Tuesday 17 November 2015

Geography: (note down eaach every ques) (indian geography)

1.The Largest water Reservoir in India?  ans-indirasagar dam

Explaination: The Indirasagar Dam is a multipurpose project of Madhya Pradesh on the Narmada River at NarmadanagarMundi in the Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh in India. The foundation stone of the project was laid by late Smt Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India on 23 October 1984. The construction of main dam started in 1992. The downstream projects of ISP are OmkareshwarMaheshwar, and Sardar Sarovar Project.n terms of storage of water, it withholds the largest reservoir in India, with capacity of 12.22 billion cu m, followed by Nagarjuna Sagar between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The dam, built as a joint venture between Madhya Pradesh irrigation and National Hydroelectric Power Corporation. It was commissioned on May 2005.

2.The most fertile region of India is?  ans-Indo-Gangetic Plain

Explaination:The Indo-Gangetic Plain, also known as Indus-Ganga and the North Indian River Plain, is a 255 million hectare (630 million acre) fertile plain encompassing most of northern and eastern India, the eastern parts of Pakistan, and virtually all ofBangladesh.[1] The region is named after the Indus and the Ganga, and encompasses a number of large urban areas.
The Prinsep Ghat which is located on the bank of the Hooghly River in the city of KolkataWest Bengal
Boatmen row between Barrackporeand Serampore on the Hooghly river. A photograph shot in 2006
The Indus-Ganga plain is bound on the north by the Himalayas which feed its numerous rivers and are the source of the fertile alluvium deposited across the region by the two river systems. The southern edge of the plain is marked by the Chota Nagpur Plateau. On the west rises the Iranian Plateau.


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