Which of the following pair is NOT correctly matched?
Irrigation Project – District

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Correct — D, Barna Ghati Project – Ujjain. The Barna Ghati (Barna Dam) project is built on the Barna river, a Narmada tributary, and lies in RAISEN district, not Ujjain. Ujjain, though a prominent Malwa-region city, has no such irrigation project; the mismatch is the paired district, not the project's identity.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Correctly matched — the Bargi Dam, on the Narmada river, stands near Jabalpur; construction began in 1975 and it was completed in 1988.  (b) Correctly matched — the Tawa Dam, on the Tawa river (a Narmada tributary), lies in Hoshangabad (now Narmadapuram) district; built between 1958 and 1978.  (c) Correctly matched — the Matiyari Dam, on the Matiyari river (a Narmada tributary), is located in Mandla district.

Concept: Most of Madhya Pradesh's major irrigation projects sit on Narmada tributaries and are named for the river or valley they dam: Bargi (Narmada, near Jabalpur), Tawa (Tawa river, Hoshangabad/Narmadapuram), Matiyari (Matiyari river, Mandla), and Barna (Barna river, Raisen). The Barna Ghati project is genuinely a Narmada-basin scheme — the only error in option (d) is the paired district (Ujjain instead of the correct Raisen).

State PCS 2021 Q84 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2021 Q84 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer