The Upper Ganga Canal, opened in 1854 from Haridwar, was designed by
- A.Arthur Cotton
- B.Proby Thomas Cautley
- C.William Sleeman
- D.Thomas Munro
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Proby Thomas Cautley. Cautley, an engineer of the Bengal Artillery, surveyed and built the Upper Ganga Canal, which took water from the Ganga at Haridwar across the Doab and was opened in 1854; it was the largest irrigation work of its time in the subcontinent. Option A is wrong because Arthur Cotton did comparable work in the south, building the anicuts on the Godavari and the Krishna, and the two names are often exchanged in papers. Option C is wrong because William Sleeman is remembered for the suppression of the thugs in central India. Option D is wrong because Thomas Munro is associated with the ryotwari settlement in the Madras Presidency. The later works in the same tract were the Lower Ganga Canal, the Sharda Canal and the Ramganga system.
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Practice Questions
View allUttar Pradesh is the largest producer in India of which of the following crops?
- A.Cotton
- B.Sugarcane
- C.Coffee
- D.Rubber
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The fertile plain of western Uttar Pradesh, watered by canals and tube wells, carries the densest sugarcane tract in the country, and the state leads India both in cane grown and in sugar produced, with mills concentrated in Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur and Bijnor.
Read the full explanation →Which city of Uttar Pradesh is known as the Manchester of the East for its textile and leather industry?
- A.Lucknow
- B.Varanasi
- C.Kanpur
- D.Agra
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Mills set up on the bank of the Ganga from the middle of the nineteenth century made Kanpur the first great industrial city of northern India, first in cotton textiles and army supplies and then in leather and tanning, and the nickname followed from the comparison with the mill town…
Read the full explanation →Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh is famous for the manufacture of
- A.Brassware
- B.Glass bangles
- C.Locks
- D.Carpets
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Firozabad has been the centre of the Indian glass industry for more than a century, and its furnaces turn out bangles, chandeliers and glassware that are sold across the country; the trade is also the district product under the One District One Product programme.
Read the full explanation →The One District One Product programme of Uttar Pradesh was launched in which year?
- A.2012
- B.2015
- C.2018
- D.2021
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The state government launched the programme in January 2018, giving every district a flagship traditional product and offering its artisans and small units credit, training, common facilities and marketing support, and the idea was later taken up more widely at the national level.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT a node of the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor?
- A.Jhansi
- B.Chitrakoot
- C.Varanasi
- D.Aligarh
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The corridor announced for the state has six nodes, at Lucknow, Kanpur, Jhansi, Chitrakoot, Aligarh and Agra, and Varanasi, although a major city of the state, is not among them.
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