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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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Sir Proby Cautley. Cautley surveyed the Doab, chose Haridwar as the head and supervised the digging of the Upper Ganga Canal, which was opened in 1854. His most admired work on it is the Solani aqueduct near Roorkee, which carries the canal over a stream, and the engineering college at Roorkee grew up around the project.
Option A, Sir Arthur Cotton, was the great canal engineer of the south, remembered for the anicuts on the Godavari and the Krishna deltas, not for the Doab. Option C, Sir Thomas Munro, was an administrator associated with the ryotwari land revenue settlement of Madras. Option D, Sir John Lawrence, served as a Punjab administrator and later as Viceroy. Keep Cautley with the Ganga canal and Cotton with the Godavari, since papers set the two against each other.
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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 →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.
Read the full explanation →The Rihand dam of Uttar Pradesh is built on which river?
- A.Betwa
- B.Ken
- C.Rihand, a tributary of the Son
- D.Ghaghara
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The Rihand rises on the Chhattisgarh plateau, flows north through the hills of the south east and joins the Son, and the dam at Pipri in Sonbhadra district stands across it.
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