indian drainage irrigation rivers & projects section 5 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

Answer: (b)

Answer: (a)

Kosi is known as the "sorrow of Bihar", as it has caused widespread human suffering in the past due to flooding and very frequent changes in the course when it flows from Nepal to Bihar. Over the last 250 years, the Kosi River has shifted its course over 120 km from east to west.

Its unstable nature has been attributed to the heavy silt it carries during the monsoon season and flooding in India has extreme effects.

Answer: (c)

Answer: (d)

Talcher, located in the Angul district of Odisha, is famous for its Heavy Water Plant. This plant is a Government of India organisation under the aegis of the Ministry of Atomic Power & Energy.

It is involved in the production of organic solvents like TBP, D2EFHA, TAPO & TOPO etc. and other allied chemicals required as a part of the nuclear power programme of the country.

Answer: (a)

The Godavari is a river in south-central India. It starts in the western state of Maharashtra and flows through the modern state of Andhra Pradesh before reaching the Bay of Bengal. It forms one of the largest river basins in India.

With a length of 1465 km, it is the second-longest river in India, second to The Ganges, and the longest in southern India. It originates near Trimbak in Nashik District of Maharashtra state and flows east across the Deccan Plateau into the Bay of Bengal near Yanam and Antarvedi in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh.