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Geography - Rivers in India
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Q161
The strategic 'Nimoo Bazgo' hydroelectric project, constructed to harness the high velocity of a mountain stream in the cold desert terrain of Ladakh, is built across which river channel?
Shyok
Indus
Zanskar
Suru
Explanation
The Nimoo Bazgo Power Station is a run-of-the-river power project constructed across the Indus River in Ladakh, situated approximately 70 km upstream from Leh.
Q162
Which of the following east-flowing rivers originates from the Nagri Pikla peak of the Eastern Ghats in Odisha and forms a prominent estuary near Dhamra?
Subarnarekha
Baitarani
Vamsadhara
Rushikulya
Explanation
The Baitarani River originates from the Gonasika/Nagri hills of Keonjhar district in Odisha and later joins the Brahmani River to form a combined estuarine delta before emptying into the Bay of Bengal at Dhamra.
Q163
The controversial 'Kosi-Ghaghara' link project is an interstate component under the National River Linking Project designed to benefit which specific agricultural command tracks?
The Arid Rayalaseema Basins
The Purvanchal and North Bihar Agrarian Plains
The Marathwada Drought Plateau
The Saurashtra Marine Marginal Strips
Explanation
The Kosi-Ghaghara link project aims to transfer surplus water from the Kosi basin westward across North Bihar to the Ghaghara basin, bringing immense irrigation expansion parameters to the Purvanchal and North Bihar agrarian plains.
Q164
Which of the following tributaries of the Indus system cuts through the Great Himalayan Range to enter India via the rugged Shipki La pass corridor?
Ravi
Sutlej
Chenab
Beas
Explanation
The Sutlej River originates in Tibet near Lake Rakshasthal, cuts a deep antecedent trench through the Himalayan axes, and enters India in Himachal Pradesh via the Shipki La pass.
Q165
The hydro-electric engineering infrastructure called 'Nizamsagar Dam' is an architectural storage facility constructed on the path of which right-bank tributary of the Godavari?
Indravati
Manjira
Sabari
Pranhita
Explanation
The Nizamsagar Dam is constructed across the Manjira River (a major right-bank tributary of the Godavari) in the Kamareddy district of Telangana.
Q166
The institutional tracking council known as the 'Cauvery Water Management Authority' (CWMA) was legally constituted to regulate resource allocations primarily among which states?
Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Telangana
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Puducherry
Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh
Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh
Explanation
The CWMA handles the complex allocation parameters of the Cauvery basin water resource among the states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and the Union Territory of Puducherry.
Q167
Which left-bank tributary of the Ganga system contains the specialized 'Valmiki National Park core boundary track', matching its entry point from Nepal into India?
Kosi River
Gandak River
Gomti Conduit
Ghaghara Matrix
Explanation
The Gandak River (known as the Narayani in Nepal) cuts through the hills and forms the western edge of the Valmiki National Park ecosystem in West Champaran, Bihar, as it enters the plains.
Q168
The unique structural landscape layer called the 'Chambal gorge cliff line' features which prominent historical fortress anchor built directly above the deep river channel loop?
The Mehrangarh Desert citadel
The Bhainsrorgarh structural cliff fort
The Golconda granitic plateau frame
The Jaisalmer golden sand rampart
Explanation
The spectacular, deeply incised canyons of the Chambal River track feature the historic, strategically situated structures of the Shergarh and Taragarh outposts, with the Bhainsrorgarh Fort sitting directly on a cliff junction over the Chambal-Bamani confluence.
Q169
The historic 'Chutak Hydroelectric Project', engineered to harness a high-altitude glacial stream under severe winter sub-zero parameters, is built across which river channel in Ladakh?
Shyok
Suru
Zanskar
Dras
Explanation
The Chutak Hydroelectric Project is a run-of-the-river power scheme constructed across the Suru River, a major tributary of the Indus River, in the Kargil district of Ladakh.
Q170
Which of the following east-flowing rivers originates in the Chota Nagpur Plateau of Jharkhand and is heavily associated with the 'Hundru Falls' structural scarp?
Damodar
Subarnarekha
Brahmani
Baitarani
Explanation
The Subarnarekha River originates near Ranchi on the Chota Nagpur Plateau and forms the famous Hundru Falls where it drops 98 meters over a crystalline plateau scarp edge.