The Bisalpur dam, the largest drinking water project of Rajasthan, is built on which river?
- A.Luni
- B.Mahi
- C.Banas
- D.Chambal
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, the Banas. 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. The Banas is the longest river flowing entirely within Rajasthan and is a tributary of the Chambal, so the dam is also the state's biggest work in that basin outside the valley project.
Option A, the Luni, is the river of the western desert, saline in its lower course, and carries the Jawai and Sukri as tributaries. Option B, the Mahi, is dammed at Banswara as the Mahi Bajaj Sagar in the project shared with Gujarat. Option D, the Chambal, carries Gandhi Sagar, Rana Pratap Sagar, Jawahar Sagar and the Kota barrage, none of which is Bisalpur.
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Practice Questions
View allAbout 70% of the irrigation in Rajasthan is from:-
- A.Ponds and Lakes
- B.Taps and tube wells
- C.Nadi and Bawdi
- D.Rivers and Canal
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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?
- A.Harike barrage
- B.Hussainiwala headworks
- C.Hathnikund barrage
- D.Kota barrage
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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?
- A.Gang Canal
- B.Bhakra Canal
- C.Rajasthan Canal
- D.Marwar Canal
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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?
- A.Indira Gandhi Canal
- B.Gang Canal
- C.Chambal right main canal
- D.Narmada canal
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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?
- A.Gujarat
- B.Punjab
- C.Madhya Pradesh
- D.Uttar Pradesh
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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.
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