{"id":16871,"date":"2025-12-23T11:27:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16871"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:33:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:03:47","slug":"bhima-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bhima-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhima River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Bhima River<\/b> <b>Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Karnataka government urged the central government\u2019s intervention over Maharashtra\u2019s excess use of Bhima river water.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Bhima River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a perennial river and the largest <\/span><b>tributary of the Krishna River.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Origin:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It originates near Bhimashankar Temple in the Bhimashankar hills in the Western Ghats.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It flows through the states of <\/span><b>Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Telangana.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Confluence:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It merges into the Krishna River in <\/span><b>Karnataka\u2019s Raichur district.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Drainage Area:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Bhima drainage area is defined by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/western-ghats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Western Ghats<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (west), the <\/span><b>Balaghat Range<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (north), and <\/span><b>the Mahadeo Hills<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (south).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The total basin area of the river is 48,631 sq.km., out of which <\/span><b>75 percent lie<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the state of <\/span><b>Maharashtra.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It runs in a well-entrenched valley, and its banks are heavily populated.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Major Tributaries of Bhima River<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Right Bank:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Indrayani River, Mula River, Mutha River and Pavana River.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Left Bank: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sina and Nira etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Spiritual Significance: Pandharpur<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an important pilgrimage centre <\/span><b>located on the right bank<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Bhima River.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/hubballi\/ktaka-urges-centres-intervention-over-mahas-excess-use-of-bhima-river-water\/articleshow\/126107891.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <strong>TOI<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhima River  is a perennial river and the largest tributary of the Krishna River. Read more about Bhima River, Origin, Confluence, Major Tributaries, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":65652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2967,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-16871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-bhima-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\/16871","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=16871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}