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Dams and Rivers and Cities and Rivers
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●●Dams and Rivers and Location

1)         Nagarjunasagar— Krishna— A.P

2)         Pochampad—Godavari  —A.P.

3)         Srisailam — Krishna —A.P.

4)         Sardar
Sarovar—Narmada — Gujarat

5)         Ukai—Tapti —Gujarat

6)         Hirakud—Mahanadi —Orissa

7)         Bhakra
Nangal — Sutlej—Punjab

8)         Pong (Maharana
Pratap Sagar)—Beas—Himachal Pradesh

9)         Thein (Ranjit
Sagar)— Ravi— Punjab

10)       Baglihar—Chenab—Jammu & Kashmir

11)       Chutak—Suru—Jammu
& Kashmir

12)       Panchet—Damodar —Jharkhand

13)       Maithon—Barakar— Jharkhand

14)       Tehri—Bhagirathi—Uttarakhand

15)       Koyna—Koyna—Maharashtra

16)       Mettur—Kaveri—Tamilnadu

17)       Krishnaraja
Sagar—Kaveri—Karnataka

18)       Alamatti —Krishna—Karnataka

19)       Mullaperiyar—Periyar—Kerala

20)       Gandhisagar—Chambal—Madhya
Pradesh

21)       Nimoo Bazgo—Indus—Jammu
& Kashmir

●●Cities and Rivers

1)         Delhi—Yamuna

2)         Agra—Yamuna

3)         Patna—Ganga

4)         Haridwar —Ganga

5)         Allahabad —confluence of Ganga and Yamuna

6)         Varanasi — Ganga

7)         Guwahati —Brahmaputra

8)         Kanpur —Ganga

9)         Jabalpur—Narmada

10)       Bharuch — Narmada

11)       Lucknow — Gomti

12)       Hyderabad — Musi

13)       Nasik— Godavari

14)       Srinagar  — Jhelum

15)       Vijayawada — Krishna

16)       Kolkata —Hooghly

17)       Ahmedabad —Sabarmati

18)       Surat — Tapti

19)       Thiruchirapalli—Cauveri

20)       Cuttack  — Mahanadi

21)       Ayodhya —Saryu

22)       Ludhiana—Sutlej

●●Facts to Remember on Rivers

1)         The river
system of India can be classified into four groups – 1. Himalayan rivers 2. Deccan
(Peninsular) rivers 3. Coastal rivers and 4. Rivers of inland water drainage.

2)         Most of the
Indian rivers flow into the Bay of Bengal but some like Narmada, Tapti and
Periyar flow into the Arabian Sea.

3)         Luni, Machhu,
Rupen, Saraswati, Banas and Ghagghar are examples of rivers with inland water
drainage, i.e. they do not empty into the ocean but get lost into the sand.

4)         Five rivers
of erstwhile Punjab are Sutlej, Ravi, Beas, Jhelum and Chenab

5)         The river
also known as Dakshin Ganga is Godavari

6)         The
Brahmaputra is known as Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet and as Dihang in Arunachal
Pradesh. The Brahmaputra river is known as Jomuna in Bangladesh.

7)         The river
known as Singi Khamban (Lion’s mouth) in Tibet River Indus

8)         The river
known as Bengal’s sorrow is River Damodar

9)         Prayag or
Allahabad is believed to be the confluence (sangam) of these rivers Ganga, Yamuna
and the mythical Saraswati

10)       The Ganges is
also known as the Bhagirathi since King Bhagirath was responsible for bringing
it from the heavens to the earth. The Bhagirathi and the Alaknanda join at
Devprayag to form the Ganga. The part of the River Ganga which flows into
Bangladesh is known as Padma.

11)       The number of
Indian rivers which have been classified as major rivers by the Government is
Twelve.

12)       There are
three Trans-Himalayan rivers which originate in the high Tibetan Plateau and
cut across the mighty Himalayan ranges. Indus, Brahmaputra, and Sutlej.