indian drainage irrigation rivers & projects section 7 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), having its headquarters at Kolkata, is a statutory body created under the Damodar Valley Corporation Act, 1948. It operates several power stations in the Damodar River area of West Bengal and Jharkhand.

The corporation operates both thermal power stations and hydel power stations under the Union Ministry of Power.

Answer: (c)

The Kali Gandaki or Gandaki River is one of the major rivers of Nepal and a left bank tributary of the Ganges in India. It is also called Krishna Gandaki in Nepal.

Answer: (d)

India has about 14,500 km of navigable waterways, which consists of the Ganges–Bhagirathi–Hooghly rivers, the Brahmaputra, the Barak river, the rivers in Goa, the backwaters in Kerala, inland waters in Mumbai and the deltaic regions of the Godavari - Krishna rivers.

National Waterway-1: Allahabad–Haldia stretch of the Ganges–Bhagirathi–Hooghly river of total length 1620 km was declared as National Waterway1 (NW-1) in the year 1986.

Answer: (b)

The Almatti Dam is a dam project on the Krishna River in North Karnataka, India which was completed in July 2005. The dam is located on the edge of the Bijapur and Bagalkot districts.

The height of the Almatti dam was originally restricted to 52.26 meters by the Supreme Court of India.