{"id":1702,"date":"2025-01-04T11:40:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T06:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2025-01-12T16:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T10:42:50","slug":"key-facts-about-gomti-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-gomti-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Gomti River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Gomti River:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>tributary of the Ganges<\/strong> (Ganga) River, <strong>flowing entirely through<\/strong> the state <strong>of Uttar Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Course<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The Gomti River <strong>originates from the Gomat Taal<\/strong>, otherwise called <strong>Fulhaar Jheel,<\/strong> which is found near the Madho Tanda in the <strong>Pilibhit district in Uttar Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The river <strong>drains the area betweenriver Ramganga and Sharda.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>After <strong>flowing southwards through<\/strong> the districts of <strong>Lucknow, Barabhanki, Sultanpur, Faizabad, and Jaunpur<\/strong>, it <strong>joins with the River Ganga.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The river extends to about <strong>900 km.<\/strong> It drains a basin of about 7,240 square miles (18,750 square km).<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>perennial river<\/strong>. The river is characterised by sluggish flow throughout the year, except during the monsoon season, when heavy rainfall causes a manifold increase in the runoff.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significant tributaries<\/strong> of the Gomti include the <strong>Sai River, Chowka River, Kathina River, and Saryu River.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: Which are the main tributaries of the Ganges (Ganga) River?<\/h3>\n<p>Tributaries of Ganga include Ramganga, Gomti, Ghaghara, Gandak, Kosi and Mahananda from the left bank and Yamuna, Tamsa, Son and Punpun from the right bank.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/territorial-army-launches-task-force-for-gomti-river-rejuvenation-2658382-2025-01-02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Territorial Army recently established a new task force dedicated to the rejuvenation and protection of the Gomti River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,65,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-1702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-gomti-river","9":"tag-prelims-articles","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\/1702","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}