{"id":2558,"date":"2023-02-02T03:11:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T21:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2025-03-25T22:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:02:12","slug":"what-is-the-upper-bhadra-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-upper-bhadra-project\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Upper Bhadra Project?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Upper Bhadra Project:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a major <strong>lift irrigation Scheme<\/strong> under implementation in the <strong>central region of Karnataka State.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Objectives<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>To provide sustainable <strong>irrigation facility in khariff season.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It also proposes to <strong>recharge ground water tables<\/strong> and <strong>provide drinking water<\/strong> by filling 367 tanks with six tmcft water <strong>in drought-prone taluks.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plan<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<li>It is planned to <strong>irrigate an extent of 2,25,515 hectares by micro irrigation<\/strong> in <strong>drought-prone districts<\/strong> of Chikkamagalur, Chitradurga, Tumkur and Davangere.<\/li>\n<li>It envisages <strong>lifting upto17.40 TMC of water<\/strong> in first stage <strong>from Tunga river to existing Bhadra reservoir<\/strong> and lifting 29.90 TMC of water in second stage <strong>from Bhadra reservoir<\/strong> to Tunnel near Ajjampura, in Tungabhadra sub-basin of Krishna basin.<\/li>\n<li>In 2022, Central government gave <strong>national project status<\/strong> to \u201cUpper Bhadra Project\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Tungabhadra River:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a sacred river in southern India that <strong>flows through<\/strong> the states of <strong>Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telengana.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>ancient name<\/strong> of the river was <strong>Pampa<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is formed by the <strong>confluence of two rivers, the Tunga <\/strong>River and the <strong>Bhadra<\/strong> River.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin<\/strong>: Both Tunga &amp; Bhadra Rivers are originated on the <strong>eastern slops of the Western Ghats.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tungabhadra River <strong>flows in east, joins Krishna River<\/strong> and then <strong>drains into Bay of Bengal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sangameshwaram Temple<\/strong> is located at <strong>the confluence of the Tungabhadra and Krishna<\/strong> rivers.<\/li>\n<li>The Historic city <strong>&#8216;Hampi&#8217;<\/strong> is located <strong>on the banks<\/strong> of the Tungabhadra River.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Major Tributaries<\/strong>: <strong>Tunga<\/strong>, <strong>Kumudvati<\/strong>, Varada, <strong>Bhadra<\/strong>, Vedavathi, and <strong>Handri<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Which are the major tributaries of Krishna River?<\/h3>\n<p>The principal tributaries joining Krishna are the Ghataprabha, the Malaprabha, the Bhima, the Tungabhadra and the Musi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/budget\/budget-2023-fm-sitharaman-announces-5300-crore-grant-for-upper-bhadra-irrigation-project-in-poll-bound-karnataka\/article66457525.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Budget 2023 | FM Sitharaman announces \u20b95300 crore grant for Upper Bhadra Irrigation Project in poll-bound Karnataka<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upper Bhadra Project is a lift irrigation Scheme in the central region of Karnataka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2558","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\/2558","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=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}