RAS question
Pipli pumping station is associated with which water project?
Correct answer: (A) Bisalpur-Jaipur water supply.
Pipli pumping station is associated with the Bisalpur-Jaipur water supply project.
Explanation
Pipli pumping station belongs to the Bisalpur-Jaipur drinking-water pipeline system, which lifts water from Bisalpur Dam towards Jaipur city. The official Rajasthan eProcurement listing supports this association by showing PHED work described as operation and maintenance of pipelines and valves in the Bisalpur Water Supply Project for Jagatpura, Pratap Nagar and Mahal Road areas under Project Division I South Jaipur. That Jaipur-side project reference fits the explanation: Pipli is not an independent canal or irrigation scheme marker, but a pumping point on the drinking-water supply chain carrying Bisalpur water to Jaipur.
Why the other options are wrong
- (B) Narmada Canal is linked to water brought from Gujarat, not to the Bisalpur-Jaipur drinking-water pipeline on which Pipli pumping station is placed.
- (C) ERCP is a different Rajasthan water project, so it does not explain the Pipli pumping station on the Bisalpur-Jaipur supply line.
- (D) IGNP refers to the Indira Gandhi Nahar Project in western Rajasthan, whereas Pipli pumping station is tied to Jaipur's Bisalpur drinking-water supply.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan's major drinking-water supply projects and their infrastructure nodes. RAS repeats such questions because project names, dams, canals and city supply links are common map-based factual traps.