The Sharda Canal of Uttar Pradesh takes off from which place?
- A.Banbasa
- B.Girija barrage
- C.Kalagarh
- D.Okhla
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Banbasa. The Sharda Canal begins at Banbasa, where the Sharda river, also called the Kali, comes down from the Kumaon hills to the plain. The canal was commissioned in 1928 and carries water into Lakhimpur Kheri, Sitapur, Hardoi, Lucknow, Unnao and Rae Bareli, opening the Awadh tract to assured irrigation.
Option B, the Girija barrage in Bahraich, belongs to the later Sharda Sahayak project, which moves Sharda water through a feeder into the Ghaghara and from there into the largest canal command of the state, so it is a closely related but different structure. Option C, Kalagarh, is the site of the Ramganga dam. Option D, Okhla, is the head of the Agra Canal on the Yamuna. The useful memory line is Banbasa for the Sharda Canal and Girija for the Sharda Sahayak.
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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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