RAS question
Mansi Wakal Dam supplies water to which city?
Correct answer: (C) Udaipur.
Mansi Wakal Dam supplies drinking water to Udaipur city.
Explanation
Mansi Wakal Dam is linked with Udaipur's drinking-water supply, not with the other large Rajasthan city systems. The Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project note describes the Udaipur city Mansi Wakal Water Supply Project, under which a 4.6 km tunnel near Dewas was built to take water from the mild steel pipeline coming from Mansi Wakal Dam and deliver it onward to a 23.35 MLD water treatment plant by gravity. The tunnel site is about 25 km from Udaipur, and Mansi Wakal Dam, on the Mansi Wakal River near Udaipur, is a major drinking-water source for Udaipur city.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Jodhpur is not served by the Mansi Wakal system; its drinking-water linkage is the IGNP pipeline.
- (B) Kota is associated with Chambal-based supply, whereas the Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project note covers the Mansi Wakal project for Udaipur city.
- (D) Jaipur is not the beneficiary city in the Mansi Wakal supply project; Jaipur's supply is linked to Bisalpur instead.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan water-resource geography, especially matching dams and regional drinking-water supply schemes with their beneficiary cities. It recurs in RAS because urban water projects are standard map-based and infrastructure-linked facts in Rajasthan geography.