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Question : 41 [SSC SIG 2006]
Which State has the largest proportion of its net irrigation area under well irrigation ?
a) Bihar
b) Gujarat
c) West Bengal
d) Haryana
Answer »Answer: (b)
Gujarat has the largest proportion of its net irrigated area under well irrigation. Uttar Pradesh has the largest area under irrigation in terms of total acreage.
Question : 42 [SSC LDEO 2011]
The river on which the reservoir for Indira Gandhi Canal has been built is
a) Ravi
b) Luni
c) Jhelum
d) Sutlej
Answer »Answer: (d)
The Indira Gandhi Canal starts from the Harike Barrage at Sultanpur, a few kilometers below the confluence of the Sutlej and Beas rivers in Punjab state. The reservoir for the canal is built on the Sutlej River.
Question : 43 [SSC MTS 2014]
The highest drainage basin associated with the peninsular river in India is
a) Godavari
b) Krishna
c) Narmada
d) Mahanadi
Answer »Answer: (b)
The Godavari originates in the Western Ghats Trimbakeshwar, in the Nashik Subdivision or District of Maharashtra at a height of 920 m. The Krishna River rises in the Western Ghats, at an elevation of about 1337 m just north of Mahabaleshwar.
The headwaters of the Mahanadi River are situated at an elevation of 442 meters over the sea surface. The source of the Narmada is located at Amarkantak on the Amarkantak hill (1,057 m), in the Anuppur District zone of the Shahdol of eastern Madhya Pradesh.
Question : 44 [SSC CHSL 2015]
Which of the following states in known as the traditional region for Tank Irrigation?
a) Gujarat
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Orrisa
d) Assam
Answer »Answer: (b)
Given the seasonal and erratic nature of rainfall throughout the year, South India is known to know to use tank irrigation as time-tested technology for storing rainfall and runoff for a number of uses: crop irrigation, groundwater recharge, domestic use, cattle watering, etc.
Tank irrigation currently accounts for more than 30 per cent of all irrigated cropland in the state of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. There exist approximately 39,000 irrigation tanks of various sizes in Tamil Nadu alone.
Question : 45 [Ssc CGL Pre 2011]
Which is the longest irrigation canal in India?
a) Yamuna Canal
b) Indira Gandhi Canal
c) East Kosi Canal
d) Sirhind Canal
Answer »Answer: (b)
The Indira Gandhi Canal is the world’s longest irrigation canal. It starts from the Harike Barrage at Sultanpur, a few kilometres below the confluence of the Sutlej and Beas rivers in Punjab state.
It provides irrigation facilities to the north-western region of Rajasthan, a part of the Thar Desert. It consists of the Rajasthan feeder canal (with the first 167 km in Punjab and Haryana and the remaining 37 km in Rajasthan) and 445 km of the Rajasthan main canal which is entirely within Rajasthan.
This canal enters into Haryana from Punjab near Lohgarh village of Haryana, then running in the western part of district Sirsa it enters into Rajasthan near Kharakhera village of Rajasthan. The IGNP traverses seven districts of Rajasthan: Barmer, Bikaner, Churu, Hanumangarh, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, and Sriganganagar.
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