{"id":365004,"date":"2026-06-12T15:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=365004"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:23:07","slug":"sukhnag-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sukhnag-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Sukhnag River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> According to the joint panel&#8217;s report to the NGT, the extraction of an estimated 10.6 lakh to 15.3 lakh tonnes of riverbed material in the Sukhnag River area has led to irreversible damage to the area&#8217;s hydrogeological systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><b>About the Sukhnag River<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 337px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cf-images.assettype.com\/downtoearth%2F2024-12-18%2F615tklhv%2F16.jpg?resize=337%2C498&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sukhnag River\" width=\"337\" height=\"498\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: DTE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>glacial river<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that flows through the <\/span><b>Budgam district of central Kashmir.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Naming:<\/strong> Sukhnag comprise<\/span>s<b> two Kashmiri Sanskrit words &#8211; &#8216;Sukh&#8217; means calm and &#8216;Naag&#8217; means spring. <\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Origin: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It rises in the <\/span><b>Tosa Maidan area of the Pir Panjal Range,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fed by the <strong>Ashtar spring and the Shin Mahnew glacier<\/strong>, before descending through forested valleys onto the <strong>Karewa plains<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Course: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From there,<\/span><b> it passes through Arizal, Zanigam, Sail, Beerwah, Rathsun, Makhama, Kawoosa and Narbal.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It finally joins <\/span><b>Jhelum in the lower valley after skirting the marshy lowlands west of the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hokersar-and-wular-lake\/\">Hokersar Wetland<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Tributary of:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is a<\/span><b> 54-km-long <\/b>tributary of the<b> Jhelum River.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Water system: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Ahji and Lar canals<\/strong> in Budgam district are located on this river.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: According to the joint panel&#8217;s report to the NGT, the extraction of an estimated 10.6 lakh to 15.3 lakh tonnes of riverbed material in the Sukhnag River area has led to irreversible damage to the area&#8217;s hydrogeological systems. About the Sukhnag River It is a glacial river that flows through the Budgam district of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sukhnag-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sukhnag River<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"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":[11872,10500],"class_list":["post-365004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365004","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\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}