The Matatila dam, a joint project of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, is built on which river?
- A.Ken
- B.Betwa
- C.Son
- D.Chambal
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the Betwa. The Matatila dam stands on the Betwa on the border of the Jhansi and Lalitpur tract and was built jointly by Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh for irrigation and a small hydel station. The Rajghat dam, also called Rani Lakshmibai Sagar, is the second joint project on the same river, and together they are the backbone of irrigation in Bundelkhand.
Option A, the Ken, is the neighbouring Bundelkhand river on which the Daudhan dam of the Ken Betwa link is being built. Option C, the Son, carries the Bansagar dam in Madhya Pradesh, whose water is shared by Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Option D, the Chambal, is shared by Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and carries the Gandhi Sagar, Rana Pratap Sagar and Jawahar Sagar dams, none of them with Uttar Pradesh. Sorting the Bundelkhand rivers by their dams answers this group of questions.
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Practice Questions
View allThe Upper Ganga Canal takes off from the Ganga at which place?
- A.Narora
- B.Haridwar
- C.Kanpur
- D.Bijnor
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The Upper Ganga Canal begins at the Bhimgoda barrage at Haridwar, where the Ganga leaves the hills and still has the fall needed to drive a gravity canal.
Read the full explanation →Under which engineer was the Upper Ganga Canal designed and built?
- A.Sir Arthur Cotton
- B.Sir Proby Cautley
- C.Sir Thomas Munro
- D.Sir John Lawrence
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Cautley surveyed the Doab, chose Haridwar as the head and supervised the digging of the Upper Ganga Canal, which was opened in 1854.
Read the full explanation →The Lower Ganga Canal starts from Narora, which lies in which district of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Bulandshahr
- B.Meerut
- C.Aligarh
- D.Etawah
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Narora stands on the Ganga in Bulandshahr district, and the barrage there feeds the Lower Ganga Canal, opened in 1878 to extend irrigation to the middle Doab districts of Etawah, Kanpur and Fatehpur.
Read the full explanation →The Agra Canal draws its water from the Yamuna at which barrage?
- A.Hathnikund
- B.Okhla
- C.Mathura
- D.Banbasa
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The Agra Canal starts at the Okhla barrage on the Yamuna near Delhi and was opened in 1874.
Read the full explanation →Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar, the largest man made lake in India by area, is the reservoir of which dam?
- A.Matatila dam
- B.Rihand dam
- C.Ramganga dam
- D.Rajghat dam
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The dam was built at Pipri in Sonbhadra district across the Rihand, a tributary of the Son, and the lake behind it was named Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar after the first chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
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