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Questions : Which river basin is shared by more than 10 States of India ?

(a) Brahmaputra

(b) Ganges

(c) Damodar

(d) Indus

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (b)

The Ganga is the largest and the most important river of India. The 2,525 kilometres long river carries off the drainage of a vast basin area of 861,404 kilometres covering 26.2 per cent area of India’s total geographical area.

The watershed of the river Ganga is spread over ten states of India, namely,

  1. Uttarakhand,
  2. Uttar Pradesh,
  3. Bihar,
  4. Jharkhand,
  5. West Bengal,
  6. Himachal Pradesh,
  7. Rajasthan,
  8. Haryana,
  9. Madhya Pradesh and
  10. Delhi.

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Question : 1

Which is the longest river in the peninsular India?

a) Narmada

b) Godavari

c) Mahanadi

d) Krishna

Answer: (b)

Question : 2

From origin to the delta, the Brahmaputra traverses

a) Bhutan, Nepal and India

b) China, India and Bangladesh

c) India, Bangladesh and Myanmar (Burma)

d) Tibet, China and Myanmar (Burma)

Answer: (b)

The Brahmaputra River is a transboundary river. With its origin in the Angsi Glacier, located on the northern side of the Himalayas in Burang County of China's Tibet Autonomous Region as the Yarlung Tsangpo River, it flows across southern Tibet to break through the Himalayas in great gorges and into Arunachal Pradesh.

It flows southwest through the Assam Valley as Brahmaputra and south through Bangladesh as the Jamuna.

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.

Question : 3

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

a) Sardar Sarovar - Narmada Project river

b) Nagarjuna - Godavari Sagar river

c) Hirakud Dam - Mahanadi

d) Nangal Dam - Satluj river

Answer: (b)

Question : 4

Match the dams and the rivers across which those have been constructed.

List I List II
(Dam) (River)
A. Gandhi Sagar 1. Bhagirathi
B. Jayakwadi 2. Krishna
C. Nagarjuna 3. Godavari
D. Tehri 4. Chambal
Codes: A B C D

a) 3 1 4 2

b) 2 4 3 1

c) 4 2 1 3

d) 4 3 2 1

Answer: (d)

1. The Gandhi Sagar Dam is one of the four dams built on India’s Chambal River. The dam is located in the Mandsaur district of the state of Madhya Pradesh.

2. The Jaikawadi project is one of the largest irrigation projects in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is a multipurpose project.

3. 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.

4. The Tehri Dam is a multi-purpose rock and earth-fill embankment dam on the Bhagirathi River near Tehri in Uttarakhand, India. It is the primary dam of the THDC India Ltd. and the Tehri hydroelectric complex.

Question : 5

Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

a) Tawa Project - Krishna River

b) Mettur Dam - Cauvery River

c) Ukai Project - Tapti River

d) Midnapur Canal - Kangsabati River (Kasai)

Answer: (a)

Question : 6

Match the dams and the States in which they are situated: 

List I List II
(Dam) (State)
A. Hirakud 1. Chhattisgarh
B. Mettur 2. Orissa
C. Mahanadi 3. Karnataka
D. Almatti 4. Tamil Nadu
Codes: A B C D

a) 2 4 1 3

b) 1 3 2 4

c) 4 1 3 2

d) 3 2 4 1

Answer: (a)

1. Hirakud Dam is built across the Mahanadi River, about 15 km from Sambalpur in the state of Orissa in India. Built-in 1957, the dam is one of the world’s longest earthen dam. The

2. Mettur Dam is one of the largest dams in India built-in 1934. It was constructed in a gorge, where the Kaveri River enters the plains. The dam is one of the oldest in India. It provides irrigation facilities to parts of Salem, the length of Erode, Namakkal, Karur, Tiruchirappalli and Thanjavur district.

2. Hirakud Dam is built across the Mahanadi River, about 15 km from Sambalpur in the state of Orissa in India.

4. The Almatti Dam is a dam project on the Krishna River in North Karnataka, India which was completed in July 2005.

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