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 Surmaand 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.
