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Questions : Which of the following is landbounded river?

(a) Krishna

(b) Luni

(c) Narmada

(d) Tapti

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (b)

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Question : 1

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists:

List I List II
(Lake) (Type)
A. Ashtamudi Kayal 1. Residual (sweet water)
B. Himayat Sagar 2. Lagoon
C. Dal Lake 3. Glacial
D. Tsomgo Lake 4. Artificial (sweet water)
Codes: A B C D

a) 2 1 4 3

b) 3 1 4 2

c) 3 4 1 2

d) 2 4 1 3

Answer: (d)

Lake & Its Type;

  1. Ashtamudai Kayal - Lagoon
  2. Himayat Sagar - Artificial (Sweet water)
  3. Dal Lake - Residual (Sweet water)
  4. Tsomgo Lake – Glacial

Question : 2

Maithon, Belpahari and Tilaya dams are constructed on the river

a) Barakar

b) Konar

c) Bokaro

d) Damodar

Answer: (a)

Question : 3

A memorandum of understanding for India’s first river linking project has been signed between two States linking two rivers. The States and the rivers concerned are States Rivers

a) Uttar Pradesh and - Ken and Madhya Pradesh Betwa

b) Karnataka and - Krishna Tamil Nadu and Cauvery

c) Uttar Pradesh and - Gomti and Bihar Sharda

d) Punjab and - Beas and Rajasthan Banas

Answer: (a)

Question : 4

Girna Project is situated in

a) Maharashtra

b) Orissa

c) Chhattisgarh

d) Andhra Pradesh

Answer: (a)

Nandgaon is a city and a municipal council in Nashik district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.There are two important dams in Nandgaon taluka. One is Girana Dam under major project and a nother is Nagyasakya under medium project.

Question : 5

The Narmada river flows in the West, while most other large peninsular rivers flow to the East, why?

  1. It occupies a linear Rift valley.
  2. It flows between the Vindhyas and the Satpuras.
  3. The land slopes to the West from Central India.
Select the correct answer using the code given below.

a) 2 and 3

b) 1 and 3

c) None of the above

d) Only 1

Answer: (d)

Question : 6

The largest irrigation canal in India is called the :

a) Sirhind Canal

b) Indira Gandhi Canal

c) Upper Bari Doab Canal

d) Yamuna Canal

Answer: (b)

The Indira Gandhi Canal is one of the biggest canal projects in India. It starts from the Harike Barrage at Sultanpur, a few kilometres below the confluence of the Sutlej and Beas rivers in Punjab state. Irrigation facilities to the north-western region of Rajasthan, a part of the Thar Desert.

It consists of the Rajasthan feeder canal (with the first 167 km in Punjab and Haryana and the remaining 37 km in Rajasthan) and 445 km of the Rajasthan main canal which is entirely within Rajasthan.

This canal enters into Haryana from Punjab near Lohgarh village of Haryana, then running in the western part of district Sirsa it enters into Rajasthan near Kharakhera village (Tehsil: Tibbi, district:-Hanumangarh) of Rajasthan.

The IGNP traverses seven districts of Rajasthan:

  1. Barmer,
  2. Bikaner,
  3. Churu,
  4. Hanumangarh,
  5. Jaisalmer,
  6. Jodhpur, and
  7. Sriganganagar.

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