Discussion
The Bhakra Nangal project supplies irrigation and power chiefly to which states?
Answer: D
Correct answer: Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan
The Bhakra Nangal project on the Sutlej serves Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan, and it was the irrigation backbone of the Green Revolution in those states. The Bhakra Dam in Himachal Pradesh, at 226 metres, is among the highest gravity dams in the world and impounds the Gobind Sagar reservoir; the Nangal Dam a short distance downstream in Punjab regulates the release into the canal system. Nehru called such projects the temples of modern India, and Bhakra was the largest undertaken in the years after independence. The waters it uses are India’s share of the eastern rivers under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, which allotted the Ravi, Beas and Sutlej to India and the Indus, Jhelum and Chenab to Pakistan. The other major multipurpose projects are worth knowing alongside it: Damodar Valley in Jharkhand and West Bengal, Hirakud on the Mahanadi, Nagarjuna Sagar on the Krishna, and Sardar Sarovar on the Narmada.
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