{"id":87249,"date":"2020-05-18T22:45:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T17:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15522"},"modified":"2020-05-18T22:45:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T17:15:10","slug":"west-bengal-major-irrigation-and-flood-management-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/west-bengal-major-irrigation-and-flood-management-project\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal Major Irrigation and Flood Management Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Government of India, West Bengal Government, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank(AIIB) and World Bank have signed a loan agreement for a project titled \u2018West Bengal Major Irrigation and Flood Management Project\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>To improve irrigation service delivery, strengthen flood risk management and improve climate change resilience in the Damodar Valley Command Area(DVCA).<\/li><li><strong>Significance: <\/strong>The project is intended to benefit about 2.7 million farmers from five districts of West Bengal.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Damodar River:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is a river flowing across the Indian states of Jharkhand and West Bengal.<\/li><li><strong>Origin:<\/strong>It rises in the Palamu hills of the Chota Nagpur plateau in the state of Jharkhand.<\/li><li><strong>Main Tributaries: <\/strong>Barakar, Konar, Bokaro, Haharo, Jamunia, Ghari, Guaia, Khadia and Bhera.<\/li><li>The river was earlier known as the River of Sorrows as it used to flood many areas of Districts of West Bengal.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/2x-7llqPZt59kjhUr60-jb3dH-uLMFCV2bpaqXhjfIz2jmOoc79soZcJ3dHNGjLCoCeybo2PK1V34FhxNntiK3PjQVDWRakXuDkSTOdCMokLKt7G_YD15mCCdpq_q4QbuJOCClQn\" width=\"624\" height=\"471\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Government of India, West Bengal Government, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank(AIIB) and World Bank have signed a loan agreement for a project titled \u2018West Bengal Major Irrigation and Flood Management Project\u2019. Facts: Aim: To improve irrigation service delivery, strengthen flood risk management and improve climate change resilience in the Damodar Valley Command Area(DVCA). Significance:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/west-bengal-major-irrigation-and-flood-management-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">West Bengal Major Irrigation and Flood Management Project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4995],"class_list":["post-87249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-west-bengal-major-irrigation-and-flood-management-project","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704719367},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87249","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\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}