{"id":31582,"date":"2025-03-30T04:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T23:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31582"},"modified":"2025-04-16T13:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:36:51","slug":"ulhas-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ulhas-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulhas River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ulhas River Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Taking serious note of citizen activists&#8217; protests against pollution in the Ulhas River, the Maharashtra state government during a special meeting recently, decided to remove water hyacinth from the Ulhas River within the next 15 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Ulhas River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is one of the <strong>west flowing Rivers in Maharashtra falling into the Arabian Sea.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It<strong> rises from the Sahyadri hill ranges<\/strong> in the Raigad district of Maharashtra at an elevation of 600 meters above M.S.L.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The total length of this west-flowing river from its origin to its outfall into the Arabian Sea is <strong>122 km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>boundary of the basin <\/strong>consists of the main <strong>Sahyadri hillson the east<\/strong>, westerly offshoots on the north and south and on the west, a narrow opening at the end leading to the sea.<\/li>\n<li>The Ulhas drains an area of 4,637 sq km, which <strong>lies completely in Maharashtra<\/strong>. The <strong>Thane, Raigad, and Pune districts<\/strong> fall in the basin.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributaries<\/strong>: The important tributaries of the Ulhas River are <strong>Pej, Barvi, Bhivapuri,<\/strong> Murbari, <strong>Kalu, Shari, Bhasta,<\/strong> Salpe, Poshir, and Shilar.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Kalu and Bhasta<\/strong> are the major right bank tributaries, which together account for <strong>55.7% of the total catchment<\/strong> area of Ulhas.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>estuary of Ulhas<\/strong> houses several <strong>historical ports of Kalyan, Kopri, and Shurparaka.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ulhas River FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Where does the Ulhas River originate?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Sahyadri hill ranges<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the total length of the Ulhas River?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. 122 km<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which sea does the Ulhas River drain into?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Arabian Sea<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/mumbai\/govt-to-remove-water-hyacinth-to-check-ulhas-river-pollution\/articleshow\/119724511.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ulhas River is one of the west flowing Rivers in Maharashtra falling into the Arabian Sea. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31582","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\/31582","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=31582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}