{"id":17026,"date":"2016-10-21T11:12:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T11:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=17026"},"modified":"2016-10-21T11:12:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T11:12:44","slug":"report-committee-formed-study-existence-river-saraswati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/report-committee-formed-study-existence-river-saraswati\/","title":{"rendered":"Report of the Committee formed to study the existence of river \u2018Saraswati\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Who headed the Committee formed to find the existence of the river \u2018Saraswati\u2019?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Prof. Madhav Chitale<br \/>\n(b) Prof. K.S. Valdiya<br \/>\n(c) Prof. A.K Valdiya<br \/>\n(d) Prof. Deepak Bhadoria<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 15 October 2016 Union Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Sushri Uma Bharati released a Report on Palaeo Channel of North West India(In particular the existence of river Saraswati): Review &amp; Assessment by Expert Committee.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The seven-member committee, headed by Professor K.S. Valdiya of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a senior Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), Saraswati passed through Pakistan before meeting Western Sea through Rann of Kutch and was approximately 4,000 km in length.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">One-third of the river stretch fell in present-day Pakistan. The longer, two-third stretch measuring nearly 3000 km in length fell in India.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">This river was once upon a time the lifeline of North-Western states of India and a vibrant series of civilizations from Mahabharata period to Harappa had flourished on the banks of this river.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In its report, the seven-member committee has stated that the river had two branches: western and eastern.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Himalayan-born Satluj \u201cof the PAST\u201d, which flowed through the channels of present-day Ghaggar-Patialiwali rivulets, represents the western branch of the ancient river.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whereas, Markanda and Sarsuti (corruption of Saraswati) represented the western branch of Saraswati, known as Tons-Yamuna.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">During its six-month research period, the committee studied piles of sediments, their shapes and features which appeared to have been brought by a \u201cbig river\u201d and are reminiscent to ones found in present-day Ghaggar, Ganga and Yamuna.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=151687\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=151687<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/saraswati-river-did-exist-govt-constituted-expert-committee-116101500558_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/saraswati-river-did-exist-govt-constituted-expert-committee-116101500558_1.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/govt-panel-of-experts-says-river-saraswati-did-exist\/article9224818.ece\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/govt-panel-of-experts-says-river-saraswati-did-exist\/article9224818.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who headed the Committee formed to find the existence of the river \u2018Saraswati\u2019? (a) Prof. Madhav Chitale (b) Prof. K.S. Valdiya (c) Prof. A.K Valdiya (d) Prof. Deepak Bhadoria Ans: (b) Reference: On 15 October 2016 Union Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Sushri Uma Bharati released a Report on Palaeo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1133],"tags":[2557],"class_list":["post-17026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cc","tag-commission-committee-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}