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Questions : Match the following. 
List I List II
A. Cuttack 1. Godavari
B. Ludhiana 2. Kshipra
C. Nashik 3. Mahanadi
D. Ujjain 4. Satluj
Codes: A B C D

(a) 3 2 1 4

(b) 4 1 3 2

(c) 1 2 3 4

(d) 3 4 1 2

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (d)

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Question : 1

What is the correct sequence of the rivers – Godavari, Mahanadi, Narmada and Tapti in the descending order of their lengths?

a) Godavari - Narmada - Mahanadi - Tapti

b) Narmada - Godavari - Tapti - Mahanadi

c) Narmada - Tapti - Godavari – Mahanadi

d) Godavari - Mahanadi - Narmada - Tapti

Answer: (a)

Question : 2

Which state is irrigated by Ganga canal ?

a) Bihar

b) West Bengal

c) Rajasthan

d) Uttar Pradesh

Answer: (d)

The Ganges or Ganga Canal is a canal system that irrigates the Doab region between the Ganges River and the Yamuna River in India. The canal system irrigates nearly 9,000 km² of fertile agricultural land in ten districts of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

Today the canal is the source of agricultural prosperity in much of these states, and the irrigation departments of these states actively maintain the canal against a fee system charged from users.

Question : 3

Which of the following is the largest irrigation plant in India?

a) Indira Gandhi Canal

b) Upper Ganges Canal

c) Tajewala Canal

d) Buckingham Canal

Answer: (a)

The Indira Gandhi Canal is the longest canal in India and the largest irrigation project in the world.

It starts from the Harike Barrage at Firozpur, a few kilometres below the confluence of the Sutlej and Beas rivers in the Indian state of Punjab and terminates in irrigation facilities in the Thar Desert in the northwest of Rajasthan. It was previously known as the Rajasthan Canal.

Question : 4

The beneficiary states of Sardar Sarovar Project are

a) Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra

b) Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra

c) Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka and Maharashtra

d) Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan

Answer: (d)

Question : 5

Which one of the following rivers in India has been declared as the National River?

a) Yamuna

b) Krishna

c) Son

d) Ganga

Answer: (d)

The Ganges is a trans-boundary river of India and Bangladesh. The 2,525 km (1,569 mi) river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, and flows south and east through the Gangetic Plain of North India into Bangladesh, where it empties into the Bay of Bengal. It is the third largest river in the World by discharge.

Question : 6

Which of the following river is notorious for maximum shifting of its course?

a) Kosi

b) Damodar

c) Gomti

d) Ganga

Answer: (a)

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