RAS question
The Konkan Coast extends from:
Correct answer: (B) Daman to Goa (Maharashtra's western coast).
The Konkan Coast extends from Daman in the north to Goa in the south along Maharashtra's western coast.
Explanation
The Konkan Coast is the western coastal strip associated with Maharashtra, running from Daman in the north to Goa in the south. The cited NIOS geography chapter identifies this roughly 500 km coastal strip as Konkan, and distinguishes it from the next coastal sections further south: the Karnataka coast from Goa to Mangalore and the Malabar coast from Mangalore up to Kanyakumari. That makes Daman to Goa the precise span being tested here, rather than a broad label for the whole western coast. The explanation also fits the standard coastal-plain sequence: Gujarat and Kathiawar lie to the north, Konkan covers the Daman-Goa stretch, and Kanara/Malabar continue southward.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Gujarat to Maharashtra is too broad because Gujarat includes the Kathiawar/Gujarat coastal plains, while Konkan is specifically the Daman-to-Goa strip.
- (C) Goa to Kerala shifts south of Konkan; NIOS identifies Goa to Mangalore as the Karnataka coast and the further stretch to Kanyakumari as the Malabar coast.
- (D) The Tamil Nadu coast belongs to the eastern coastal plain, commonly associated with the Coromandel section, not the Konkan coast on India's west.
Concept
This tests the regional division of India's coastal plains, especially the west-coast sequence of Gujarat/Kathiawar, Konkan, Karnataka/Kanara and Malabar. RAS repeats this because coastal nomenclature is a compact way to test map awareness and physical-geography classification.