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NDA 2019 GAT · General Knowledge · Indian Geography · medium

Which river was known as the 'Sorrow of Bengal' before the construction of dams on it?

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Which river was known as the 'Sorrow of Bengal' before the construction of dams on it?
  1. A. Damodar
  2. B. Kosi
  3. C. Hooghly
  4. D. Mahanadi
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Answer: (A) Damodar

The Damodar, which flows through Jharkhand and West Bengal, caused frequent destructive floods before the Damodar Valley Corporation built multipurpose dams. The Kosi is the 'Sorrow of Bihar', and the Hooghly is a distributary of the Ganga and not a flood menace of that kind.
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