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Questions : Who among the following is against the Sardar Sarovar Project?

(a) Kesubhai Patel

(b) Chagan Bhujbal

(c) Medha Patekar

(d) Yogendra Makwana

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (c)

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Question : 1

Match the dams and the rivers across which these have been constructed:

List I List II
(Dam) (River)
A. Farakka 1. Krishna
B. Tehri 2. Ravi
C. Thein 3. Ganga
D. Nagarjuna 4. Bhagirathi
Codes: A B C D

a) 2 3 1 4

b) 3 4 2 1

c) 4 1 2 3

d) 1 2 3 4

Answer: (b)

  1. Farakka Barrage is a barrage across the Ganges River, located in the Indian state of West Bengal, roughly 16.5 kilometres from the border with Bangladesh near Chapai Nawabganj District.
  2. The Tehri Dam is a multi-purpose rock and earth-fill embankment dam on the Bhagirathi River near Tehri in Uttarakhand. The Ranjit Sagar Dam, also known as the
  3. Thein Dam is part of a hydroelectric project constructed by the Government of Punjab on the Ravi River in the state of Punjab.
  4. Nagarjuna Sagar Dam is the world’s largest masonry dam at the time of its construction, which is built across Krishna River at Nagarjuna Sagar in Guntur district & Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh.

Question : 2

Consider the following tributaries of river Brahmaputra :

  1. Lohit
  2. Tista
  3. Subansiri
  4. Sankosh
Arrange the above rivers from west to east:

a) 2 - 3 - 4 - 1

b) 4 - 2 - 3 - 1

c) 3 - 1 - 2 – 4

d) 2 - 4 - 3 - 1

Answer: (a)

Tista, Subansiri, Sankosh and Lohit are the tributaries of river Brahmaputra.

Question : 3

Which of the following is not associated with river Brahmaputra?

a) Dihang

b) Kosi

c) Lohit

d) Tsangpo

Answer: (b)

Kosi is not associated with the river Brahmaputra. It drains the northern slopes of the Himalayas in Tibet and the southern slopes in Nepal.

Question : 4

Sankosh river forms boundary between

a) Assam and Arunachal Pradesh

b) Assam and West Bengal

c) Bihar and Jharkhand

d) Bihar and West Bengal

Answer: (b)

Question : 5

Consider the following rivers.

  1. Barak
  2. Lohit
  3. Subansiri
Which of the above flow/flows through Arunachal Pradesh?

a) Only 2 and 3

b) Only 1 and 3

c) 1, 2 and 3

d) Only 1

Answer: (a)

Question : 6

Which of the following rivers does not have its source in glaciers?

a) Alaknanda

b) Kosi

c) Mandakini

d) Yamuna

Answer: (b)

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