Question

The Farakka Project is mainly aimed to _________.
(A) irrigating more land in West Bengal
(B) utilizing a maximum of Ganga water
(C) preserving the port of Kolkata
(D) production of electricity

Answer 1

Hint: Farakka Barrage is a flurry across the Ganga river found in Murshidabad area in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is approximately 18 kilometres from the boundary with Bangladesh near Shibganj.

Complete step-by-step solution:
Farakka Barrage Township is found in Farakka in Murshidabad area. The Farakka bombardment that India commenced designing in 1962, was finished in 1970 for $208 million. Operations commenced on 21 April 1975. The bombardment is about 2,304 metres long. The Feeder Canal from the bombardment to the Bhagirathi-Hooghly River is about 42 km long. The barrage was built by Hindustan Construction Company. Away of 109 gates, 108 are over the river and the 109th one over the low-lying turf in Malda, as protection. The Barrage administers water to the Farakka Super Thermal Power Station. There are also sixty small ducts which can distract some water to other ends for drinking bases etc.
The objective of the barrage is to deflect about 1,800 cubic metres per second of water from the Ganges to the Hooghly River for flushing out the sediment confirmation from the Kolkata harbour without the necessity of regular mechanical dredging.
The central motive of the Farakka Barrage Project is to entertain adequate abundance of Ganga waters to Bhagirathi-Hooghly river system through $38.38$ km long feeder canal for conservation and supervision of Kolkata Port by expanding the management and navigability of the Bhagirathi-Hooghly river system.

Thus, option (C) is correct.

Note: After delegating the project, it was found that the diverted water flow from the Farakka barrage was not sufficient to rinse the residue from the river satisfactorily. Moreover, there are formal land/bank collapses into the Ganga river because of the high-level backwaters of the Farakka barrage.