Farakka Barrage is a barrage across the Ganga river located in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal, roughly 18 kilometres (11 mi) from the border with Bangladesh near sahibganj. Farakka Barrage Township is located in Farakka (community development block) in Murshidabad district. Construction of the barrage started in 1962, and was completed in 1970 at a cost of $208 million.[1] It became operational on 21 April 1975. The barrage is about 2,304 metres (7,559 ft) long.[2] The Feeder Canal (Farakka) from the barrage to the Bhagirathi-Hooghly River is about 42 km (26 mi) long.[3]
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FarakkaBarrage is a barrage across the Ganga river located in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal, roughly 18 kilometres (11 mi) from...
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Farrakka Barrage Township is a census town in the Farakka CD block in the Jangipur subdivision of the Murshidabad district in the state of West Bengal...
West Bengal. New Farakka Junction railway station lies south of the FarakkaBarrage. The 2,240-metre-long (7,350 ft) FarakkaBarrage carries a rail-cum-road...
with FarakkaBarrage. It is located in Murshidabad district, West Bengal. The canal is 38.3 km (26 miles) long. The Ganges water from the Farakka Dam is...
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of nearly 18.56 billion tonnes of silt. Farakkabarrage has led to following problems upstream of the barrage: Interception of the flow channel being...
Hooghly River. About 10 kilometres from the border with Bangladesh the FarakkaBarrage, built in 1974, controls the flow of the Ganges, diverting some of...
The Farakka Setu or Farakka Bridge is a four-lane bridge located 500 meters downstream of FarakkaBarrage. The bridge is intended to reduce traffic congestion...
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after India declared its intention to build the FarakkaBarrage. The original purpose of the barrage, which was completed in 1975, was to divert up to...
making the entire route a uni-gauge one. In the early 1965s, when FarakkaBarrage was being constructed, a more radical change was made. Indian Railways...
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the periodic drying up of the Ganges River in Bangladesh due to the FarakkaBarrage. It was formally cancelled in 2017. In 1963, Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton...
will be flagged off on 30 December 2023. In the early 1960s, when FarakkaBarrage was being constructed, a radical change was made in the railway system...
the decrease of river depth. The Ganges is a meandering river and FarakkaBarrage has disrupted the dynamic equilibrium of the river and hindered the...
is provided by the man-made Farakka Feeder Canal, rather than the natural source of the river at Giria. The FarakkaBarrage is a dam that diverts water...
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Farakka Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal. As per orders of the Delimitation...
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tributaries. Bhagirathi is a branch of the Ganges, and flows southwards from Farakkabarrage where it originates from the Ganges. It flows southwards through the...
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Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:Farakka (assembly constituency no. 50), Aurangabad (assembly constituency no. 51)...
decay of the Ganges by greatly diminishing the flow of the river. The FarakkaBarrage was built originally to divert fresh water into the Hooghly River but...
longest barrage in the world. It was constructed by Hindustan Construction Company (HCC),the company which constructed the 2,253 m long FarakkaBarrage, the...
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