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

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.

Answer: (a)

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.

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.

Answer: (b)