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The Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna system has the second-greatest average discharge of the world's rivers—roughly ~44,000 m 3 /s (1,600,000 cu ft/s), and the river Brahmaputra alone supplies about 50% of the total discharge.
This is a list of dams on the Brahmaputra River and hydro–infrastructure in the Brahmaputra River Basin which is a key constituent of the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin of Himalayan rivers. Brahmaputra originates near Mount Kailash , flows through Tibet where it is called Yarlung Tsangpo .
Part of delta of Ganges and Brahmaputra river system: West Bengal: Gangetic Delta: Royal Bengal tiger: 9630 6 1989: Manas: Part of Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Barpeta, Nalbari, Kamrup and Darrang Districts: Assam: Eastern Hills: Asiatic elephant, tiger, Assam roofed turtle, hispid hare, golden langur, pygmy hog: 2837 7 1989: Great Nicobar Biosphere ...
Dooars between Manas River and Bornadi River are called Kamrup Dooars. [9] The five Dooars under Kamrup Dooars include Bijni , Chapakhamar, Chapaguri, Banska and Gurkola. [ 9 ] Under the Bhutan government, the Kamrup Duars was under a Penlop or Provincial Governor under whom was the Jongpen or Subah. [ 10 ]
The Zangmu Dam (藏木) is a gravity dam on the Yarlung Zangbo/Brahmaputra River 9 km (5.6 mi) northwest of Gyaca in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. This dam is built a few kilometers from the Bhutan-India border. The purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power production using run-of-the-river technology. [7]
Below the Teesta, the Brahmaputra splits into two distributary branches. The western branch, which contains the majority of the river's flow, continues due south as the Jamuna to merge with the lower Ganges, called the Padma River. The eastern branch, formerly the larger but now much smaller, is called the lower or Old Brahmaputra.
The Joint River Commission was a bilateral working group established by India and Bangladesh in the Indo-Bangla Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Peace that was signed on March 19, 1972, and came into being in November 1972. As per the treaty, the two nations established the commission to work for the common interests and sharing of water ...
In December 2017, the union minister Nitin Gadkari flagged off 2 barges of 200-tonne capacity each carrying a total of 400 tonnes of cement from the Pandu Port to Dhubri Port for a distance of 255 km, resulting in reduction of 300 km of road travel and logistics costs for this Sagarmala project to connect Northeast India and to enhance movement for the Indian Armed Forces by setting up roll on ...