MCQ
Q.
Who is considered as father of Indira Gandhi Nahar Scheme?
Correct Answer: A
The correct answer is Kanwar Sen
- Kanwar Sen was an eminent civil engineer from Rajasthan.
- He was the Chief Engineer in the Bikaner state who came up with the idea of the Rajasthan Canal. He successfully implemented the Ganga canal project too.
- The idea of bringing the waters from the Himalayan Rivers flowing through Punjab and into Pakistan was conceived by him in the late 1940s.
- He proposed that 2,000,000 ha (20,000 km2) of desert land in Bikaner and the northwest corner of Jaisalmer could be brought under irrigation from the waters of Punjab rivers.
Key Points
- The Indira Gandhi Canal is the longest canal in India.
- This project is previously known as the Rajasthan Canal Project.
- The canal is one of the projects of the Green revolution in India.
- It starts from the Harike Barrage at Harike, a few kilometers below the confluence of the Satluj and Beas rivers in the Indian state of Punjab, and terminates in irrigation facilities in the Thar Desert in the northwest of Rajasthan state.
- Indira Gandhi Canal is 649 km long and consists of the Rajasthan feeder canal and Rajasthan main canal and runs through 167 km in Punjab and Haryana and remaining 492 km in Rajasthan.
- The canal traverses 7 districts of Rajasthan: Barmer, Bikaner, Churu, Hanumangarh, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, and Sriganganagar.
