{"id":124292,"date":"2026-09-13T12:16:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T06:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=124292"},"modified":"2026-09-13T16:29:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T10:59:03","slug":"hasdeo-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hasdeo-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasdeo River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Hasdeo River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One student drowned, and two others were recently swept away in the Hasdeo River while they were on a picnic in Chhattisgarh\u2019s Janjgir-Champa district.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Hasdeo River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a major <\/span><b>tributary of the Mahanadi <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">River<\/span><b>.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It flows through <\/span><b>Chhattisgarh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> state.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Course:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>originates <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from a <\/span><b>small lake<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> near the Ambikapur town of Surguja district in <\/span><b>Chhattisgarh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river flows through Surguja, Korea, and Bilaspur districts and <\/span><b>empties into the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-mahanadi-river\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mahanadi River <\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">near Akaltara in Janjgir\u2013Champa district.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>course <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is about <\/span><b>333.0 km long. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river flows through lush green forests, deep valleys, hills, and many small villages.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hasdeo basin includes the ecologically important <\/span><b>Hasdeo Arand forest region, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">considered the <\/span><b>largest unfragmented forest landscape in Central India.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Hasdeo Bango Dam:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Hasdeo Bango Reservoir is constructed across the river\u00a0 that plays a vital role in <\/span><b>irrigation and hydroelectric power generation.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Important Tributaries: Gej and Ahiran<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/india\/chhattisgarh-3-students-swept-away-in-hasdeo-river-body-of-one-recovered\/3041142\/?amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>TP<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hasdeo River is a major Mahanadi tributary. Learn about its origin, course through Chhattisgarh and confluence with the Mahanadi near Akaltara. Read more about Hasdeo River, Course, Important Tributaries, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":124313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10220,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-124292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-hasdeo-river","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124292","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124314,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124292\/revisions\/124314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}