Discussion
The multipurpose project across river Chambal designed to generate electricity (MW) to control floods and provide irrigation water to surrounding agricultural land in Rajasthan, lies to the North of Gandhi Sagar Project. It is named as: (Choose the most appropriate option from below)
Answer: C
The keyed answer is the Rana Pratap Sagar dam.
The Chambal Valley Project has three dams in a chain: Gandhi Sagar in Madhya Pradesh, then Rana Pratap Sagar at Rawatbhata in Chittorgarh district, then Jawahar Sagar, with the Kota barrage below them for irrigation. Rana Pratap Sagar is the next dam downstream, to the north, of Gandhi Sagar, and it serves power generation, flood control and irrigation.
Jawahar Sagar lies further downstream and is mainly a power dam, while Ganga Sagar and Rampad Sagar are not dams of the Chambal project.
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