{"id":24892,"date":"2025-03-07T01:31:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24892"},"modified":"2025-04-07T13:58:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T08:28:21","slug":"panchagnaga-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/panchagnaga-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Panchagnaga River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Panchaganga River Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Maharashtra govt recently appointed a panel to investigate the causes of pollution in Panchaganga river.<\/p>\n<h2>About Panchaganga River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a major <strong>tributary of the Krishna<\/strong> River, flowing through <strong>Maharashtra<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Course<\/strong>:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>It <strong>originates from Prayag Sangam <\/strong>in the <strong>Sahyadri <\/strong>mountain ranges.<\/li>\n<li>The birthplace of this river is called Chikhlee Taluka, a small village in the district of Kolhapur, Maharashtra.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>formed by the confluence of five rivers\u2014Kasari, Kumbhi, Tulsi, Bhogawati, and Saraswati.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>From there, the river flows approximately <strong>80 km<\/strong> before eventually <strong>joining the Krishna River in Maharashtra.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Panchganga River holds immense <strong>spiritual significance. <\/strong>The banks of the river are adorned with numerous temples and shrines.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>valley <\/strong>of the Panchaganga River<strong> is very fertile, <\/strong>and its<strong> sloping banks<\/strong> yield rich crops during the winter season.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>waters <\/strong>of all the streams which join to form the Panchaganga are <strong>much used for growing sugarcane.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Since the last decade, its <strong>pollution level has been increasing fast.<\/strong> The pollution of the Panchaganga River is <strong>due to the disposal of untreated municipal sewage from<\/strong> the <strong>Kolhapur town.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Panchaganga River FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Where is the birthplace of Panchaganga river?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It originates from Prayag Sangam in the Sahyadri mountain ranges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Panchganga River is a tributary of which river?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is a major tributary of the Krishna River.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Panchganga River is formed by the confluence of which all rivers?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is formed by the confluence of five rivers\u2014Kasari, Kumbhi, Tulsi, Bhogawati, and Saraswati.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolhapur\/maha-appoints-panel-to-probe-pollution-in-panchaganga-river\/articleshow\/118742994.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Panchaganga River, a key tributary of the Krishna River, flows through Maharashtra, supporting agriculture and local ecosystems with its vital water resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24892","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=24892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}