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Krishak Setu over the Damodar River, near Bardhaman Damodar River between Dhanbad and Bokaro. So great was the devastation every year that the floods passed into folklore, as the following Bhadu song testifies: We have sown the crops in Asar We will bring Bhadu in Bhadra. Floods have swollen the Damodar The sailing boats cannot sail. O Damodar!
For getting a short term relief from floods, initiatives were taken to construct embankments on both the side of the main channel of Damodar. As a result, left embank detached the river Damodar from the Banka, Balluka, Bahula, Gangur and transformed them into fragmented and degraded wetlands, water bodies, and isolated channels.
The Barakar River is the main tributary of the Damodar River in eastern India.Originating near Padma in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand it flows for 225 kilometres (140 mi) across the northern part of the Chota Nagpur Plateau, mostly in a west to east direction, before joining the Damodar near Dishergarh in Asansol, Bardhaman district of West Bengal.
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The fourth dam across the Damodar at Panchet was inaugurated in 1959. Durgapur Barrage was built in 1955, with a 136.8 kilometres (85.0 mi) long left bank main canal and an 88.5 kilometres (55.0 mi) long right bank main canal. [7] [8] Command area: 24,235 km 2 spread across the Damodar basin. Jharkhand: 2 districts fully (Dhanbad and Bokaro ...
Konar Dam is the second of the four multi-purpose dams included in the first phase of the Damodar Valley Corporation. It was constructed across the Konar River and inaugurated in 1955. [3] Konar Dam is 4,535 metres (14,879 ft) long and 48.77 metres (160.0 ft) high. The reservoir covers an area of 27.92 square kilometres (10.78 sq mi). [4]
DVC is the first-ever multipurpose river valley project of independent India it came into being on July 7, 1948, by an act of Constituent Assembly (Act no. XIV of 1948). The Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) has its command area of approx 24,235 km 2 spreading across the Damodar basin. The upper valley consists of two entire districts (Dhanbad ...