The largest irrigation canal in India is called the :

(1) Yamuna canal

(2) Sirhind canal

(3) Indira Gandhi canal

(4) Upper Bari Doab canal

Which of the following rivers makes an estuary?

(1) Krishna

(2) Mahanadi

(3) Godavari

(4) Narmada

Asia’s first underground Hydel Project is located in which of the following States in India?

(1) Jammu & Kashmir

(2) Himachal Pradesh

(3) Arunachal Pradesh

(4) Uttar Pradesh

Which of the following is a river flowing from Central India and joining Yamuna/ Ganga?

(1) Ghagra

(2) Gomti

(3) Kosi

(4) Betwa

Girna Project is situated in

(1) Andhra Pradesh

(2) Maharashtra

(3) Orissa

(4) Chhattisgarh

Arrange the following rivers from South to North.

(a) Cauvery

(b) Krishna

(c) Godavari

(d) Mahanadi

(1) (a), (c), (b), (d)

(2) (c), (d), (a), (b)

(3) (b), (d), (c), (a)

(4) (a), (b), (c), (d)

Farakka Barrage was commissioned to

(1) save Kolkata port

(2) link North and South Bengal

(3) supply drinking water to Kolkata

(4) divert water to Bangladesh

Match the dams and the rivers across which those have been constructed.

Dam                                  River

(a) Gandhi Sagar           1. Bhagirathi

(b) Jayakwadi                 2. Krishna

(c) Nagarjuna                 3. Godavari

(d) Tehri                          4. Chambal

    (a)     (b)    (c)   (d)

(1) 4        3      2      1

(2) 3        1      4      2

(3) 2        4      3      1

(4) 4        2      1      3

Match the dams and the rivers across which these have been constructed :

     Dam                       River

a. Farakka                 1. Krishna

b. Tehri                      2. Ravi

c. Thein                    3. Ganga

d. Nagarjuna             4. Bhagirathi

     a   b   c   d

(1) 1  2   3    4

(2) 2  3   1    4

(3) 3  4   2    1

(4) 4  1   2    3

River Damodar is called ‘Sorrow of Bengal’ because it

(1) gets flooded often causing havoc

(2) causes maximum soil erosion

(3) forms a number of dangerous waterfalls

(4) is not a perennial river

On which river has the Hirakud Dam been built?

(1) Mahanadi

(2) Godavari

(3) Cauvery

(4) Periyar