This Rajasthan quiz on Irrigation and Water Projects (Indira Gandhi Canal, Chambal) puts 10 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic, 3 of them asked in real previous-year papers. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.
10 questions with answers and explanations
About 70% of the irrigation in Rajasthan is from:-
Although the Indira Gandhi Canal and the Chambal canals are the famous works of the state, they water only a part of it.
Read the full explanation →The Indira Gandhi Canal takes off from which barrage?
It stands in Punjab just below the point where the Beas joins the Sutlej, so it can command the combined flow of the two rivers.
Read the full explanation →By what name was the Indira Gandhi Canal known before 1984?
The project was planned by the engineer Kanwar Sain in 1948 under that name, the foundation stone was laid on 31 March 1958, and the canal was renamed the Indira Gandhi Canal in 1984.
Read the full explanation →Which is the oldest canal of Rajasthan, built in the reign of Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner?
It was opened in 1927, draws Sutlej water from the Hussainiwala headworks near Ferozepur and carries it into Sri Ganganagar, which became the first and for long the only canal irrigated district of Rajasthan.
Read the full explanation →The Chambal Valley Project is a joint venture of Rajasthan and which other state?
The Chambal rises at Janapav hill in the Vindhyan highlands of Madhya Pradesh and then flows along and through Rajasthan, so the two states built the valley scheme together and share its cost and its benefits equally.
Read the full explanation →Which is the uppermost dam of the Chambal Valley Project?
The four structures of the project stand in a fixed order from upstream to downstream, and the order itself is the question: Gandhi Sagar in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh, then Rana Pratap Sagar at Rawatbhata in Chittorgarh, then Jawahar Sagar near Borawas in Kota, and last the Kota barrage…
Read the full explanation →The Bisalpur dam, the largest drinking water project of Rajasthan, is built on which river?
The Bisalpur dam stands on the Banas in Tonk district and was built mainly to supply drinking water, which it pipes to Jaipur, Ajmer and Tonk, besides irrigating land in Tonk itself.
Read the full explanation →The khadin system of water harvesting and farming is traditionally associated with which region of Rajasthan?
A khadin is an earthen bund built along the lower edge of a rocky slope in the desert.
Read the full explanation →The best method of applying water to sandy undulating area is :
Sandy soil drinks water too fast for any surface method, and an uneven surface cannot be flooded evenly without heavy levelling.
Read the full explanation →In the method of irrigation, water is applied to a field by means of small, narrow field channel and is suitable for crops grown in rows. Since the water is not applied to the entire area, the consumption of water is less, is described by which method of irrigation?
In this method small narrow channels are run between the ridges on which a row crop stands, and only those channels are filled.
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