project - Ro Pithampur road.

¨ Madhyapradesh govt. banned cow slaughtering.

¨ Jabalpur is known as the "heart of India".

¨ Important places - Sanchi, Ujjaini (famous for Kumbhamela), Panna (diamond mines), Gwalior etc.

¨ Malwa Plateau, Vindhya & Satpura mountain ranges.

¨ Kenha National park (tigers), Bandhavgarh national park,Bori wild life sanctuary.

¨ Coal mining in India was first started in 1774 at Singrauli in M.P.

¨ The govt. has introduced Gyandooth project to connect cyber cafes in rural districts.

¨ Another project `Green Card Yojana` is intro duced to use food grain as wages to improve degraded forest land.

¨ M.P. is the largest producer of Soya bean & Pulses.

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