The Bhakra Main Line and its Narwana branch bring canal water mainly to which districts of Haryana?
- A.Hisar, Fatehabad and Sirsa
- B.Faridabad and Palwal
- C.Panchkula and Ambala
- D.Gurugram and Nuh
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Hisar, Fatehabad and Sirsa. These western districts lie outside the command of the Yamuna canals, so their supply comes from the Sutlej through the Bhakra Nangal works: the Bhakra Main Line and the Narwana branch carry it into Hisar, Fatehabad, Sirsa and parts of Jind and Bhiwani, and it is this water that turned the dry west into a cotton, wheat and mustard belt.
Option B, Faridabad and Palwal, are served by the Agra Canal from Okhla. Option C, Panchkula and Ambala, are in the north-east, close to the Shivaliks, and depend on Yamuna and Ghaggar basin sources. Option D, Gurugram and Nuh, get the Gurgaon Canal, also from Okhla. Remember the division by direction: Sutlej water in the west, Yamuna water in the east, centre and south.
Read the full article: Haryana Irrigation and Canals: WYC, Bhakra and SYL Canal
Practice Questions
View allThe district of Ambala is dependent for irrigation on?
- A.Tubewells
- B.Canal
- C.Rainfall
- D.Multi channels
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Ambala lies in the north-eastern corner of Haryana, inside the command of the canals drawn from the Yamuna system, and its fields are watered mainly by that flow supply rather than by any other source; the Dadupur head on the Western Yamuna Canal was built to carry water into this…
Read the full explanation →Which barrage, commissioned in 1999, replaced the Tajewala headworks to feed the Western Yamuna Canal?
- A.Okhla barrage
- B.Hathnikund barrage
- C.Dadupur barrage
- D.Kaushalya barrage
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The barrage was built on the Yamuna in Yamunanagar district a short distance upstream of the old Tajewala headworks and was commissioned in 1999.
Read the full explanation →The Western Yamuna Canal was originally cut during the reign of which ruler?
- A.Akbar
- B.Shah Jahan
- C.Firoz Shah Tughlaq
- D.Sher Shah Suri
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The Delhi sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq had a canal cut from the Yamuna in the fourteenth century to carry water westwards towards Hisar, where he founded Hisar Firoza, and that channel is the ancestor of today's Western Yamuna Canal.
Read the full explanation →The Agra Canal and the Gurgaon Canal take off from the Yamuna at
- A.Hathnikund
- B.Tajewala
- C.Okhla
- D.Wazirabad
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Both canals are headed at the Okhla barrage on the Yamuna below Delhi.
Read the full explanation →The foundation stone of the Sutlej Yamuna Link canal was laid in 1982 at Kapoori village by
- A.Jawaharlal Nehru
- B.Indira Gandhi
- C.Rajiv Gandhi
- D.Morarji Desai
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Prime Minister Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of the canal in 1982 at Kapoori in Patiala district, after the 1981 agreement between Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan on the sharing of the Ravi and Beas waters.
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