{"id":20190,"date":"2017-01-12T07:33:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T07:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=20190"},"modified":"2017-01-12T07:33:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T07:33:34","slug":"polavaram-irrigation-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/polavaram-irrigation-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Polavaram irrigation project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Polavaram irrigation project is being set up across which of the following river?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Krishna<br \/>\n(b) Kaveri<br \/>\n(c) Godavari<br \/>\n(d) Mahanadi<br \/>\n<strong>Ans:(c)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 26 December 2016; Central Government on Monday released Rs.1,981 crore, in the much-awaited first installment through Nabard, for the Polavaram irrigation project.<\/li>\n<li>The cheque was handed over to Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu by Union Minister for Water Resources Uma Bharti in the presence of Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Union Minister for Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu in New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>The amount is part of a loan from NABARD, sanctioned from the Long Term Irrigation Fund (LTIF) under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY).<\/li>\n<li>It was declared as a national project in 2014.<\/li>\n<li>It will be completed by 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Polavaram irrigation project is being set up across Godavari river.<\/li>\n<li>Polavaram is a multi-purpose project with an assessed cultural command area of 2.91 lakh hectares and power generation potential of 960 MW.<\/li>\n<li>Gujarat and Maharashtra were also sanctioned `463 crore and `756 crore respectively for their own projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ncbn\/status\/813348344856616960\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ncbn\/status\/813348344856616960<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/andhra-pradesh\/Centre-releases-Rs.-1981-cr.-for-Polavaram\/article16946638.ece\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/andhra-pradesh\/Centre-releases-Rs.-1981-cr.-for-Polavaram\/article16946638.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Polavaram irrigation project is being set up across which of the following river? (a) Krishna (b) Kaveri (c) Godavari (d) Mahanadi Ans:(c) Related facts: On 26 December 2016; Central Government on Monday released Rs.1,981 crore, in the much-awaited first installment through Nabard, for the Polavaram irrigation project. The cheque was handed over to Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[2497],"class_list":["post-20190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pp","tag-planning-project-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190\/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\/20132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20190"}],"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=20190"},{"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=20190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}