RAS question
Which district forms the northern-most point of Rajasthan?
Correct answer: (A) Sri Ganganagar.
Sri Ganganagar district forms the northern-most point of Rajasthan.
Explanation
Sri Ganganagar is the right answer because the question is asking for Rajasthan's northern-most point, not merely a generally northern district. Sri Ganganagar is the state's northernmost district and is located at Rajasthan's highest latitude. The official District Environment Plan for Sri Ganganagar places Ganganagar district in the northernmost part of Rajasthan State and gives its latitudinal spread as 28°42'30'' N to 30°12'00'' N. That detail matters because, in a map-based RAS question, the district reaching the highest latitude marks the northern extremity. The other options are displaced from that northern-most point in the option logic.
Why the other options are wrong
- (B) Bikaner is south of Sri Ganganagar in the option logic, so it cannot be the district at Rajasthan's highest latitude.
- (C) Hanumangarh is described as north-eastern, but the District Environment Plan for Sri Ganganagar identifies Ganganagar, not Hanumangarh, as lying in Rajasthan's northernmost part.
- (D) Churu is south of the northern extremity, so it cannot mark the highest-latitude point of Rajasthan.
Concept
This tests a Rajasthan physical-geography map concept: state extremities and district positions by latitude. It recurs in RAS because such questions separate precise boundary knowledge from a loose sense of northern Rajasthan.