Ken Betwa River Interlinking project

Question 1

Cost of the project at 2020-21 price level

Answer 1

Rs. 44, 605 crore

Question 2

Centre would fund

Answer 2

39,317 crore with 36,290 crore as a grant and 3,027 as a loan

Question 3

Centre marked KBLP as a national project in

Answer 3

2008. Later included in PM’S package for development of drought prone Bundelkhand region

Question 4

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed for preparation of the Detailed Project Report between… In 2005

Answer 4

Min of Jal Shakti and UP (Tripartite agreement)

Question 5

The first project of National Perspective Plan for Interlinking of rivers

Answer 5

.

Question 6

Aims to transfer water from

Answer 6

Ken in MP to Betwa in UP

Question 7

Ken and Betwa are tributaries of which river

Answer 7

Yamuna

Question 8

Purpose of the KBLP

Answer 8

To irrigate the drought prone Bundelkhand Region

Question 9

UP and MP signed a tripartite agreement with the Centre in World Water Day (22nd March) to?

Answer 9

To finally implement this ambitious project

Question 10

Ken Betwa Link Canal ..221. Km long with a … 2 km long tunnel

Question 11

Special Purpose Vehicle

Answer 11

Ken Betwa Link Project Authority

Question 12

Amount of water to be diverted is

Answer 12

is 1,020 million cubic metres

Question 13

It has how many phases

Answer 13

Two

Question 14

In the first phase the Daudhan Damn complex which would be 77m talk and 2 km wide and the canal…

Answer 14

230 km

Question 15

Provide annual irrigation of

Answer 15

10.62 lakh ha

Question 16

Generating … MW of hydropower

Answer 16

103 MW of Hydropower

Question 17

… MW of Solar Power

Answer 17

27 MW of Solar Power

Question 18

Environmental concerns

Answer 18

Will submerge 9000 ha area including the Panna Tiger Reserve in MP and affect the habitat of vultures and jackal

Question 19

Cleared by apex wildlife regulator National Board for wildlife in

Answer 19

2016

Question 20

Official Name of National River Linking Project

Answer 20

National Perspective Plan

Question 21

In 1970s the idea of transferring surplus water from a river to water-deficit area was mooted by the then Union Irrigation Minister

Answer 21

Dr KL Rao

Question 22

When did the min of irrigation prepare a National Perspective Plan for water resources development envisaging inter basic transfer in the country

Answer 22

August 1980

Question 23

NPP comprises two components

Answer 23

Himalayan Rivers Development and Peninsular Rivers Development

Question 24

Total river links

Answer 24

30 (16-Peninsular and 14- Himalayan Component)

Question 25

River Linking idea revived under which government

Answer 25

Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government