indian drainage irrigation rivers & projects section 10 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (b)

Answer: (b)

The sharing of waters of the river Kaveri has been the source of a serious conflict between the Indian states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

The genesis of this conflict rests in two controversial agreements— one signed in 1892 and another in 1924—between the erstwhile Madras Presidency and the Princely State of Mysore.

The 802 km Kaveri River has a 32,000 sq km basin area in Karnataka and a 44,000 sq km basin area in Tamil Nadu.

Answer: (a)

The Rana Pratap Sagar Dam is a gravity masonry dam of 53.8 metres height built on the Chambal River at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan in India.

It was officially declared open on 9 February 1970 by Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (a)

The Nagarjunasagar Dam is the world's largest masonry dam at the time of its construction, which is built across Krishna River at Nagarjunasagar in Guntur and Nalgonda districts of Andhra Pradesh.

It was the earliest in the series of large infrastructure projects initiated for the Green Revolution in India; it also is one of the earliest multi-purpose irrigation and hydro-electric projects in India.