{"id":49386,"date":"2025-06-05T14:38:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49386"},"modified":"2025-06-06T14:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T09:29:36","slug":"kulsi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kulsi-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Kulsi River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Kulsi River Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Ignoring warnings by environmentalists, the Assam and Meghalaya governments have decided to jointly set up a 55 MW hydropower project on the Kulsi, a small river known as a nesting ground for the endangered river dolphins.<\/p>\n<h2>About Kulsi River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>south-bank tributary of<\/strong>\u00a0the mighty\u00a0<strong>Brahmaputra\u00a0<\/strong>River.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Course<\/strong>:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>It is c<strong>omposed of three rivers,<\/strong>\u00a0namely\u00a0<strong>Khri, Krishniya, and Umsiri,<\/strong>\u00a0all of which\u00a0<strong>originate from the West Khasi hill ranges of Meghalay<\/strong>a from an elevation of over 1800 metres and flow north.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The river is known as Khri in the upper catchments, and after being joined by two other tributaries, namely Krishniya and Umsiri, within the Khasi hills in Meghalaya, it\u00a0<strong>flows northwest and enters Assam<\/strong>\u00a0at Ukium.<\/li>\n<li>After that it flows north upto Kulsi village through the plains of Kamrup District of Assam.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Finally, it\u00a0<strong>outflows into the Brahmaputra\u00a0<\/strong>near Nagarbera.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The river Kulsi drains out a total area of 3770 sq. km. Out of the total catchment, 685 sq. km. is plain catchment in Assam, and 3085 sq. km. is hill catchment in Meghalaya and Assam.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>total length<\/strong>\u00a0of Kulsi from its source to outfall is about\u00a0<strong>220 km<\/strong>, out of which 100 km is in Meghalaya and the rest, 120 km, is in Assam.<\/li>\n<li>It is considered one of the\u00a0<strong>last refuges of the endangered Gangetic dolphin\u00a0<\/strong>(Platanista gangetica gangetica)\u00a0<strong>in Assam.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Kulsi River FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0The Kulsi River is a tributary of which major Indian river?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Brahmaputra<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0The Kulsi River originates from which hill range?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0West Khasi hill ranges of Meghalaya<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the name of the endangered species found in the Kulsi River?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Gangetic dolphin<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/india\/assam\/assam-meghalaya-govts-to-build-hydel-project-on-dolphin-habitat-kulsi-river-3569839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kulsi River is a south-bank tributary of the Brahmaputra River, known for its rich biodiversity and importance to the ecology of Assam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[710,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-kulsi-river","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","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\/49386","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=49386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}