Barak River

In News: The assured depth dredging work of river Barak (NW-16) from Badarpur to Bhanga (10.5 km) has been awarded to Dredging Corporation of  India.

• Funds have been disbursed by the World Bank to improve the waterways in Assam

Barak River:

• Barak rises in the Manipur hills and enters the plains near Lakhipur, Assam
• The river enters Bangladesh as Surma and Kushiyara.
• Later, the river is called the Meghna and receives the combined flow of the Ganga and Brahmaputra.
• The principal tributaries of Barak are the Jiri, the Dhaleswari, the Singla, the Longai, the Sonai and the Katakhal.
• The Barak sub-basin drains areas in India, Bangladesh and Burma.
• The drainage area lying in India is 41723 sq.km which is nearly 1.38% of the total geographical area of the country.
• It is be on the north by the Barail range separating it from the Brahmaputra sub-basin, on the east by the Na Lushai hills and on the south and west by Bangladesh.
• The sub-basin lies in the States of Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Assam, Tripura and Nagaland.
• The hydropower potential of the basin is 2042 MW at 60% load factor.

Source: PIB