Question

India’s biggest multipurpose river valley scheme is_____.
a. Kosi
b. Hirakund
c. Bhakra Nangal
d. Nagarjunasagar

Answer 1

Hint: A river valley framed by streaming water, called fluvial valley or waterway valley, is generally V-formed. The specific shape will rely upon the characteristic of the stream coursing through it. Streams with steep inclinations, as in mountain ranges, produce steep dividers and a base.

Complete solution:
Multipurpose river valley venture is essentially intended for the advancement of the water system for horticulture and power through the development of dams. At first, dams were fabricated uniquely for putting away downpour water to forestall flooding yet now it got multipurpose.

Project (Himachal Pradesh) Largest multipurpose venture in India and the most Noteworthy straight gravity dam on the planet (225.5 m high) on the stream Sutlej.

Bhakra Dam is a solid gravity dam on the Sutlej River in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh in northern India. The dam frames the Gobind Sagar store.

The dam, situated at a crevasse close to the (presently lowered) upstream Bhakra town in Bilaspur region of Himachal Pradesh of stature 226 m. The length of the dam (estimated from the street above it) is 518.25 m and the width is 9.1 m. Its repository is known as "Gobind Sagar" accumulates to 9.34 billion cubic meters of water. The 90 km long store made by the Bhakra Dam is spread over a region of 168.35 km2. Regarding the amount of water, it is the third biggest repository in India, the first being Indira Sagar dam in Madhya Pradesh with a limit of 12.22 billion cu m and second Nagarjunasagar Dam.

Portrayed as "New Temple of Resurgent India" by Jawaharlal Nehru, the main head administrator of India, the dam pulls in travellers from everywhere India. Bhakra Dam is 15 km from Nangal city and 20 km from Naina Devi town.

Nangal Dam is another dam in Punjab downstream of Bhakra Dam. Nonetheless, now and then both the dams together are called Bhakra-Nangal Dam however they are two separate dams.

Hence, the correct answer is option c.

Note:
The Bhakra-Nangal multipurpose dams were among the soonest waterway valley advancement plans attempted by India after autonomy however the venture had been considered well before India turned into a free country. The understanding for this undertaking had been endorsed by the then Punjab Revenue Minister, Sir Chhotu Ram in November 1944 with Raja of Bilaspur and concluded the task plan on 8 January 1945. Fundamental works initiated in 1946. Development of the dam began in 1948; Jawaharlal Nehru poured the initial basin of cement into the dry riverbed of the Sutlej on 17 November 1955, as an emblematic commencement of the work. Tending to a get-together there, he stated, "This is a blessing to the individuals of India and to the people in the future from the labourers who manufactured this dam", calling for "raising a commemoration" at the dam "in honour" of the workers. The dam was finished before the finish of 1963. Progressive stages were finished by the mid-1970s.