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A Review of Indian Major Rivers along with Maharashtra State Pondhe G. M* and Dhere A. M**. *Department of Environmental Science, P.V.P. College, Pravaranagar-Loni, Dist Ahmednagar (MS) India, (Affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune). **S.N.D.T. College of Home Science, Pune (MS) India. -----------------------------------------------------------------------***----------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract: Present article deals with A Review of Indian Major Rivers along with Maharashtra State. Rivers in India are
divided into four groups- i.e. Rivers originated from Himalaya, River passes from Deccan Plateau, Rivers of coastal area and inland Rivers. About 12 major Rivers, 48 medium Rivers and more than 100 minor Rivers are found in India. The Maharashtra State having 17 main Rivers, out of which 11 are western flowing Rivers. The River networks are widely spread across every direction. However, due to interrupting the flow of River by building huge dams and reservoirs resulted in modification of natural dimensions of River as well as altering their characteristics.
Key words- Review, Major, River, Network, Minor. 1. Introduction: India receives 4000 BCM water from rainfall during monsoon months (June to September). Out of which 700 BCM is directly gone to the atmosphere while 2150 BCM dissipated to ground whereas nearly 1869 BCM poured through River towards the ocean. There are extremely huge temporal and spatial variations of rainfall during monsoon period and which have average annual rainfall of the country is about 1170 mm. (CWC, 2014).
1.1: Rivers in India: In India the Rivers are religiously significant and people prays for worship. The River networks are widely spread across every direction. About 12 major, 48 medium and more than 100 minor Rivers are found in India (WRIS, 2020). Major Rives like Ganga, Bhramaputra, Meghna etc. covered 1.10 million Km 2 land of India. This is equivalent to 43 % of River basin area. Other major Rivers i.e. Krishna, Godavari, Indus and Mahanadi etc. extend over 0.10 million Km2 area (CWC, 2014a & b). Almost all medium and minor Rives are lies in the coastal area (Bhardwaj, 2005). The network of River in India is shown in Map 1. Map-1: Showing network of major Rivers in India.
Source- Water Resource Information System (WRIS), 2020
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