{"id":121456,"date":"2026-08-28T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=121456"},"modified":"2026-08-28T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:13:42","slug":"buckingham-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/buckingham-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckingham Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Buckingham Canal Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The restoration of the Buckingham Canal yet again occupied the attention of the authorities after the new government came into power in Tamil Nadu.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Buckingham Canal<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It runs along <\/span><b>the east coast of India <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for about 450 km (250 km in <\/span><b>Andhra Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and 200 km in <\/span><b>Tamil Nadu).<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Together with the <\/span><b>Krishna and Godavari irrigation canal systems<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it was once a continuous, navigable stretch of about 650 km.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Economic lifeline:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It was once the <\/span><b>only main route by which bulky commodities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, such as fuel, salt, and dried fish, could be profitably brought to the city of Madras (now Chennai) in Tamil Nadu state.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Historical Background<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was originally <\/span><b>constructed in 1806 by Basil Cochrane<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and privately owned and operated by him; the waterway was then called Cochrane Canal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was taken over by <\/span><b>the government in 1837<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and named it as <\/span><b>East Coast Canal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and extended in 1857 to Dugarajapatnam (in Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>In 1878<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it <\/span><b>acquired the present name<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> after the Governor of Madras, <\/span><b>the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Issues: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is faced with encroachment and <\/span><b>severe pollution<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> woes with untreated sewage and solid waste.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/buckingham-canal-back-in-the-limelight\/article71387307.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buckingham Canal runs along the east coast of India for about 450 km (250 km in Andhra Pradesh and 200 km in Tamil Nadu). Read more about Buckingham Canal, Location, Length, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":121496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9849],"class_list":["post-121456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-buckingham-canal","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121456"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121492,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121456\/revisions\/121492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}