indian drainage irrigation rivers & projects section 5 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Question : 46 [PCS (Pre) 2006]

Nagarjuna Sagar dam is situated in which state of India?

a) Madhya Pradesh

b) Uttar Pradesh

c) Tamil Nadu

d) Andhra Pradesh

Answer: (d)

Question : 47 [SSC CGL 2015]

Which was the first hydel power project in India ?

a) Paikara in Tamil Nadu

b) Siva Samudram in Karnataka

c) Nizamnagar in Andhra Pradesh

d) Pallivasal in Kerala

Answer: (b)

The 4.5-megawatt hydroelectric power station near Sivasamudram falls of the Cauvery in Karnataka was the first major power station in India. Owned by a few British companies, it was set up by General Electric of the US. It was commissioned in 1902.

The first small hydropower plant, a 130-kilowatt plant, started functioning in 1897 at Darjeeling.

Question : 48 [IAS (Pre) 2014]

What are the benefits of implementing the ‘Integrated Watershed Development Programme’?

  1. Prevention of soil run off
  2. Linking the country’s perennial rivers with seasonal rivers
  3. Rainwater harvesting and recharge of ground water level
  4. Regeneration of natural vegetation
Select the correct answer using the code given below.

a) 2, 3 and 4

b) 1, 3 and 4

c) 1, 2, 3 and 4

d) 1 and 2

Answer: (b)

Question : 49 [SSC CML 2002]

The Brahmaputra originates from which of the following glaciers?

a) Gangotri

b) Yamu notri

c) Angsi

d) Siachen

Answer: (c)

The Brahmaputra river (also called as "BurlungButhur" by the Bodo people of Assam), called the Yarlung Tsangpo in the Tibetan language, originates on the Angsi Glacier located on the northern side of the Himalayas in Burang County of Tibet and not Chema-Yungdung glacier, which was previously identified by geographer Swami Pranavananda in the 1930s.

The Angsi Glacier is a glacier located on the northern side of the Himalayas in Burang County in China's Tibet Autonomous Region.

This glacier is the origin of the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet which is the Upper stream of the Brahmaputra River that flows into India and Bangladesh.

Question : 50 [PCS (Pre) 2012]

Which one of the following rivers is associated with Sardar Sarovar Project?

a) Tapti (Tapi)

b) Godavari

c) Cauvery (Kaveri)

d) Narmada

Answer: (d)

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