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The Damodar Valley Corporation was modelled on which foreign project?
Answer: B
Correct answer: The Tennessee Valley Authority
The Damodar Valley Corporation, established in 1948, was modelled on the American Tennessee Valley Authority and was India’s first multipurpose river valley project. The Damodar was called the sorrow of Bengal for its devastating floods, and the corporation was created to control them while also generating power, providing irrigation and supporting navigation and afforestation - the integrated basin-wide approach the TVA had pioneered in the 1930s. It operates a series of dams across Jharkhand and West Bengal, including Tilaiya, Konar, Maithon and Panchet, together with thermal stations, and it supplies the industrial belt around Durgapur, Bokaro and Asansol - a region built on the coal of the Damodar valley fields. Its record is mixed. Flood control has been only partly achieved, since fewer dams were built than planned and siltation has reduced storage. It nonetheless set the pattern for Bhakra Nangal, Hirakud and the other projects of the period.
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