{"id":59843,"date":"2026-10-31T12:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T07:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=59843"},"modified":"2026-10-31T16:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:24:25","slug":"ravi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ravi-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravi River Water Levels Rise After Heavy Rainfall in Himachal Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Ravi River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers from IIT Gandhinagar monitored three decades of river discharge data and satellite imagery to examine changes in the Ravi River and its floodplain before and after the Ranjit Sagar reservoir began operating in 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Ravi River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>transboundary river<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that flows through <\/span><b>northwestern India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>northeastern Pakistan.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is one of the five <\/span><b>tributaries of the Indus River <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that <\/span><b>give Punjab<\/b> <b>(meaning \u201cFive Rivers\u201d) its name.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was originally known as <\/span><b>Iravati and Parushni\/Purushni in Vedic times<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and later called <\/span><b>Hydraotes by the Ancient Greeks.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Course<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>originates <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from the <\/span><b>northern face of Rohtang Pass<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><b>Himachal Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and flows through the junction formed by the <\/span><b>BaraBang-Dhauladhar range<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Himalayas as two channels, namely Budhil and Tantgari.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After joining, it flows through Himachal Pradesh, mainly the Chamba district, where it receives many tributaries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From there, it <\/span><b>flows southwards<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through India, <\/span><b>crossing through Punjab before crossing into Pakistan, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">where it finally <\/span><b>merges with the Chenab<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> River, a major tributary of the Indus River.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river has a<\/span><b> total length<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of <\/span><b>720 km,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of which<\/span><b> 320 km are in India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and 400 km are in Pakistan.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Often called <\/span><b>\u201cThe River of Lahore,\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the historical city of Lahore, Pakistan, sits on its eastern bank.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hydrology is controlled by <\/span><b>spring snowmelt<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>South Asian monsoon<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that brings heavy rains from June to September.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Major Tributaries:\u00a0 Siul, Baira,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Ujh <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rivers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Major Dams:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Thein Dam (Ranjit Sagar Dam) \u2013 Chamba, Himachal Pradesh<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Chamera Dam \u2013 Chamba, Himachal Pradesh<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Shahpurkandi Dam \u2013 Pathankot, Punjab<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Ujh Dam <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 <\/span><b>Kathua, Jammu &amp; Kashmir<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ravi-Beas Link (Proposed)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upper Bari Doab Canal\u2013Irrigation canal system in Punjab<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/indus-water-treaty\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Indus Water Treaty of 1960 <\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">between India and Pakistan <\/span><b>allocated<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>Ravi River, along with the Beas and Sutlej rivers, to India.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1149916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>EUR<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rainfall in the Himalayan regions led to a significant rise in Ravi River water levels in August 2025. One of the five major rivers of Punjab, the Ravi originates in Himachal Pradesh and flows through Punjab into Pakistan before joining the Chenab River. The 720-km-long river supports irrigation and hydropower and is allocated to India under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":59856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,2235,22,23],"class_list":["post-59843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-ravi-river","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59843","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131406,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59843\/revisions\/131406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}