Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Geography

Chapter

India-People and Economy: Geographical Perspective on selected issues and Problems

Question:

Match the following options correctly:

List 1

List 2

(a) Mahatma Gandhi

(i) Extraction of water by Haryana and Uttar Pradesh for irrigation

(b) Yamuna River’s Pollution

(ii) Rajiv Gandhi Mission for Watershed Management

(c) Ganga River’s Pollution

(iii) Considered villages to be the ideal republics

(d) Jhabua district

(iv) Dumping of carcasses in the river.

 

Options:

(a)- i, (b)- ii, (c)- iv, (d)- iii

(a)- iii, (b)- ii, (c)- iv, (d)- i

(a)- iii, (b)- i, (c)- iv, (d)- ii

(a)- ii, (b)- i, (c)- iv, (d)- iii

Correct Answer:

(a)- iii, (b)- i, (c)- iv, (d)- ii

Explanation:

Nature of pollution of Yamuna River- Extraction of water by Haryana and Uttar Pradesh for irrigation, Agricultural runoff resulting in high levels of micro-pollutants in the Yamuna, Domestic and industrial waste of Delhi flowing into the river

Nature of pollution of Ganga River-
Industrial pollution from towns like Kanpur, Domestic wastes from Urban centers, and Dumping of carcasses in the river.

Watershed Management Programmes acknowledge the linkage between land, water and vegetation and attempt to improve the livelihoods of people through natural resource management and community participation. In the past five years, the programmes funded by the Ministry of Rural Development alone (implemented by Rajiv Gandhi Mission for Watershed Management) have treated 20 per cent of the total area under the Jhabua district.

India, which has a predominance of rural population (approximately 69 per cent of the total population in 2011) and where villages were considered the ideal republics by Mahatma Gandhi, most of the rural areas are still poor performing primary activities.