Ravi Shankar Shukla — MCQs with Answers (Set 1)

Shukla himself proposed Dr N. B. Khare as Congress leader on 14 July 1937. Shukla became Premier only after the 1938 crisis.

Shukla formed a limited company and started the Nagpur Times. It later faced censorship under colonial rule.

The Wardha meeting of 21 to 23 July 1938 was held under Congress President Subhas Chandra Bose. Dr Khare was asked to resign and Shukla was elected leader.

Under the States Reorganisation Act, the present-day Madhya Pradesh formed on 1 November 1956 by merging in Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh, and Bhopal State.

Shyama Charan Shukla, one of Ravi Shankar Shukla’s sons, later served as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh himself; his brother Vidya Charan Shukla also became a prominent politician.

The Vidya Mandir Scheme’s curriculum combined spinning, weaving, and agriculture with mother-tongue lessons, mathematics, and general science, following Gandhian basic-education principles.

Shukla held three official titles over nearly 11 years: Premier of the Central Provinces and Berar, then Chief Minister of the renamed province, then Chief Minister of the reorganised, larger Madhya Pradesh.

Shukla appointed Zakir Hussain, later President of India, to head the committee designing the Vidya Mandir Scheme’s curriculum.

Shukla’s sons Shyama Charan Shukla and Vidya Charan Shukla both went on to become prominent Madhya Pradesh politicians in their own right.

Shukla died in office on 31 December 1956, just about two months after the new, larger Madhya Pradesh was formed on 1 November 1956.

The larger, present-day Madhya Pradesh was formed on 1 November 1956, under the States Reorganisation Act, merging in Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh, and Bhopal State.

Ravi Shankar Shukla was the first Chief Minister of present-day Madhya Pradesh, formed under the States Reorganisation Act.