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

Answer: (b)

Rihand dam is the largest multi-purpose project of Uttar Pradesh. The water collected in the Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar reservoir is diverted to the Son canal which irrigates about 2.5 lakh hectares of the agricultural land in Champaran, Darbhanga and Muzaffarpur districts of Bihar.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

(a) Bist Doab     - 3. Between Beas and Satluj

(b) Bari Doab     - 2. Between Ravi and Beas

(c) Rachna Doab - 1. Between Ravi and Chenab

(d) Chaj Doab     - 4 Between Chenab and Jhelum

Answer: (a)

Answer: (a)

The Narmada basin, hemmed between Vindhya and Satpura ranges, extends over an area of 98,796 km2 and lies between east longitudes 72 degrees 32' to 81 degrees 45' and north latitudes 21 degrees 20' to 23 degrees 45' lying on the northern extremity of the Deccan Plateau.

The basin covers large areas in the states of Madhya Pradesh (86%), Gujarat (14%) and a comparatively smaller area (2%) in Maharashtra.

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.