UPSC Prelims 2013 · Question 82 of 99
UPSC Prelims 2013 question on National Parks and Rivers
- ExamUPSC CSE
- Year2013
- PaperGeneral Studies Paper I
- SubjectGeography
- TopicIndian Geography
- DifficultyMedium
- TypeMatch
Consider the following pairs:
National Park — River flowing through the Park
1. Corbett National Park — Ganga
2. Kaziranga National Park — Manas
3. Silent Valley National Park — Kaveri
Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?
Show answer
Answer: D. None
Verdict
Correct Answer: None
Analysis
According to the official UPSC Answer Key for Prelims 2013 General Studies Paper, the correct option is “None”.
The question is based on matching national parks with rivers flowing through or associated with them. All the given pairs are incorrectly matched.
Statement by statement
1. Corbett National Park — Ganga — Incorrect
The main river associated with Corbett National Park is Ramganga.
The Ganga does not flow through Corbett National Park.
Ramganga is a tributary of the Ganga, but the pair given in the question is not correct.
2. Kaziranga National Park — Manas — Incorrect
Kaziranga National Park is mainly associated with the Brahmaputra river.
Other rivers linked with Kaziranga include Diphlu and Mora Dhansiri.
The Manas river is associated with Manas National Park, not Kaziranga.
3. Silent Valley National Park — Kaveri — Incorrect
Silent Valley National Park is associated with the Kunthipuzha river.
Kunthipuzha is a tributary of Bharathapuzha, also known as Nila.
It is not associated with the Kaveri river system.
Extra UPSC info
* Corbett National Park is located in Uttarakhand and is India’s oldest national park.
* Corbett was earlier known as Hailey National Park.
* Corbett was the first national park brought under Project Tiger in 1973.
* Kaziranga National Park is in Assam and is famous for the one-horned rhinoceros.
* Annual floods of the Brahmaputra help maintain Kaziranga’s grassland and wetland ecosystem.
* Silent Valley National Park is in Kerala and was linked with the Save Silent Valley movement.
How to crack it
None of the given national park-river pairs is correctly matched because Corbett is linked with Ramganga, Kaziranga with Brahmaputra, and Silent Valley with Kunthipuzha.