Subarnarekha River

29 Oct 2024 10:12:40 am

Tags : Subarnarekha River

Topic: Rivers

Why in the news?

A large python was rescued from the Subarnarekha River at Jhargram in West Bengal, causing a stir in the area.
Forest department personnel arrived at the scene upon receiving the news and safely relocated the python to a secure place.

Source: The Indian Express

About Subarnarekha River:

It is one of the longest east-flowing interstate rivers.
‘Subarnarekha’ means ‘Streak of Gold.’ The river is known as the storehouse of gold.
It flows through the states of Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Odisha.
Course:
- It rises near Nagri village in the Ranchi District of Jharkhand at an elevation of 600 m.
- It flows east through a copper-mining region and leaves the Chota Nagpur plateau by the Hundrugbagh waterfall.
- Continuing eastward, it flows across West Bengal state.
- It runs through some major industrial towns and cities, i.e., Jamshedpur, Chaibasa, Ranchi, and Bhadrak, before joining the Bay of Bengal at Kirtania port in Odisha.
It flows for a length of 395 km.
The basin is bounded on the north-west by the Chota Nagpur Plateau, in the south-west by the Brahmani basin, in the south by the Burhabalang basin and in the south-east by the Bay of Bengal.
The principal tributaries of the river are Kanchi, Kharkai, and Karkari.

Chota Nagpur Plateau:

It is a plateau in eastern India, in northwestern Chhattisgarh and central Jharkhand states.
It is composed of Precambrian rocks (i.e., rocks more than about 540 million years old).
Chota Nagpur is the collective name for the Ranchi, Hazaribagh, and Kodarma plateaus, which collectively have an area of 65,509 sq. km.
The Chota Nagpur plateau in its entirety lies between the basins of the Ganges (Ganga) and Son rivers to the north and the Mahanadi River to the south.
Through its centre, from west to east, runs the coal-bearing, faulted Damodar River valley.

0 Comments

★ ★ ★ ★ ★