Multipurpose projects and reservoirs by river and state: Bhakra Nangal, Hirakud, Damodar valley (Maithon, Panchet), Nagarjuna Sagar, Gandhi Sagar, Indira Sagar, Sardar Sarovar, Tehri, Tungabhadra, Ghataprabha, Aliyar, Isapur, Kangsabati
Whole chapter · 13–19 focused hours
India: drainage and water resources
A first-attempt learner with school-level reading, basic arithmetic and little retained geography; later chapters assume the earlier physical-process chapters have been studied. Basic literacy remediation and Geography optional are outside this estimate.
Includes
- Selected primary readings and their diagrams/maps
- Brief comparison notes and process/map sketches
- Available mapped practice, mistake review and one initial recall review
Separate time needed
- Later spaced revisions and full-paper mocks
- Reading every optional exercise or every source book in full
- Excludes technical irrigation choice/efficiency in Agriculture, water-dispute adjudication in Polity/IR, current treaty positions and repeated map-chapter drills.
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
Where to study this topic
- Contemporary India II, Class X, chapter 3: Water Resources (Reprint 2026-27) ↗
ch. 3, multi-purpose, p. 3-5 (book pages 21-23)
- Contemporary India II, Class X, chapter 3: Water Resources (Reprint 2026-27) ↗
ch. 3, Hirakud, p. 4-5 (book pages 22-23)
- Majid Husain's Geography of India, publisher page with contents ↗
ch. 3, Drainage Systems and Water Resources
Whole chapter reading
- India: Physical Environment, Class XI, chapter 3: Drainage System (2026-27) ↗
Drainage System: basin evolution, river systems, tributaries and diagrams
- India: People and Economy, Class XII, chapter 4: Water Resources (Reprint 2026-27) ↗
Water Resources: surface/groundwater distribution, demand, scarcity and conservation examples; read statistical tables with their stated dates
- Majid Husain's Geography of India, publisher page with contents ↗
Chapter 3: Drainage Systems and Water Resources; use its index for tributaries and basins omitted from NCERT
Book required - Our Water Resources ↗
Section 21.5, PDF pp. 7–8: source categories, alluvial-well setting and peninsular tank examples; exclude dated shares and rankings. Methods and productivity are assigned in Agriculture.