{"id":17224,"date":"2026-05-05T13:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17224"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:11:41","slug":"narmada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/narmada\/","title":{"rendered":"Narmada River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Narmada River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At least nine people were killed recently after a cruise boat carrying around 30 people on board sank in Narmada River&#8217;s Bargi dam area of Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Narmada River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the<\/span><b> largest west-flowing river in peninsular India.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of the major rivers of peninsular India, only the Narmada, the Tapti, and the Mahirun from east to west.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has long been an important <\/span><b>route between the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/arabian-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arabian Sea<\/a> and the Ganges (Ganga) River valley.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Narmada was <\/span><b>called Namade <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the <\/span><b>2nd-century-ce Greek geographer Ptolemy.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Course<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>origin <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the river is a <\/span><b>tiny reservoir named Narmada Kund<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is situated on the <\/span><b>Amarkantak Hill in East Madhya Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at an elevation of 1,057 m on the<\/span><b> border with Chhattisgarh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river <\/span><b>flows through Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Gujarat between Vindhya and Satpura hill <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ranges before <\/span><b>falling into the Gulf of Cambay <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the <\/span><b>Arabian Sea <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">about 10 km north of Bharuch, <\/span><b>Gujarat<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Length<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The total length of the river is <\/span><b>1312 kilometres <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(815 miles). It is the <\/span><b>fifth <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/longest-rivers-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\">longest river of India<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Narmada flows through the <\/span><b>Hoshangabad plains,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>Dhar upland<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>Mahishmati plains<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the <\/span><b>gorges at Mandhata and Murakta.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>basin <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is <\/span><b>bounded<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the north by the <\/span><b>Vindhyas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, on the east by the <\/span><b>Maikala range, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on the south by the <\/span><b>Satpuras<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and on the west by the<\/span><b> Arabian Sea.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Tropic of Cancer crosses the Narmada basin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the upper plains area, and a major part of the basin lies just below this line.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is one of the rivers that <\/span><b>flow in a rift valley <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and acts as a <\/span><b>divider between north India and south India.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These <\/span><b>rift valleys<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are the<\/span><b> result of the faulting t<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hat took place when the <\/span><b>northern flank of the Peninsula suffered subsidence.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river has <\/span><b>numerous waterfalls<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, notably the <\/span><b>Dhuandhar Falls, southwest of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Tributaries:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main tributaries of Narmada River are, namely,<\/span><b> Hallon River, Banjar River, Barna River, and Tawa River.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Tawa River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the <\/span><b>longest <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tributary of the Narmada River.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are also <\/span><b>numerous pilgrimage spots <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on the banks of the river, the most important among them are <\/span><b>Mahewswar and Omkareshwar temples.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are several dams along the course of the river, including major hydroelectric projects, such as the<\/span><b> Sardar Sarovar Dam, the Indira Sagar Dam, the Omkareshwar Dam, the Bargi Dam, and the Maheshwar Dam.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicworld.com\/india\/4-tourists-killed-as-cruise-boat-sinks-in-narmada-river-in-jabalpur-rescue-operations-underway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RW<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narmada River is India\u2019s largest west-flowing river, rising at Amarkantak and flowing 1312 km to the Arabian Sea. 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