{"id":360656,"date":"2026-04-13T16:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=360656"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:24:15","slug":"about-kangsabati-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/about-kangsabati-river\/","title":{"rendered":"About Kangsabati River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Despite adequate reservoir water, irrigation was denied for Boro cultivation, leaving farmers in multiple districts without work and facing economic hardship.<\/p>\n<h2>About Kangsabati River<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_360660\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360660\" style=\"width: 349px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-360660\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Source-Wikipedia.jpg?resize=349%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Kangsabati River\" width=\"349\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Source-Wikipedia.jpg?resize=300%2C228&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Source-Wikipedia.jpg?w=701&amp;ssl=1 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-360660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>Origin<\/strong>: The Kangsabati River <strong>rises from the Chota Nagpur Plateau<\/strong> in <strong>Purulia district near Jhalda (West Bengal)<\/strong>, where <strong>Saharjhor and Girgiri rivers join together<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Course<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The river flows through <strong>Purulia, Bankura, Jhargram, Paschim Medinipur and Purba Medinipur districts.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>At<strong> Keshpur, it splits into two branches,<\/strong> showing an important river feature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributaries:<\/strong> The <strong>Bhairabbanki<\/strong> is an important tributary that <strong>joins the river at Binpur.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Drains into:<\/strong> The river <strong>meets Keleghai to form Haldi River<\/strong>, which <strong>drains into the Bay of Bengal at Haldia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Major Project:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Kangsabati Irrigation Project<\/strong> was launched in 1956 to provide irrigation to Bankura, Hooghly and Midnapore districts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mukutmanipur Dam,<\/strong> an <strong>earthen gravity dam,<\/strong> was constructed with 1.04 cubic km storage capacity, irrigating about 3,500 sq km area, showing its regional importance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Despite adequate reservoir water, irrigation was denied for Boro cultivation, leaving farmers in multiple districts without work and facing economic hardship. About Kangsabati River \u00a0Origin: The Kangsabati River rises from the Chota Nagpur Plateau in Purulia district near Jhalda (West Bengal), where Saharjhor and Girgiri rivers join together. Course: The river flows through Purulia,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/about-kangsabati-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Kangsabati River<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-360656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}