{"id":367809,"date":"2026-07-20T14:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=367809"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:24:16","slug":"ken-and-betwa-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ken-and-betwa-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken and Betwa River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The police ended a 15-day protest against the Ken\u2013Betwa Link Project and other proposed development projects in Madhya Pradesh&#8217;s Chhatarpur district by clearing the protest site and sending the demonstrators back to their villages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About Ken River<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 443px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ken-Betwa-River-Interlinking-Project.jpg?resize=750%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ken and Betwa River \" width=\"443\" height=\"295\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source- The New Indian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is a <strong>major river of the Bundelkhand region<\/strong> of central India.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>States through which it flows:<\/strong> It is an<strong> interstate river between Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Origin and course of the river:<\/strong> It originates on the northwest slopes of the <strong>Kaimur Hills in Madhya Pradesh<\/strong> and <strong>flows for 430 km through the Katni, Panna and Chhatarpur districts in Madhya Pradesh,<\/strong> and <strong>Mahoba, Banda and Hamirpur districts in Uttar Pradesh.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It joins the Yamuna river near village <strong>Chilla near Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the<strong> last tributary of Yamuna before the Yamuna joins the Ganga.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Length:<\/strong> The total length of the river<strong>\u00a0is 427 <\/strong><strong>km.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Tributaries:<\/strong> Major tributaries of Ken River include the<strong> Sonar, Bearma, Bagain, Urmil and Khudar.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Tribuatary of:\u00a0<\/strong> It is a <strong>tributary of the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/yamuna-river\/\">Yamuna River<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Minerals:<\/strong> <strong>Shazar stone<\/strong> is found exclusively in the <strong>Ken River<\/strong> in the Banda district of India.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ecological Importance:<\/strong> It flows through<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/panna-biosphere-reserve\/\"> Panna National Park<\/a>, which is part of the larger Panna Biosphere Reserve<\/strong>, designated by UNESCO under its Man and the Biosphere Programme.\n<ul>\n<li>It is home to the <strong>Critically Endangered gharial,<\/strong> <strong>Vulnerable mugger crocodile, endangered Gangetic river dolphin<\/strong>, <strong>endangered magur catfish,<\/strong> near Threatened Indian mottled eel., etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Cultural significance:<\/strong> The river is locally known as <strong>Karnavati<\/strong>. It holds an important place in regional folklore and flows past the scenic <strong>Pandav Falls<\/strong>, which are traditionally linked to legends from the <strong>Mahabharata<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Hydrological Project:<\/strong> The <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ken-betwa-link-project-benefits-and-challenges-explained-pointwise\/\"><strong>Ken-Betwa link project<\/strong> <\/a>envisages <strong>diversion of surplus water of Ken basin to water short areas of Betwa basin by substitution.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About Betwa River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>interstate river the flows between Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin:<\/strong> The Betwa river originates in the <strong>Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh<\/strong> near Barkhera village south-west of Bhopal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Course of river:\u00a0<\/strong> It flows in a <strong>northeasterly direction through Madhya Pradesh and enters into Uttar <\/strong>Pradesh near village Bangawan of Jhansi district.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tributary of:<\/strong> It joins the <strong>Yamuna near Hamirpur in Uttar Pradesh at an elevation of about 106 m.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Length:<\/strong> The total length of the river from its<strong> origin to confluence with the Yamuna is 590 km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributaries:<\/strong> Some of the important tributaries are <strong>Bina, Jamini, Dhasan, Birma, Kaliasote, Halali, Bah, Saga, Narain and Kaithan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The police ended a 15-day protest against the Ken\u2013Betwa Link Project and other proposed development projects in Madhya Pradesh&#8217;s Chhatarpur district by clearing the protest site and sending the demonstrators back to their villages. About Ken River It is a major river of the Bundelkhand region of central India. States through which it flows:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ken-and-betwa-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ken and Betwa 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":[11872,11318],"class_list":["post-367809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-new-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367809","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=367809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}