Answer» Correct Answer - Option 4 : Indira Gandhi canal
The correct answer is the Indira Gandhi canal. - Indira Gandhi canal is the largest irrigation canal in India.
- It was originally called the Rajasthan Canal.
- It is 650 km long.
- Indira Gandhi canal starts from the Harike Barrage at Harike, near the confluence of the Satluj and Beas rivers in the state of Punjab and terminates in irrigation facilities in the Thar Desert in the north-west of Rajasthan state.
- It consists of Rajasthan feeder canal and Rajasthan main canal which runs through 167 km in Punjab and Haryana and remaining 492 km in Rajasthan.
- The canal is one of the projects of Green revolution in India and also runs through The Great Thar Desert.
- Yamuna canal was renovated in 1335 by Firoz Shah Tughlaq.
- It was originally built before the era of Prithviraj Chauhan.
- Sirhind Canal carries water from the Sutlej River in Punjab.
- Upper Bari Doab Canal is located on the region between Ravi and Beas hence, is known as Bari Doab.
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