{"id":13690,"date":"2025-08-03T14:55:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T09:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13690"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:03:29","slug":"key-facts-about-mahanadi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-mahanadi-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Mahanadi River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Mahanadi River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a prolonged legal battle over sharing Mahanadi River water in a designated tribunal, Odisha and Chhattisgarh have now expressed willingness to resolve the dispute amicably between themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Mahanadi River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is one of the major <\/span><b>east-flowing peninsular rivers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located in the states of <\/span><b>Chhattisgarh and Odisha.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It ranks <\/span><b>second to the Godavari River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> among the <\/span><b>peninsular rivers in respect of water potential.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Course<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Origin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The river originates from the <\/span><b>Sihawa range of hills <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the Dhamtari district of <\/span><b>Chhattisgarh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It then flows in the eastward direction,<\/span><b> cutting a ravine in the Eastern Ghat.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Before joining the Bay of Bengal at False Point<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through several channels near the major seaport town of Paradip, the river <\/span><b>enters the plains of Odisha near Cuttack and forms a delta.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Length: 860 km\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river is <\/span><b>bounded <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the north by <\/span><b>Central India hills, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the south and east by the <\/span><b>Eastern Ghats,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and in the west by the<\/span><b> Maikal hill range.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mahanadi <\/span><b>basin extends over<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the states of <\/span><b>Chhattisgarh and Odisha<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and comparatively <\/span><b>smaller portions of Jharkhand, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">draining an area of 1,41,589 sq.km., which is nearly<\/span><b> 4.3% <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the total <\/span><b>geographical area of the country.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It passes through several <\/span><b>major cities <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and towns, including <\/span><b>Raipur, Sambalpur,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Cuttack<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is considered to be one of the <\/span><b>most active silt-depositing streams in India.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Tributaries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Its main tributaries are <\/span><b>Seonath<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Jonk, Hasdeo, Mand, Ib, Ong, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Tel<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Hirakud Dam:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hirakud Dam, the <\/span><b>world\u2019s longest earthen dam <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(26 km), is constructed across the Mahanadi River, about 15 km from Sambalpur in Odisha.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dam is used for irrigation, flood control, and power generation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Chilika Lake:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Chilika, named a <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">wetland <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of international importance <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">under the Ramsar Convention,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> gets 61% of its inland flow from the Mahanadi River system, mainly from its distributaries \u2013 Daya and Bhargabi.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/odisha\/odisha-chhattisgarh-express-willingness-to-resolve-mahanadi-water-dispute-amicably\/article69887063.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originating from Sihawa hills, Mahanadi is a key east-flowing river in Chhattisgarh and Odisha with high water potential, next only to the Godavari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":58312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1983,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-13690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-mahanadi-river","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}