Question

“Indira Gandhi Canal”, which is around 650 km long, provides irrigation facility mainly to which of the following states?
A. Punjab
B. Haryana
C. Rajasthan
D. Gujarat

Answer 1

Hint: After the development of the Indira Gandhi Canal, water system offices were accessible over a zone of 6,770 km2 (1,670,000 sections of land) in the Jaisalmer locale and 37 km2 (9,100 sections of land) in Barmer area. The water system had just been given in a territory of 3,670 km2 (910,000 sections of land) in the Jaisalmer region; the waterway has changed the desolate deserts of this area into rich and great fields.

Complete answer:
The Indira Gandhi Canal (Originally: Rajasthan Canal) is the longest waterway in India. It starts from the Harike Barrage at Harike, several kilometers underneath the crossing point of the Satluj and Beas streams in the Indian area of Punjab and closures in water framework workplaces in the Thar Desert in the north-west of Rajasthan state. As of late known as the Rajasthan Canal, it was renamed the Indira Gandhi Canal on 2 November 1984 after the passing of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Indira Gandhi Canal is a 650 km long irrigation facility provided mainly to Rajasthan.

The channel comprises the Rajasthan feeder trench with the initial 167 kilometers (104 mi) in Punjab and Haryana state and a further 37 kilometers (23 mi) in Rajasthan followed by the 445 kilometers (277 mi) of the Rajasthan fundamental waterway, which is altogether inside Rajasthan. The channel enters Haryana from Punjab close to Lohgarh town at that point goes through the western portion of the Sirsa area before entering Rajasthan close to Kharakhera town in the Tibbi tehsil of the Hanumangarh region.

Thus, option (C) is correct.

Note: Bringing the waters from the Himalayan Rivers coursing through Punjab and into Pakistan was brought about by a pressure-driven architect, Kanwar Sain in the last part of the 1940s who suggested that 2,000,000 ha (20,000 km2) of desert land in Bikaner and the northwest corner of Jaisalmer could be brought underwater system from the put-away waters of Punjab waterways. In 1960, Indus Water Treaty was endorsed by India and Pakistan which gave India the option to utilize waters of three waterways – the Satluj, Beas, and Ravi. The proposed Rajasthan Canal imagined utilization of 7.6 million sections of land feet of water.