Question

The Buckingham Canal runs through __________.
A) Tamil Nadu and Karnataka
B) Kerala and Andhra Pradesh
C) Tamil Nadu and Kerala
D) Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu

Answer 1

Hint: Another name of Buckingham Canal is Kommamur Canal. The Buckingham Canal connects the Adyar and Cooum rivers. It was created in \[1877\] and was designed as a famine relief endeavor. The Canal was called after the name of the Governor, the Duke of Buckingham, and Chandos.

Complete step by step answer:
The Buckingham Canal is an extended freshwater navigation canal, which runs parallel from Andhra Pradesh to Tamil Nadu state. The canal binds most of the natural backwaters along the shore to Chennai port. The canal was built during British rule and was a crucial waterway during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Contest from the rail and later street-conveyance lessened its significance, and during the \[20\] th-century the canal became impractical and badly unclean. More recently, there is improved concern in the canal's potential to conserve coastal societies from surging by tsunamis and cyclones as well as deliver a passable waterway, and undertakings have been launched to restore and promote the canal. The canal was dominated by the administration of Madras Presidency in \[1837\] and further extended, eventually entering north of Chennai to Andhra Pradesh, and south of Chennai to Tamil Nadu. It was in short renamed as Lord Clive's Canal.
So, the correct answer is Option D.

Note: The canal was utilized to deliver goods up and down primarily from the coast of Vijayawada to Chennai. The cyclones of \[1965/1966\] and \[1976\] deteriorated the canal. It was limitedly utilized and no longer well conserved. Within the city of Chennai, the canal was poorly messy due to sewage and industrial effluents.