Question

At which of the following places does river Ganga bifurcate to form its distributary called Bhagirathi-Hooghly?
1. Bardhaman
2. Farakka
3. Nadia
4. Asansol

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Farakka

The Correct Answer is "Farakka".

• The Bhagirathi-Hooghly, at the start and in nearby tongues the 'Ganga', and additionally called Kati-Ganga, is an about 260-kilometer-lengthy distributary of the Ganges River in West Bengal, India.
• The Ganges splits into the Padma and the Hooghly close to Giria, Murshidabad.
• There's a similarly man-made bifurcation of the river upstream at Farakka.
• The Padma flows eastward into Bangladesh, while the Hooghly flows south thru West Bengal.
• The river flows thru the Rarh region, the decrease deltaic districts of West Bengal, and sooner or later into the Bay of Bengal.
• The higher riparian region of the river is called Bhagirathi even as the decrease riparian region is called Hooghly. 
• The tremendous majority of the water that flows into the Hooghly River is furnished through the man-made Farakka Feeder Canal, in preference to the herbal supply of the river at Giria.
• The Farakka Barrage is a dam that diverts water from the Ganges into the Farakka Feeder Canal close to the city of Tildanga withinside the Murshidabad district.

 

• In 1974, the Farakka Barrage started out diverting water into the Hooghly for the duration of the dry season on the way to lessen the silting problems at Kolkata's port.
• The Farakka Barrage Project, built-in 1975, has a 2225 m lengthy barrage throughout Ganga with a canal head regulator to divert 40,000 cusecs of water thru a feeder canal for inland navigation to hold Kolkata Port.