Question

Name the dam built on River Chenab in India.

Hint:

Match the river to its dam. The Chenab flows through Jammu and Kashmir, so look for the hydroelectric project of that region rather than a dam of the plains.

Answer 1

Concept:

• The river named in a question narrows the answer to a single region, and the region then narrows it to a single dam.
• The Chenab belongs to the Indus system in the far north.

Step 1: Locate the river.
The Chenab is one of the five rivers of the Punjab system, part of the wider Indus system, and it flows through Jammu and Kashmir before entering Pakistan.

Step 2: Work out what kind of dam suits that stretch.
In the mountains a river falls steeply over a short distance, which is ideal for generating electricity rather than for spreading irrigation. So the dam on the Chenab is a hydroelectric one.

Step 3: Name it.
That project is the Salal Dam.

Step 4: Cross-check against the dams of other rivers.
Bhakra Nangal belongs to the Satluj and Beas, Tehri to the Bhagirathi, Hirakud to the Mahanadi and Sardar Sarovar to the Narmada, so none of them can be the answer here.

Final Answer: The dam on the Chenab is the Salal Dam.