Which of the following districts receives higher rainfall during the rainy season?

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Correct — C, Mandla. Mandla lies in Madhya Pradesh's south-eastern Mahakoshal region, on the hilly, forested fringe of the Maikal-Satpura tract that catches the Bay of Bengal branch of the south-west monsoon early and heavily — this eastern belt (Mandla, Balaghat, Dindori, Seoni) is consistently the wettest part of the state.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Sits in the central Narmada valley — it gets a fair, dependable monsoon but well below the high-rainfall eastern hill belt.  (b) In the north-western Malwa Plateau — one of MP's comparatively drier tracts, largely out of reach of the Bay of Bengal branch.  (d) In the Bundelkhand region of northern MP — a comparatively low and erratic-rainfall, drought-prone tract.

Concept: Rainfall across Madhya Pradesh is not uniform: the south-eastern Mahakoshal districts (Mandla, Balaghat, Dindori, Seoni) receive the heaviest monsoon rainfall because they lie in the path of the Bay of Bengal branch of the south-west monsoon and have hilly, forested terrain that forces the moisture-laden air to rise and shed rain. Rainfall broadly decreases moving from the state's south-east toward its north-west.

State PCS 2022 Q76 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2022 Q76 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer