Question

In the hill and mountains region, people built diversion channels like the _____________ of the western Himalayas for agriculture.
(A) Kuls
(B) Khadins
(C) Johads
(D) Tankas

Answer 1

Hint
1. In these options, except one, every option is related to water storing or harvesting.
2. Diversion channel was built for Agriculturing in hill and mountain areas.

Complete step by step solution
Kuls-
1. People are developing channels like 'guls' or 'kuls' in the Western Himalayas.
2. Agricultural fields have been converted to rain-fed storage systems in arid and semi-arid areas.
3. For the purpose of irrigation, they are made and used.
4. There are channels of diversion.
5. In the state of Himachal Pradesh, they are mostly used.
6. They serve a very important role during construction and maintenance, and careful care should be taken.

Khadins –
1. The water shortage is very prevalent in the hot and dry weather regions, so water preservation or water harvesting in the hot and dry regions is very important.
2. Khadin is one of the traditional methods of harvesting rainwater that is mainly used in India's Rajasthan region.
3. It is very beneficial to store water as groundwater because it inherently prevents land erosion and is an impressive water storage system without any installation costs.
4. It is based on the concept of rainwater harvesting on farm land and the subsequent use for crop production of this water-saturated land.

Johads –
1. Johads are stores of rainwater that are essentially used to capture and store water.
 These are designed to preserve water over the contours of a slope, and are primarily made of mud.
2. The local name for Johads in Jaisalmer is Khadins. Johads are used in Haryana, essentially.
Johads is a water stockpiling tank practically used as part of the Haryana and Rajasthan Territory.
3. India, which regularly collects and stores water to be used by individuals and daily livestock to drink.


Tankas –
1. Tanka is a traditional technique of rainwater harvesting common to the Rajasthan, India, area of the Thar Desert.
2. It is intended to provide a single family or a group of families with drinking water and is an essential aspect of water protection in these areas.
3. A cylindrical underground storage of rainwater is a taanka.
4. The tankas were part of the well-developed rainwater collection system for the rooftop and were installed within the main house or the courtyard. They're built for drinking water storage. It is possible for a tank to be 6.1 meters deep, 4.27 meters long and 2.44 meters tall.
The tanks, especially in Bikaner, Phalodi and Barmer, were constructed in the semi-arid and arid regions of Rajasthan.

Option A. Kuls is the correct answer

Note
1. Kuls permitted the water, like the 'Khadins' in Jaisalmer and 'Johads' in other parts of Rajasthan, to stand and moisten the soil.