{"id":4992,"date":"2023-01-15T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4992"},"modified":"2025-03-27T03:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:08:43","slug":"chanaka-korata-rudha-barrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/chanaka-korata-rudha-barrage\/","title":{"rendered":"Chanaka-Korata (Rudha) Barrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Key Facts about Chanaka-Korata Barrage<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>Telangana-Maharashtra joint project on the Penganga river<\/strong> to irrigate 6,677 hectares of land.<\/li>\n<li>The project envisages the <strong>construction of a barrage across the Penganga river<\/strong> to irrigate an area of 6,677 hectares (5,463 hectares in Telangana and 1,214 hectares in Maharashtra).<\/li>\n<li>The gross command area of the project is <strong>10,442.913 hectares.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Penganga River:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Origin<\/strong>: It <strong>originates in the Ajantha ranges<\/strong> in Aurangabad district in <strong>Maharashtra<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is a major <strong>tributary of the Wardha River<\/strong> (part of <strong>Godavari River basin<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li>The total length of the river is <strong>676 Km.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The river <strong>flows along the State border between Maharashtra &amp; Telangana<\/strong> before converging into Wardha river.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributaries<\/strong>: The main <strong>tributaries of the river are Adan, Kas, Arunavati Kayadhu &amp; Pus.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The famous <strong>Sahastrakund falls<\/strong> on this river.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Which are the major tributaries of Godavari?<\/h3>\n<p>The Pravara, Indravati, Wainganga, Wardha, Pench, Kanhan, Penganga, Manjira, Bindusara and sabari rivers are its important tributaries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/telangana\/inter-state-channakha-korata-barrage-gets-environmental-clearance\/article66374052.ece#:~:text=Decks%20have%20beeen%20cleared%20for,process%20began%20in%20April%202019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong><u>Inter-State Channakha-Korata Barrage gets environmental clearance<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chanaka-Korata Barrage is a Telangana-Maharashtra joint project on the Penganga river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4992","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\/4992","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=4992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}