{"id":912,"date":"2023-06-18T13:15:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T07:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=912"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:19:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:49:43","slug":"q-consider-the-following-pairs-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-consider-the-following-pairs-8","title":{"rendered":"Q. Consider the following pairs:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Reservoirs&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; :&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;States<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ghataprabha&nbsp; &nbsp;:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Telangana<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gandhi Sagar&nbsp; : &nbsp; &nbsp; Madhya Pradesh<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indira Sagar&nbsp; &nbsp; :&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Andhra Pradesh<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maithon&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Chhattisgarh<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How many pairs given above are not correctly matched?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>Only one pair<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Only two pairs PAY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Only three pairs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All four pairs<\/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: (c) Only three pairs<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ghataprabha<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Ghataprabha Reservoir<em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em>is located in<\/strong>&nbsp;the Belgavi district of<strong>&nbsp;Karnataka.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ghataprabha has a hydroelectric and irrigational dam&nbsp;<strong>at Hidkal.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hidkal Dam is located in the&nbsp;<strong>Belagavi district<\/strong>&nbsp;of Karnataka. This dam was completed in the year 1977. A reservoir was also built on the dam to make it a multipurpose project.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The reservoir has storage of about 659 million cubic meters, providing irrigation to a total extent of 1,396,000 hectares of land.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ghataprabha River<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/krishna-river-system-upsc\/\">Ghataprabha river<\/a>&nbsp;is an&nbsp;<strong>important right-bank tributary of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/krishna-river-system-upsc\/\">Krishna River<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;and flows eastward for a distance of 283 kilometers before its confluence with the Krishna River at Chikksangam. The river basin is 8,829 square kilometers wide and&nbsp;<strong>stretches across Maharashtra and Karnataka states.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>Markandeya and Hiranyakeshi rivers&nbsp;<\/strong>are tributaries of the Ghataprabha.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Gokak Falls<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 on River Ghataprabha<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Gandhi Sagar<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Gandhisagar is one of four major dams built on India\u2019s Chambal river. This dam is located in&nbsp;<\/strong>Mansour, Neemuch district of the state of&nbsp;<strong>Madhya Pradesh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gandhi Sagar Dam&nbsp;<strong>on the<a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/yamuna-river-system-upsc\/\">&nbsp;Chambal River<\/a>&nbsp;(Madhya Pradesh)<\/strong>&nbsp;is one of the five reservoirs of national importance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The&nbsp;Foundation stone of the construction of the Gandhinagar dam in the district was laid by prime minister pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on 7 March 1954.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rana Pratap Sagar Dam<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Rana Pratap Sagar Dam is a gravity masonry dam of 53.8 metres (177 ft) height&nbsp;<strong>built on the Chambal River at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan<\/strong>. It is part of&nbsp;<strong>integrated scheme<\/strong>&nbsp;of a cascade development of the river involving four projects starting with the&nbsp;<strong>Gandhi Sagar Dam<\/strong>&nbsp;in the upstream reach (48 kilometres (30 mi) upstream) in Madhya Pradesh and the<strong>&nbsp;Jawahar Sagar Dam<\/strong>&nbsp;on the downstream (28 kilometres (17 mi) downstream) with a terminal structure of the&nbsp;<strong>Kota Barrage<\/strong>&nbsp;(28 kilometres (17 mi) further downstream) in Rajasthan for irrigation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Indira Sagar<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Indira Sagar Dam is a multipurpose dam project in Madhya Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was built\u00a0<strong>on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/west-flowing-rivers-in-india-upsc\/\">Narmada river<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>which flows from Central India to Western India.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The downstream projects of Indira Sagar Project (ISP) are&nbsp;<strong>Omkareshwar, Maheshwar, and Sardar Sarovar Project.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>River&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Narmada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Narmada<\/a>,<\/strong>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<strong>fifth largest river in India<\/strong>, with a river flow length of 1,312&nbsp;km, originates from&nbsp;<strong>Amarkantak&nbsp;<\/strong>in Anuppur district of Madhya Pradesh. Narmada flows southwestward and after passing through Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and a small stretch in Maharashtra, it drains into the Arabian Sea near the Gulf of Khambhat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Maithon<\/strong>&nbsp;Dam<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/important-dams-in-india-for-upsc\/\">Maithon Dam<\/a>&nbsp;is located at Maithon in Jharkhand.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maithon Dam is located on the bank of the&nbsp;<strong>river Barakar.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is owned by the Damodar Valley Corporation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Damodar Valley Project on river Damodar in Jharkhand. Maithon dam was specially designed for flood control and generates 60,000 kW of electric power.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Barakar River<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Barakar River is the&nbsp;<strong>main tributary of the Damodar River<\/strong>&nbsp;in eastern India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Originating near Padma in&nbsp;<strong>Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand<\/strong>&nbsp;it flows for 225 kilometres (140 mi) across the northern part of the&nbsp;<strong>Chota Nagpur Plateau,<\/strong>&nbsp;mostly in a west to east direction, before joining the Damodar near Dishergarh in Asansol, Bardhaman district of West Bengal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tilaiya Dam:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Damodar Valley Corporation DVC\u2019s first dam, Tilaiya Dam, was across the Barakar at Tilaiya, in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand, now in Koderma district of Jharkhand.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tilaiya hydel power station is located on the<strong>&nbsp;left bank of the river Barakar.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Damodar-River-UPSC-1024x798.jpg\" alt=\"Maithon Dam\" class=\"wp-image-13888\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_a263d6-89 .kt-block-spacer{height:40px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_a263d6-89 .kt-divider{border-top-width:2px;border-top-color:#eee;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_a263d6-89\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Reservoirs&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; :&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;States How many pairs given above are not correctly matched? Answer: (c) Only three pairs Ghataprabha Gandhi Sagar Indira Sagar Maithon&nbsp;Dam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[37],"years":[51],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-geography","years-51"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":37,"label":"Geography"}],"years":[{"value":51,"label":"2022"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":37,"name":"Geography","slug":"geography","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":37,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":167,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}