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Waterfalls of India: asked and not asked.
UPSC has asked 5 of these 28. 0 came more than once. 23 have not come yet. Lock the repeated ones first, then read the rest.
First, the concept
A waterfall forms where a river drops over a hard rock edge, a fault, or the edge of a plateau.
Most big falls of India are on the edges of the Western Ghats, the Chotanagpur plateau and the Vindhyan scarps of Rewa and Mirzapur.
UPPCS asks a waterfall with its river or its state. The falls of Uttar Pradesh come in the UP special questions.
✅ Asked once (5)
Karnataka and Goa
- Jog (Gersoppa) · Sharavati river, Karnataka 2024
- Shivanasamudra · Kaveri river, Karnataka; one of India's first hydro-power stations (1902)
Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh
- Dhuandhar · Narmada river, Bhedaghat near Jabalpur 2024
- Kapildhara · Narmada river, near its source at Amarkantak
Jharkhand, Odisha and Bihar
- Hundru · Subarnarekha river, near Ranchi 2024
❌ Not asked by UPSC yet (23)
Items marked 'asked in UPPCS' have already come in the UP state exam, so examiners do use them.
Karnataka and Goa
- Kunchikal · Varahi river, Karnataka; often called India's highest asked in UPPCS
- Gokak · Ghataprabha river, Karnataka asked in UPPCS
- Dudhsagar · Mandovi river, Goa–Karnataka border asked in UPPCS
Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh
- Athirappilly · Chalakudy river, Kerala
- Hogenakkal · Kaveri river, Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu
- Courtallam (Kutralam) · Chittar river, Tamil Nadu
- Talakona · Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh
- Chachai · Bihad (Beehar) river, Rewa asked in UPPCS
- Keoti · Rewa asked in UPPCS
- Chitrakote · Indravati river, Bastar; called the 'Niagara of India' asked in UPPCS
- Bahuti · Rewa region; the highest waterfall of Madhya Pradesh
- Purwa · Tons river, Rewa
- Tirathgarh · Kanger valley, Bastar
Jharkhand, Odisha and Bihar
- Lodh · Latehar; the highest waterfall of Jharkhand asked in UPPCS
- Barehipani · Similipal, Odisha asked in UPPCS
- Dassam · Kanchi river, near Ranchi
- Jonha (Gautamdhara) · Near Ranchi
- Kakolat · Nawada, Bihar
North and North-East
- Nohkalikai · Near Cherrapunji, Meghalaya; India's tallest plunge waterfall asked in UPPCS
- Nohsngithiang (Seven Sisters) · Near Cherrapunji, Meghalaya
- Elephant Falls · Shillong, Meghalaya
- Kempty · Mussoorie, Uttarakhand
- Vasudhara · Near Badrinath (Mana), Uttarakhand
⚠️ Jog Falls is on the Sharavati, not the Kaveri. Shivanasamudra and Hogenakkal are the Kaveri falls. Chitrakote (Indravati) is in Chhattisgarh; do not mix it with Chitrakoot town in Uttar Pradesh.
'Asked' is checked against the solved UPSC questions on this site. 'Not asked yet' does not mean it will surely come.