List of top Water Science and Technology Questions on Irrigation Engineering asked in ICAR AIEEA (PG)

Find the delta for sugarcane when its duty is 730 hectares/cumec on the field and the base period of the crop being 110 days
Choose the correct answer from the given below terms in decreasing order of irrigation requirement:
A. Consumptive Irrigation Requirement (CIR)
B. Net Irrigation Requirement (NIR)
C. Field Irrigation Requirement (FIR)
D. Gross Irrigation Requirement (GIR)
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R:
Assertion A: The irrigation efficiency in India is only about 35% to 40%.
Reason R: Performance evaluation of irrigation system is useful to examine the efficiency of each component of the system and helps to take necessary measures for improvement in efficiency.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R:
Assertion A: Rice occupies about 40% of the irrigated area in India and mostly grown in clayey soils
Reason R: Kharif crops requires a lot of water to grow and clayey texture of soil has less percolation rate
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R:
Assertion A: The Cipoletti weir is a trapazoidal weir used for the measurement of flow in irrigation channel.
Reason R: It does not require corrections for end contractions and commonly used for high discharge measurement.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
The most commonly used lining material for canals in India is:
The minimum land slope required for irrigation through surface methods is:
Match List I with List II:
List I
A. Water meter
B. Parshall flume
C. Current meter
D. Stilling well
E. Meter gate
List II
I. Measurement of flow in rivers and canals
II. Flow measurement in parshall flumes
III. Measurement of flow in pipes
IV. Flow measurement in open channels
V. Modified submerged orifice
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
The most suitable device for the measurement of flow in irrigation furrow is
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Check basin irrigation is mostly used for cultivation of rice crop in India
Statement II: The size of the check basins in rice fields varies with the size of the irrigation stream and does not depend on the infiltration characteristics of the soil.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
On sloping fields the submain pipe should be laid
Operating pressure for sprinkler head is considered as most practical ranging from
The ratio of crop yield to the amount of water depleted by the crop during ET is called as
The overland flow in an irrigation border strip is a case of
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: For radial flow impellers, brake power (BP) generally increases from a non-zero value to a peak and then declines slightly as discharge (Q) increases from zero.
Statement II: For mixed flow impellers, brake power (BP) increases steadily from a non-zero value as discharge (Q) increases.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
In an area of 100 hectares, maize and wheat crops are grown which can tolerate 8 m mhos conductivity in the drainage water. Yearly consumptive use of crop is 200 cm and yearly rainfall is 100 cm. The conductivity of irrigation water is 2 m mhos. Calculate the water requirement for the year.
A hydraulic ram operates at a drive head of 3 m and a delivery head of 20 m. The flow through the drive pipe is 0.6 $\text{m}^3\text{/min}$ and the discharge at the outlet of the delivery pipe is 0.07 $\text{m}^3\text{/min}$. Compute the efficiency of the ram adopting Rankine's formula.
Match List I with List II

List I (Pump) & List II (Pumps Characteristics)
A. Specific speed & I. Large discharge
B. Axial flow impellers & II. Small discharge
C. Radial flow impellers & III. Vapour filled cavities
D. Cavitation & IV. Dimensional analysis
E. Shape of head discharge curve & V. Performance curve

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Match List I with List II

List I (Water lifting devices) & List II (Water lifting devices Situations)
A. Persian wheel & I. Unlined wells
B. Denkli & II. Lined wells
C. Churus & III. Depth of well is 12 to 20 m
D. Centrifugal pump & IV. Positive displacement pump
E. Hand Pump & V. Discharge varies directly as speed

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Hydraulic Ram is a water lifting device that uses the
Given below are two statements
Statement I: Subsurface drainage increases the moisture available to the plants, because the root zone is deepened.
Statement II: Subsurface drainage decreases the volume of soil from which roots can take food.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
In warabandi system the time allotted for unit area in paddy of 10 hectare, sugarcane 10 ha and 8 hectrae of maize will be
In case of prismoidal rule of determining the capacity of pond followings are used
A. The number of contours should be odd
B. The number of contour intervals should be odd
C. The number of contours should be even
D. The number of contour intervals should be even
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
The largest number of major irrigation projects completed before the commencement of 5 years plan
Which of the following are the major diversion works completed during the period 1836 to 1866?
A. Upper Ganga Canal
B. Mutha Canal
C. Upper Bari-Doab Canal
D. Krishna Delta
Choose the correct answer from the options given below