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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Explanation
The correct answer is C, Firoz Shah Tughlaq. 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. The canal silted up later, was repaired in Mughal times and was properly remodelled by the British in the nineteenth century with headworks at Tajewala.
Option A, Akbar, is linked with land revenue reform rather than with this canal. Option B, Shah Jahan, had a branch of the old channel brought into Delhi for the new capital of Shahjahanabad, which is why his name is a plausible distractor, but he did not cut the original canal. Option D, Sher Shah Suri, is remembered in this region for the Grand Trunk Road and his administrative measures, not for canal building.
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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 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.
Read the full explanation →Under the 1981 agreement on the Ravi and Beas waters, Haryana's share was fixed at about
- A.1.5 million acre feet
- B.2.5 million acre feet
- C.3.5 million acre feet
- D.4.5 million acre feet
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The agreement signed in 1981 between Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan reallocated the surplus Ravi and Beas waters, and Haryana's share was fixed at roughly 3.5 million acre feet, to be carried by the proposed Sutlej Yamuna Link canal.
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