Indian Geography Objective Questions and Answers | page-24

Answer: Option [A]

River Damodar is called ‘Sorrow of Bengal’ because it gets flooded often causing havoc. Damodar River was earlier known as the "River of Sorrows" as it used to flood many areas of Bardhaman, Hooghly, Howrah and Medinipur districts. Even now the floods sometimes affect the lower Damodar Valley, but the havoc it wreaked in earlier years is now a matter of history. The floods were virtually an annual ritual.

Answer: Option [C]

The correct answer is Kawas - Gujarat. NTPC Kawas is located at Aditya Nagar, Hazira in Surat district in the Indian state of Gujarat. The power plant is the gas-based combined cycle power plants of NTPC.

Answer: Option [C]

Kharif crops are sown at the beginning of the South-West monsoon. Kharif crops are sown during the onset of the monsoon season around the month of June and harvested at the end of this season during the months of September and October.

Answer: Option [A]

The correct answer is Guaranteed maximum prices. 'Guranteed maximum prices' has not been a component of the agriculture strategy that brought about the Green Revolution. The strategy aimed at increasing the yield of crops using fertilizer, pesticide and high yielding verities in agriculture.

Answer: Option [B]

A high growth rate of population is characterized by high birth and low death rates. Natural increase in a population takes place where the birth rate is greater than the death rate. India's population is calculated to be around one billion. It has one of the highest population growth rates in the world. In the last ten years its population has risen by 181 million.