{"id":9190,"date":"2022-10-22T02:09:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T20:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9190"},"modified":"2025-03-29T11:48:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:18:02","slug":"sukapaika-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sukapaika-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Sukapaika River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This is probably the first serious attempt being made to restore a river to its original shape in Odisha.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The problem has started in 1952, when the state government blocked the starting point of the Sukapaika with an embankment to save the villages around it from floods.<\/li>\n<li>Subsequently, in 1957, two major projects \u2014 Hirakud Dam in Sambalpur district and Naraj barrage at Cuttack \u2014 were built upstream on the Mahanadi, ostensibly to control floods in it.<\/li>\n<li>The river dried up due to the development of the Taladanda Canal System, a major canal of the State.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Sukapaika River:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Sukapaika is one of the several distributaries of the mighty Mahanadi river in Odisha.<\/li>\n<li>It branches away from the Mahanadi at Ayatpur village in Cuttack district and flows for about 40 kilometres (km) before rejoining its parent river at Tarapur in the same district.<\/li>\n<li>In the process, it drains a large landmass comprising over 425 villages under 26 gram panchayats in three blocks \u2014 Cuttack Sadar, Nischintakoili and Raghunathpur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/breathing-life-into-a-dead-river-in-odisha\/article66045196.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sukapaika is one of the several distributaries of the mighty Mahanadi river in Odisha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9190","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\/9190","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=9190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}