The Mera Pani Meri Virasat scheme of Haryana encourages farmers to
- A.Grow more paddy with canal water
- B.Replace paddy with less water-intensive crops
- C.Shift from wheat to sugarcane
- D.Dig new tubewells in dark zone blocks
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, replace paddy with less water-intensive crops. Under the scheme the state pays an incentive per acre to farmers in blocks where groundwater has fallen deepest if they sow maize, pulses, cotton, bajra or other dry crops in place of paddy, and it links the help to registration of the crop on the state portal. The aim is to cut the pumping that has pushed many blocks of the Kurukshetra, Karnal and Kaithal belt into the over-exploited class.
Option A is the opposite of the scheme's purpose. Option C is wrong because sugarcane uses even more water than wheat, so no scheme would promote that shift to save water. Option D is wrong because digging fresh tubewells in dark zone or over-exploited blocks is restricted, not encouraged; the state's water authority was created to regulate such extraction.
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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