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2021-09-21 16:30:03 ︎PLACES IN NEWS - 22

■ SARDAR SAROVAR DAM

□ WHY IN NEWS ?

The Sardar Sarovar Dam is providing irrigation water in summer for the first time in history.

□ ABOUT :-

◇ The Sardar Sarovar Narmada Dam is a terminal dam built on the Narmada river at Kevadia in Gujarat’s Narmada district.

◇ Four Indian states, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, receive water and electricity supply from the dam.

◇ The foundation stone of the project was laid out by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on 5 April 1961.

◇ The project took form in 1979 as part of a development scheme funded by the World Bank through their International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, to increase irrigation and produce hydroelectricity
Called the ‘lifeline of Gujarat’, it usually has no water for irrigation during summers.

︎ SOURCE - IE.

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2021-09-21 14:30:10 #MAINS_2022_TEST_SERIES

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2021-09-20 15:31:02 ︎PLACES IN NEWS - 21

■ SAHEL REGION


□ WHY IN NEWS ?

The massacre of at least 160 people in a border village in Burkina Faso over the weekend is a reminder of the threat the Sahel region faces from terrorism.

□ ABOUT :-

◇ Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic realm of transition in Africa between the Sahara in north and the Sudanian savanna in south.

◇ Having a semi-arid climate, stretches across the south-central latitudes of Northern Africa between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea.

◇ The name is derived from the Arabic term for “coast, shore”.

◇ The Sahel part includes from west to east parts of northern Senegal, southern Mauritania, central Mali, northern Burkina Faso, the extreme south of Algeria, Niger, the extreme north of Nigeria, the extreme north of Cameroon and the Central African Republic, central Chad, central and southern Sudan, the extreme north of South Sudan, Eritrea and the extreme north of Ethiopia.

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2021-09-20 14:30:07 #MAINS_2022_TEST_SERIES

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2021-09-19 16:30:09 ︎PLACES IN NEWS - 21

■ SAHEL REGION


□ WHY IN NEWS ?

The massacre of at least 160 people in a border village in Burkina Faso over the weekend is a reminder of the threat the Sahel region faces from terrorism.

□ ABOUT :-

◇ Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic realm of transition in Africa between the Sahara in north and the Sudanian savanna in south.

◇ Having a semi-arid climate, stretches across the south-central latitudes of Northern Africa between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea.

◇ The name is derived from the Arabic term for “coast, shore”.

◇ The Sahel part includes from west to east parts of northern Senegal, southern Mauritania, central Mali, northern Burkina Faso, the extreme south of Algeria, Niger, the extreme north of Nigeria, the extreme north of Cameroon and the Central African Republic, central Chad, central and southern Sudan, the extreme north of South Sudan, Eritrea and the extreme north of Ethiopia.

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2021-09-17 16:40:05 ︎PLACES IN NEWS - 20

■ POBITORA WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

#Conservation

□ WHY IN NEWS ?

◇ Pobitora is running a successful Rhino breeding program within its sanctuary.

◇ It is running under the government as “Indian Rhino vision 2020”.

□ ABOUT :-

◇ Pobitora WLS is located on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra in Morigaon district in Assam.

◇ It was declared in 1987 and covers 38.85 km2 (15.00 sq mi), providing grassland and wetland habitat for the Indian rhinoceros.

◇ It provides a habitat and food resource for the Indian rhinoceros, hosting Assam’s second-largest population.

◇ Other mammals occurring in the sanctuary are golden jackal, wild boar and feral water buffalo.

◇ Barking deer, Indian leopard and rhesus macaque live foremost in the hilly parts.

◇ It is an Important Bird Area and home for more than 2000 migratory birds and various reptiles.

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