Which of the following pairs of irrigation projects and their location is incorrect? Irrigation Project — District
- (a)Barna — Raisen
- (b)Kolar — Sehore
- (c)Sukta — Betul
- (d)Punasa — Khandwa
Correct — C, Sukta – Betul is the incorrectly matched pair. The Sukta irrigation project is not situated in Betul district; the other three pairs are genuine — Barna (Raisen), Kolar (Sehore) and Punasa/Indira Sagar (Khandwa) are all correctly matched.
- (a)Barna — Raisen — Correct pairing — the Barna Dam, on the Barna river (a Narmada tributary), is in Raisen district and has supplied irrigation since 1978.
- (b)Kolar — Sehore — Correct pairing — the Kolar Dam, on the Kolar river (a Narmada tributary), is in Sehore district just south-west of Bhopal; it also supplies a large share of Bhopal's drinking water.
- (d)Punasa — Khandwa — Correct pairing — Punasa, in Khandwa district, is the site of the Indira Sagar Dam on the Narmada, India's largest reservoir by stored-water volume.
Madhya Pradesh's major irrigation and dam projects are mostly built on the Narmada or its tributaries, and MPPSC regularly tests project-to-district matching. Three of the four pairs here — Barna-Raisen, Kolar-Sehore, Punasa(Indira Sagar)-Khandwa — are correct and well documented; the exam plants exactly one wrong pairing (Sukta-Betul) to check whether the candidate has actually memorised the map rather than pattern-matching on 'sounds plausible'.
Betul district lies in the Satpura hill tract, a source region for different rivers — it is a plausible-sounding but incorrect district for the Sukta project, which lies elsewhere in Madhya Pradesh.
- Barna Dam — Raisen district (on the Barna river, a Narmada tributary)
- Kolar Dam — Sehore district (on the Kolar river; also supplies Bhopal's drinking water)
- Punasa (Indira Sagar Dam) — Khandwa district (on the Narmada; India's largest reservoir by stored-water volume)
- The Sukta project is NOT located in Betul district, making 'Sukta — Betul' the incorrect pair
- Assuming any Narmada-tributary project could belong to any nearby-sounding district — the district assignment must be memorised, not guessed
- Confusing Betul (Satpura hill, headwater region) with the district where the Sukta project actually lies
MPPSC's favourite geography format here is 'which project-district pair is NOT correctly matched' — three real, verifiable pairs plus one swapped district; know the Narmada-basin project map cold.
Which of the following pairs are correctly matched? Irrigation Project — State 1. Damanganga : Gujarat 2. Girna : Maharashtra 3. Pamba : Kerala Select the correct answer using the code given below:
- (a) 1 and 2 only
- (b) 2 and 3 only
- (c) 1 and 3 only
- (d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer(d) 1, 2 and 3 — all three pairs are correctly matched.
Same irrigation-project-to-location matching format at the national level, testing the identical skill of memorising specific project locations.
MPPSC_2021_PRE_PaperI_Q842021Which of the following pair is NOT correctly matched? Irrigation Project – District
- (a) Bargi Project – Jabalpur
- (b) Tawa Project – Hoshangabad
- (c) Matiyari Dam Project – Mandla
- (d) Barna Ghati Project – Ujjain
Answer(d) Barna Ghati Project – Ujjain
Same exact question format one year earlier — irrigation project-to-district matching — and it plants the same Barna/Raisen fact as the trap district.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Kolar Dam, which supplies a significant share of Bhopal's drinking water, is located in which district of Madhya Pradesh?
- (a)Raisen
- (b)Sehore
- (c)Khandwa
- (d)Betul
Answer(b) Sehore.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which of the following is India's largest dam by reservoir (stored-water) volume?
- (a)Bhakra Dam
- (b)Indira Sagar Dam (Punasa, Khandwa)
- (c)Tehri Dam
- (d)Hirakud Dam
Answer(b) Indira Sagar Dam.