Confluence of Mahananda and Padma rivers

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  KKDG (guest)

  According to the classification of the Indian rivers, the Ganga, Brahmputra and Meghna river system is known as Eastern Himalayan river system. The main stream of the above river system is Ganga river, which have received a number of tributary rising from various mountainous region and those have enriched the flow of the main stream. In the eastern part, after the river Gandak and the river Kosi meeting with the mighty river Ganga from the north, Mahananda, the most important tributary also meeting the river Ganga from the north. Mahananda is a typical river system consisting of two different stream, one arising from mountainous region of Himalayas in Nepal traverses through the Indian state of Bihar and out falls in the Ganga in left opposite to Rajmahal in Bihar and is locally named as river FULHAR. The other stream also named as MAHANANDA rises in downhill in Darjeeling in West Bengal and traverses a distance of about 400 kms. through the district of Darjeeling, West Dinajpur and Malda and enters in Bangladesh territory and ultimately out falls in the Ganga near Godagarighat in Bangladesh just opposite to Lalgola in Murshidabad district of West Bengal. The WEST channel flow through the state of Bihar in the name of FULHAR. The EAST channel flow through the district of West Dinajpur and Malda and enters in Bangladesh in the name of MAHANANDA, (India-WRIS wiki)

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