The Jawaharlal Nehru lift canal and the Loharu lift canal were built to irrigate which part of Haryana?
- A.The Shivalik foothills in the north
- B.The southern districts near the Aravallis
- C.The Yamuna floodplain in the east
- D.The Ghaggar plain in the north-west
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the southern districts near the Aravallis. The land in Bhiwani, Charkhi Dadri, Mahendragarh and Rewari rises above the level of the main canals, so water has to be pumped to it in stages. The Jawaharlal Nehru lift canal and the Loharu lift canal were built for that purpose, and they matter because this corner has the lowest rainfall in the state, sandy soil and groundwater that is often brackish.
Option A, the Shivalik foothills, get the highest rainfall in Haryana and need no lifting. Option C, the Yamuna floodplain, has shallow sweet groundwater and direct canal flow. Option D, the Ghaggar plain, is served by the Bhakra branches and by tubewells. Lift irrigation is always a sign of land lying above the canal, so link lift canals with the Aravalli fringe and flow canals with the plains.
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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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