{"id":71643,"date":"2025-11-02T12:58:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=71643"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:27:07","slug":"bhavani-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bhavani-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhavani Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Bhavani Island Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back-to-back floods at the Prakasam Barrage across the Krishna River have become a bane for the tourism department, which has once again been forced to close Bhavani Island and suspend boat operations, severely impacting tourism revenue.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Bhavani Island<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>river island<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> situated<\/span><b> near Vijayawada<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the <\/span><b>Krishna River in Andhra Pradesh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spread over an area of 133 acres, it is <\/span><b>one of the largest river islands in India.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The island has <\/span><b>extensive forest coverage<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, shimmering ponds and rolling meadows.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Initially known more for its natural beauty and abundance of flora and fauna, the island has transformed into a <\/span><b>well-equipped tourist spot.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Key Facts about Krishna River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a river of <\/span><b>south-central India.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>One of India\u2019s longest rivers,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it has a total length of about <\/span><b>1,400 km.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Course<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river <\/span><b>rises <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in western <\/span><b>Maharashtra <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">state in the <\/span><b>Western Ghats <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">range near the town of <\/span><b>Mahabaleshwar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, not far from the coast of the Arabian Sea.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Krishnabai Temple in Mahabaleshwar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is considered to be the <\/span><b>starting point<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Krishna River.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It passes through the Indian states of <\/span><b>Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Andhra Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>meets the Bay of Bengal <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at Hamasaladeevi <\/span><b>in Andhra Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, on the east coast.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Krishna River <\/span><b>Basin <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">extends over an area of about 258,948 sq. km, which is nearly <\/span><b>8 percent of the total geographical area of the country.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has the <\/span><b>second largest river basin in peninsular India (after the Godavari).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is<\/span><b> bounded by <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b>Balaghat range<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the north, by the <\/span><b>Eastern Ghats<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the south and the east, and by the <\/span><b>Western Ghats<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the west.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The principal <\/span><b>tributaries <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">joining Krishna are the <\/span><b>Ghataprabha<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>Malaprabha<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>Bhima<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>Tungabhadra<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the <\/span><b>Musi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">The<b style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> major dams<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the Krishna are the<\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> Lal Bahadur Shastri Dam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (also known as <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Almatti Dam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), the <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Nagarjuna Sagar,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Srisailam Dam, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Dhom Dam, the Narayanpur Dam, and the Jurala Dam.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/vijayawada\/back-to-back-floods-force-closure-of-bhavani-island-rs-1-8-crore-revenue-lost\/articleshow\/125020535.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhavani Island, on the Krishna River near Vijayawada, spans 133 acres with lush forests, ponds, and meadows, offering a serene yet vibrant tourist escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":71816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3513,246,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-71643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-bhavani-island","9":"tag-prelims-current-affairs","10":"tag-prelims-pointers","11":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","12":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","13":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71643","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=71643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}