Question

What are Multipurpose River Valley Projects? Name any two such projects. List the main objectives of a multipurpose river valley project.​

Answer 1

Answer. Multipurpose river valley project is a dam or series of dam constructed across the river to store water. Hirakund dam in India, Hoover river valley project in USA. The main objective of multipurpose river valley project is to store water for irrigation, generation of electricity, factorial use etc

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Answer 2

Answer:

Multipurpose river valley project are basically designed for the development of irrigation for agriculture and electricity through the construction of dams. Initially, dams were built only for storing rain water to prevent flooding but now it became multipurpose

the two such projects are.

1.Damodar Valley Project:

Prototype of USA’s Tennessee Valley Authority, DVC project was one of the very few composite projects, consisting of irrigation, flood protection meas­ures, hydel power projects etc. Since its inception in 1948, this project was more or less respon­sible for economic revival of the area.

The aggressive Damodar, during the rainy season, with all its surplus water used to en­gulf the entire region. Periodic and successive flood was so disastrous that Damodar was aptly known as ‘Curse of Bengal’. But after the construction of several dams, recurrence of flood is nowadays a bygone chapter. Storage dams were constructed at Tilaiya, Maithan, Panchet and Konar.

The combined area controlled by all these dams is about 13,500 sq.km. Hydel power generation plants were erected at Panchet, Tilaiya and Maithon. Three thermal stations were also created at Chandrapura, Durgapur and Bokaro to provide power to the core sectors of industry and commerce e.g. Railway, Steel Plants, Coal mines. The major objectives of this pioneer and ambitious project include irrigation, power gen­eration, flood control, fishing, health improvement and recreation in the area.

2.The Kosi Project:

Kosi, the most unpredictable river in Bihar, was responsible for permanent recurrence of annual flood in middle Ganga plain. This feeble, apparently small river, debouches from Nepal Himalaya, increasing in vigour and intensity rapidly during the rainy season. The principal object of this project was to control the annual flood, followed, by power generation and irrigation to the neglected Saharsa and Purnea districts.

Project:

(a) Three canals were constructed, one each at eastern and western side and another at Rajpur, to irrigate cultivable lands of Monghyr and Saharsa districts.

(b) A barrage was erected at Hanumannagar.

(c) A large protective embankment was created to protect the entire area of Darbhanga district from annual flood.

(d) Power projects were installed around Termi Bazar. The Kosi project is the out­come of a joint effort by India and Nepal.