Question

________ District has the largest area under canal irrigation in karnataka.
A.Raichur
B.Yadgir
C.Gulbarga
D.Bellary

Answer 1

Hint: Irrigation canals are the fundamental streams that bring water system water from a water source to the zones to be treated with irrigation. They can be fixed with solid, block, stone, or an adaptable layer to forestall leakage and disintegration.

Complete answer: Option C. The Upper Krishna Project (UKP) is a water system project across the Krishna River to give water systems to the dry spell inclined territories of Bijapur, Bagalkot, Gulbarga, Yadgir, and Raichur areas in the province of Karnataka in south India. The venture had been planned by the Government of Karnataka to irrigate 1,536,000 units (acres) of the land (6,220 km²).
The significant recipient of the undertaking would be the Gulbarga region with around 950,000 sections of land going under irrigation.
The establishment stone for the undertaking was laid by the then Indian leader Lal Bahadur Shastri on 22 May 1964. It was intended to inundate 1,536,000 acres of land in Gulbarga, Raichur, Bijapur, Bagalkot, and now Yadgir. UKP plans to utilize the greater part of 173 thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) of water designated to the province of Karnataka by the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal, headed by R. S. Bachawat Tribunal, in May 1976. The underlying assessment of the expense of the undertaking was INR 120 crores (USD 17 million); be that as it may, after numerous amendments, the last expense of the task came to INR 10,371.67 crores (USD 1.5 billion), and it required 42 years for the venture to be finished. 201 towns were influenced by the undertaking and 136 towns were totally washed away in the backwaters of the dam built as a piece of the task.

Note: A hydel power generator plant introduced for a limit of 297 MW has been mulled over at Almatti, which it is assessed would produce around 672 million units every year. This work has been relegated to KPCL, a Karnataka Government organization. It is required to expand the generation of food grains and money crops in the border territory of the UKP, adding ₹6,000 crores (US$840 million) to the nation's economy yearly and animating flourishing and development in any case of the dry season and financially in the reverse locale of the northeastern piece of Karnataka. The undertaking is additionally proposed to give drinking water to 18 metropolitan and a few provincial habitats.