Q91
Geography (incl. West Bengal)Rivers, Lakes, Dams & Water Resources
Consider the following pairs: Dam-State: (I) Rihand-Uttarpradesh (II) Massanjore-West Bengal (III) Rana Pratap Sagar-Rajasthan (IV) Hirakud-Chhattisgarh. Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
- a.(I), (II) and (IV)
- b.(II) only
- c.(II) and (IV)
- d.(I) and (III)
Answer: (D) (I) and (III)
Only pairs I and III are right. Rihand Dam (Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar) is on the Rihand, a tributary of the Son, in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh, and Rana Pratap Sagar Dam is on the Chambal at Rawatbhata, Rajasthan. Massanjore (Canada) Dam on the Mayurakshi stands in Dumka district of Jharkhand, although it was built with Canadian aid in 1955 mainly to irrigate Birbhum and is operated by West Bengal, a favourite trap in WBCS papers. Hirakud, the world's longest earthen dam, is on the Mahanadi near Sambalpur in Odisha, not Chhattisgarh. Chambal project sequence: Gandhi Sagar (Madhya Pradesh), Rana Pratap Sagar, Jawahar Sagar and Kota Barrage (Rajasthan).