GORAI River

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  kkdg (guest)

  Gorai-Madhumati River a principal distributary of the ganges. The same river has been named as the Gorai in the upper course and Madhumati in the lower course. Once the main flow of the Ganges used to be discharged by this river, although previously Hugli-Bhagirathi was the original course of the Ganges. The Gorai takes off from the Ganges at Talbaria, north of kushtia town and 19 km downstream from hardinge bridge. South of Kushtia its first offshoot, the Kaliganga branches off to join the kumar near shailkupa. This river has been dammed by one of the primary canals of the ganges-kobadak irrigation project (G-K Project) and the lower half of the course is now almost a dry bed. The main river bifurcates and rejoins several times as it flows southeast to Mohammadpur upazila in Magura district. From here it changes its name to Madhumati. The Kumar, the nabaganga and the chitra join it through several channels south of Mollahat upazila. There it changes its name to Baleshwar, which in turn changes to Haringhata from the Bogi forest outpost of the sundarbans. The Gorai-Madhumati has a flood discharge of nearly 7,000 cumec but in winter its flow goes down to five cumec,(BanglaPedia).

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