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List Of Canals In India
This is a list of canals in India. * Agra canal * Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project * Buckingham Canal * Handri-Neeva * K. C. Canal * Conolly Canal * Munak canal * Western Yamuna Canal * Eastern Yamuna Canal * Kutte Kol * Nallah Mar * Tsoont Kol * Buddha Nullah * Indira Gandhi Canal * Sirhind Canal * Sutlej Yamuna link canal * Anupgarh canal * Ganges Canal * Ummed Sagar Bandh * Ainsley canal * Kalingarayan Canal * Kaveri–Vaigai link canal * Lower Bhavani Project Canal * Tamirabarani–Nambiar link canal * Telugu Ganga project * Kakatiya Canal *Zamania Canal *Karmanasa Canal *Deokali Canal *Durgavati Canal * Najafgarh drain * Narmada Canal * Parvathi Puthannaar * Soundane Cut * Thiruvananthapuram–Shoranur canal * Cumbarjua Canal, Goa See also * List of National Waterways in India * List of canals * List of rivers of India {{World topic, List of canals in, noredlinks=yes India Canals * Canals Canals Canals or artificial waterways are waterways o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agra Canal
The Agra Canal is an important Indian irrigation work which starts from Okhla in Delhi. The Agra canal originates at the Okhla barrage, downstream of Nizamuddin bridge. The canal receives its water from the Yamuna River at Okhla, about to the south of New Delhi. The weir across the Yamuna was constructed of locally quarried stone. It was about long, and rises seven feet above the summer level of the river. From Okhla the canal follows a route south then southeast for in the high land between the Khari-Nadi and the Yamuna and finally joins the Utanga River about below Agra. Navigable branches connect the canal with Mathura and Agra.. The canal irrigates about in Agra, and Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, Faridabad in Haryana, Bharatpur in Rajasthan and also some parts of Delhi. History The canal opened in the year 1874. In the beginning, it was available for navigation, in Delhi, erstwhile Gurgaon, Mathura and Agra Districts, and Bharatpur State. Later, navigation was stopped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ummed Sagar Bandh
Ummed Sagar Bandh is a dam near Jodhpur in Rajasthan, India. It is located near Kaylana Lake. The dam supplies water to Jodhpur. It was built during the reign of Maharaja Ummed Singh, in the year 1936. List of lakes in India *List of lakes in India This is a list of notable lakes in India. Andhra Pradesh * Kolleru Lake * Kondakarla Ava * Kaniairi Lake * Cumbum * Pulicat Lake Assam * Dora Beel * Urpad Beel *Samaguri Beel * Morikalang Beel * Haflong L ... References Canals in Rajasthan Jodhpur district Dams completed in 1936 1936 establishments in India 20th-century architecture in India {{India-dam-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narmada Canal
The Narmada Canal is a contour canal in Western India that brings water from the Sardar Sarovar Dam to the state of Gujarat and then into Rajasthan state. The main canal has a length of ( in Gujarat and then in Rajasthan). It is the second longest canal in India (after the Indira Gandhi Canal) and the largest canal by water carrying capacity (40,000 cusec at source). The main canal is connected with 42 branch canals providing irrigation to farmland (about 18 lakh hectares in Gujarat and 2.5 lakh hectares in Rajasthan). The canal is designed to transfer 9.5 Acre-foot, Million acre-feet (MAF) (approx. 11.7 Cubic metre, Billion cubic metre (BCM)) water annually from the Narmada River, Narmada Basin to areas under other river basins in Gujarat and Rajasthan. (9 MAF for Gujarat and 0.5 MAF for Rajasthan). Soon after the completion of the construction project, the Narmada canal was inaugurated on 24 April 2008. It has carrying capacity of 40,000 cubic foot per second (cfs or cusec) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najafgarh Drain
The Najafgarh drain or Najafgarh nalah (''nalah'' in Hindi means rivulet or storm water drain), which also acts as Najafgarh drain bird sanctuary, is another name for the northernmost end of River Sahibi, which continues its flow through Delhi, where it is channelized, and then flows into the Yamuna. Within Delhi, due to its channelization for flood control purposes, it is now erroneously called "Najafgarh drain" or "Najafgarh nullah." It gets this name from the once famous and huge Najafgarh Jheel (lake) near the town of Najafgarh in southwest Delhi and within urbanized Delhi. It is the Indian capital’s most polluted water body due to direct inflow of untreated sewage from surrounding populated areas. A January 2005 report by the Central Pollution Control Board classifies this drain, with 13 other highly polluted wetlands, under category ‘‘D’’ for assessing the water quality of wetlands in wildlife habitats. This drain was widened as a flood control drain linking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durgavati Canal
Durgavati Canal also known as Kudra Wier Canal or Kudra Project Canal, is a canal located in Kaimur District of Bihar, India. During the British Raj, after Punjab and Agra and Uttarakhand, the government focused on the regions of Buxar, Ghazipur, and Kaimur, which grew the most crops in Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh. The British and Indian governments built many canals in the 1870s-1950s to increase the irrigation of these regions, especially the parganas of Kamsar, Zamania, Sherpur, Ramgarh, Durgawati, Chainpur, Bhabua, Kudra, Kochas, Buxar and Chausa. In these regions mostly Kamsaar Raj and later Chainpur estate and Jagdishpur estate existed. These places also (excluding Buxar) made up the pargana of the Nawab of Ghazipur. These regions had 20 rivers, so irrigation was easy and many canals and tributaries were built to support and improve agriculture there. Description The project comprises an earthen dam on the River Durgawati ( Karmanasha basin), joining Shergarh Hills on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deokali Canal
Deokali Canal is one of the largest canals located in Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ..., India. The canal is almost long. It has an average width of . The cost of making the canal was 2.9 carore in 1978. References Canals in Andhra Pradesh {{India-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karmanasa Canal
Karmanasa Canal is a Canal located in Kaimur District of Bihar, India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so .... It arises from Kohira River in Chainpur tehsil and ends in Ramgarh Tehsil of Kaimur at Durgawati River. The Karmanasa Canal also have so many Minors arising from it. Its average width is 80ft. References Canals in India Transport in Bihar Irrigation in India {{Bihar-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zamania Canal
Zamania Canal (also known as Chaudhari Caharan Singh Zamania Canal) is one of the largest canals located in Ghazipur District. The idea for the canal was given in 1910 and the plan was passed in 1911, but the canal was established in year 1912 for the better irrigation of Zamania tehsil. It starts from Chakkah Bandh and ends on the banks of Karmanasa River near Bara Village of Seorai Teshsil. It irrigates about 61,863 acres of land in Zamania tehsil. Its average width is 110 ft. It was built as Zamania Canal but was renamed in 1984, after the death of Chaudhari Charan Singh. It passes through the towns of Zamania, Dildarnagar, Seorai and the Parganas of Kamsar, Seorai, Reotipur and Zamania. Zamania Canal also has other Canals like Phooli Canal (length 17.5km) built in 1932, Dewaitha Destributary (length 15 Km) which was built in 1922, and Paras Dih Minor (length 59 Km) which is now in Chandauli District. Paras Dih Minor ends in Latif Shah Dam. Paras Dih Minor was constru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kakatiya Canal
Kakatiya Canal is a major canal in the Telangana State in India. Its full name is SRSP Kakatiya Canal as the canal originates from the Sriram Sagar dam. It feeds North Telangana by passing through the region for irrigation and as well as drinking water for major cities. Kakatiya Canal is about 284 km long with 9,700 cusecs flow capacity and passing through Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Warangal and Khammam Districts. This canal is an inter river basin transfer link by feeding Godavari River water to Krishna river basin in Warangal and Khammam districts. 4 Units of 9 MW each to generate 36 MW have also been set up to harness the water head before feeding water into the canal. See also * Sriram Sagar Project * SRSP Flood Flow Canal * Pranahita Chevella The Pranahita Chevella Lift Irrigation Project is a lift irrigation project to harness the water of Pranhita tributary of Godavari river for use in the Telangana state of India. The river water diversion barrage across the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telugu Ganga Project
The Telugu Ganga project is a joint water supply scheme implemented in 1980s by the then Andhra Pradesh chief minister N.T.Ramarao and Tamilnadu Chief minister M. G. Ramachandran to provide drinking water to Chennai city in Tamil Nadu. It is also known as the Krishna Water Supply Project, since the source of the water is the Krishna river in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh. Water is drawn from the Srisailam reservoir and diverted towards Chennai through a series of inter-linked canals, over a distance of about , before it reaches the destination at the Poondi reservoir near Chennai. The main checkpoints en route include the Somasila reservoir in Penna River valley, the Kandaleru reservoir, the 'Zero Point' near Uthukkottai where the water enters Tamil Nadu territory and finally, the Poondi reservoir, also known as Satyamurthy Sagar. From Poondi, water is distributed through a system of link-canals to other storage reservoirs located at Red Hills, Sholavaram and Chembarambakkam. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Bhavani Project Canal
Lower Bhavani Project Canal is a long irrigation canal which runs in Erode district in Tamil Nadu, India. The canal is a valley-side contour canal, fed by Bhavanisagar Dam and irrigates 2.07 lakh hectares of land.Breach in LBP Canal plugged 'The Hindu'' (Tamil Nadu), 27 Nov 2008 /ref> The main canal feeds Thadapalli and Arakkankottai channels which irrigate the cultivable lands. The canal was the brainchild M.A Eswaran, member of the legislative assembly of the Erode constituency in the early 1950s. References See also * |
