The River System of India

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The river system of India can beclassified into four groups,
1. Himalayan rivers
2. Deccan (Peninsular) rivers
3. Coastal rivers and
4. Rivers of inland water drainage.
-> Most of the Indian rivers flow into the Bay of Bengal but some like Narmada,Tapti and Periyar flowinto the Arabian Sea.
-> 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.
-> Five rivers of erstwhile Punjabare Sutlej, Ravi, Beas, Jhelum and Chenab.
-> The river also known as DakshinGanga is Godavari.
-> The Brahmaputra is known as Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet and as Dihang in Arunachal Pradesh. The Brahmaputra river is known as Jomuna in Bangladesh.
-> The river known as Singi Khamban(Lion's mouth) in Tibet is River Indus.
-> The river known as Bengal’ssorrow is River Damodar. 

-> Prayag or Allahabad is believedto be the confluence (sangam) of these rivers Ganga, Yamuna and themythical Saraswati.
-> 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 flowsinto Bangladesh is known as Padma.
-> The number of Indian rivers which have been classified as major rivers by the Government is twelve.

-> There are three Trans-Himalayan rivers which originate in the high Tibetan Plateau and cut across the mighty Himalayan ranges. Indus,Brahmaputra, and Sutlej.
-> The largest river flowing through the state of Rajasthan is the Chambal river.
Cities and Rivers 

Indian City
River
Delhi
Yamuna
Agra
Yamuna
Patna
Ganga
Haridwar
Ganga
Allahabad
confluence of Ganga and Yamuna
Varanasi
Ganga
Guwahati
Brahmaputra
Kanpur
Ganga
Jabalpur
Narmada
Bharuch
Narmada
Lucknow
Gomti
Hyderabad
Musi
Nasik
Godavari
Srinagar
Jhelum
Vijayawada
Krishna
Kolkata
Hooghly
Ahmedabad
Sabarmati
Surat
Tapti
Thiruchirapalli
Cauveri
Cuttack
Mahanadi
Ayodhya
Saryu
Ludhiana
Sutlej


Dams and Rivers

Dams
Rivers
Nagarjunasagar
Krishna
Pochampad
Godavari
Srisailam
Krishna
Sardar Sarovar
Narmada
Ukai
Tapti
Hirakud
Mahanadi
Bhakra Nangal
Sutlej
Pong (Maharana Pratap Sagar)
Beas
Thein (Ranjit Sagar)
Ravi
Baglihar
Chenab
Chutak
Suru
Panchet
Damodar
Maithon
Barakar
Tehri
Bhagirathi
Koyna
Koyna
Mettur
Kaveri
Krishnaraja Sagar
Kaveri
Alamatti
Krishna
Mullaperiyar
Periyar
Gandhisagar
Chambal
Nimoo Bazgo
Indus

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