{"id":1127,"date":"2023-06-21T20:53:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:06:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:36:16","slug":"q-consider-the-following-rivers-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-consider-the-following-rivers-3","title":{"rendered":"Q. Consider the following rivers:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\">\n<li><strong>Barak<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lohit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Subansiri<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which of the above flows\/flow through Arunachal Pradesh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1, 2 and 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (b) 2 and 3 only<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Barak River<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/barak-valley-upsc\/\">Barak<\/a>&nbsp;<strong>rises in the Manipur hills<\/strong>&nbsp;and enters the plains near&nbsp;<strong>Lakhipur<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Assam<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The river enters Bangladesh as&nbsp;<strong>Surma<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>and Kushiyara<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Later, the river is called the&nbsp;<strong>Meghna<\/strong>&nbsp;and receives the combined flow of the Ganga and Brahmaputra.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The principal tributaries<\/strong>&nbsp;of Barak are the&nbsp;<strong>Jiri, the Dhaleswari, the Singla, the Longai, the Sonai and the Katakhal.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Barak sub-basin drains areas in&nbsp;<strong>India, Bangladesh and Burma<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The drainage area lying in India is&nbsp;<strong>41723 sq.km<\/strong>&nbsp;which is nearly&nbsp;<strong>1.38%<\/strong>&nbsp;of the total geographical area of the country.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is be on the&nbsp;<strong>north by the Barail range<\/strong>&nbsp;separating it from the Brahmaputra sub-basin, on the&nbsp;<strong>east by the Na Lushai hills<\/strong>&nbsp;and on the&nbsp;<strong>south and west by Bangladesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Barak River<\/strong>\u00a0flows through the states of\u00a0<strong>Manipur,&nbsp;Nagaland,&nbsp;Mizoram, and&nbsp;Assam<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0India\u00a0and into the\u00a0Bay of Bengal\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>sub-basin lies in&nbsp;<\/strong>the States of Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Assam, Tripura and Nagaland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The hydropower potential of the basin is 2042 MW at 60% load factor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Barak-Valley.png\" alt=\"Barak River\" class=\"wp-image-40888\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Lohit&nbsp;<\/strong>River<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/brahmaputra-river-system-upsc\/\"><strong>Lohit&nbsp;<\/strong>river<\/a>&nbsp;is a river in&nbsp;<strong>Arunachal Pradesh<\/strong>&nbsp;and is a tributary of River Brahmaputra.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&nbsp;originates in<strong>&nbsp;eastern Tibet, in the Zayal Chu range,<\/strong>&nbsp;and surges through Arunachal Pradesh.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>river flows through the Mishmi hills to meet the Siang at the head of Brahmaputra valley<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The valley of Lohit is&nbsp;<strong>thickly forested, covered with alpine and sub-tropical vegetation<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A large variety of medicinal plants are also found here.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Subansiri&nbsp;<\/strong>River<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/important-rivers-in-india-upsc\/\">Subansiri River<\/a>&nbsp;is also called as&nbsp;<strong>Gold River&nbsp;<\/strong>as it is famous for its gold dust.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Subansari, a swift river offers excellent&nbsp;<strong>kayaking<\/strong>&nbsp;opportunities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Subansiri&nbsp;<\/strong>River flows through\u00a0the Indian states of Assam and\u00a0<strong>Arunachal Pradesh<\/strong>, and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is the largest tributary of the River Brahmaputra.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>Lower Subansiri Dam&nbsp;<\/strong>or The Lower Subansiri Hydro-Electric Project is an under construction dam gravity dam on the river.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>River Brahmaputra<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is known by the name of the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/brahmaputra-river-system-upsc\/\">Yarlung Tsangpo<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;in the Tibet region.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&nbsp;<strong>originates in Chemayungdung glacier<\/strong>&nbsp;in the Himalayas and drains into the Bay of Bengal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is about 2,900 km in length.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After flowing through Tibet it enters India through Arunachal Pradesh and flows through Assam and Bangladesh before it joins the Bay of Bengal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The river crosses Assam and enters Bangladesh where the river is known as Jamuna and joins Ganga and then finally drains into the Bay of Bengal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dibang River,&nbsp;Lohit River,&nbsp;Dhansiri River, Kameng River, Manas River, Teesta River,&nbsp;Subansiri River<\/strong>&nbsp;are the major tributaries of River Brahmaputra.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-40883\" width=\"771\" height=\"426\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_d9c75a-42 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