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

Answer: (a)

The Indira Gandhi Canal is the largest irrigation project in India. It starts from the Harike Barrage at Firozpur, below the confluence of the Satluj and Beas rivers in the Indian state of Punjab and terminates in irrigation facilities in the Thar Desert in Rajasthan.

It runs through Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan.

Answer: (c)

The Sardar Sarovar Dam is a gravity dam on the Narmada River near Navagam, Gujarat, India. It is the largest dam and part of the Narmada Valley Project, a large hydraulic engineering project involving the construction of a series of large irrigation and hydroelectric multi-purpose dams on the Narmada River.

The project took form in 1979 as part of a development scheme to increase irrigation and produce hydroelectricity. It is the 30th largest dams planned on the river Narmada, Sardar Sarovar Dam (SSD) is the largest structure to be built.

Answer: (a)

The Brahmaputra, also called Tsangpo-Brahmaputra, is a transboundary river and one of the major rivers of Asia.

With its origin from Talung Tso Lake in southwestern Tibet as the Yarlung Tsangpo River, it flows across southern Tibet to break through the Himalayas in great gorges (including the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon) and into Arunachal Pradesh (India) where it is known as Dihang or Siang.

It flows southwest through the Assam Valley as Brahmaputra and south through Bangladesh as the Jamuna ( not to be mistaken with Yamuna of India). In the vast Ganges Delta, it merges with the Padma, the main distributary of the Ganges, then the Meghna, before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (d)

Answer: (c)

Punjab has a large number of Sutlej inundation canals, which are taken out from the rivers without any regulating system like weirs etc. at their head.

Such canals provide irrigation mainly in the rainy season when the river is in flood and there is excess water. Some of such inundation canals are Sirhind, Bhakra, etc.