Which one of the following states does not form part of Narmada River basin?
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Rajasthan
(c) Gujarat
(d) Maharashtra
Solution: (b)
The Narmada basin, hemmed between Vindhya and Satpura ranges, extends over an area of 98,796 km2 and lies between east longitudes 72 degrees 32′ to 81 degrees 45′ and north latitudes 21 degrees 20′ to 23 degrees 45′ lying on the northern extremity of the Deccan Plateau. The basin covers large areas in the states of Madhya Pradesh (86%), Gujarat (14%) and a comparatively smaller area (2%) in Maharashtra.
On the tributary of which river has Rihand Dam been constructed?
(a) Chambal
(b) Yamuna
(c) Sone
(d) Periyar
Solution: (c)
Rihand Dam is a concrete gravity dam located at Pipri in Sonbhadra District in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is on the border of Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh. It is on the Rihand River which is the tributary of the Son River. The Rihand River flows through the Indian states of Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh. The Ri hand rises from Matiranga hills, in the region south west of the Mainpat plateau, which is about 2,100 meters above mean sea level. The river flows north roughly through the central part of Surguja district for 160 kilometres. The Rihand and its tributaries form a fertile plain in the central part of the district stretching from around Ambikapur to Lakhanpur and Pratappur. Thereafter, it flows north into Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh via Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh, where it is called Rhed and finally joins the Son.
Rihand Dam Project provides irrigation to
(a) Gujarat and Maharashtra
(b) Orissa and West Bengal
(c) Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
(d) Kerala and Karnataka
Solution: (c)
Rihand dam is the largest multi-purpose project of Uttar Pradesh. The water collected in the Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar reservoir is diverted to the Son canal which irrigates about 2.5 lakh hectares of the agricultural land in Champaran, Darbhanga and Muzaffarpur districts of Bihar.
River Indus originates from:
(a) Hindukush range
(b) Himalayan range
(c) Karakoram range
(d) Kailash range
Solution: (d)
Indus is a major river which flows through Paki stan. It also has courses through western Tibet (in China) and Northern India. Originating in the Tibetan plateau in the vicinity of Lake Mansarovar, the river runs a course through the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit, Baltistan and flows through Pakistan in a southerly direction along the entire length of Pakistan to merge into the Arabian Sea near the port city of Karachi in Sindh. The traditional source of the river is the Senge Khabab or ‘Lion’s Mouth’, a perennial spring, not far from the sacred Mount Kail ash, and is marked by a long low line of Tibetan chortens.
Which of the following rivers has its source outside India?
(a) Brahmaputra
(b) Beas
(c) Ravi
(d) Jhclum
Solution: (a)
Brahmaputra River, also called Tsangpo-Brahmaputra, is a transboundary river and one of the major rivers of Asia. With its origin from Talung Tso Lake in southwestern Tibet as the Yarlung Tsangpo River, it flows across southern Tibet to break through the Himalayas in great gorges (including the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon) and into Arunachal Pradesh (India) where it is known as Dihang or Siang. It flows south west through the Assam Valley as Brahmaputra and south through Bangladesh as the Jamuna (not to be mistaken with Yamuna of India). In the vast Ganges Delta it merges with the Padma, the main distributary of the Ganges, then the Meghna, before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
Guwahati is situated on the bank of the river
(a) Teesta
(b) Brahmaputra
(c) Hooghly
(d) Sone
Solution: (b)
Guwahati — formerly known as Pragjyotishpura and Durjoya in ancient Assam, and Gauhati in the modern era — is an ancient urban area, the largest city of Assam, the largest metropolitan area in northeastern , one of the fastest developing cities in India and often referred as “gateway” of the North East Region. It is also the third largest city in Eastern India after Kolkata and Patna respectively. The city is between the southern bank of the Brahmaputra River and the foothills of the Shillong plateau.
Hirakud Dam has been constructed across the river
(a) Ganga
(b) Mahanadi
(c) Kaveri
(d) Brahmaputra
Solution: (b)
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 largest Masonry dam has been constructed on the river
(a) Krishna
(b) Rihand
(c) Sutlej
(d) Mahanadi
Solution: (a)
Masonry dams are dams made out of masonry; mainly stone and brick. They are either the gravity or the arch type. The largest masonry dam in the world is Nagarjunasagar Dam in India which is built across Krishna River at Nagarjunasagar in Guntur and Nalgonda districts of Andhra Pradesh.
The Cogentrix Power Project is located in
(a) Karnataka
(b) Kerala
(c) Gujarat
(d) Madhya Pradesh
Solution: (a)
This multinational power generation company from the United States was involved in one of the eight “fast-track” power projects that were chosen as examples of the benefits of “reform” in the power sector. Cogentrix and Hong Kong’s China Light and Pow er International were to set up a $1.3 billion, 1000 MW project in Karnataka.
The river Ganga has two major sources—
(a) Bhagirathi and Alaka-nanada
(b) Bhagirathi and Yamuna
(c) Bhagirathi and Saraswati
(d) Alakananda and Gandak
Solution: (a)
The name Ganges is used for the river between the confluence of the Bhagirathi and Alaknanda rivers, in the Himalayas, and the India-Bangladesh border, near the Farakka Barrage and the first bifurcation of the river. The river’s source is usually assumed to be the source of the Bhagirathi River, Gangotri Glacier at Gomukh, and its mouth being the mouth of the Meghna River on the Bay of Bengal. Sometimes the source of the Ganges is considered to be at Harid war, where its Himalayan headwater streams debouch onto the Gangetic Plain.
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