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	Damned if you do... by Kumud Biswas
		It was the 1943 flood caused by the river Damodar.
		With the coming of the British interference with the rivers gradually began in an organized manner not so much to control the floods as it was for the augmentation and protection of land revenues and other interests the British had developed, like the railways and the coal mines in the Damodar basin.
		The lower Damodar basin has also become a great producer of potato and the countryside in the districts of Burdwan and Hooghly is dotted with a large number of cold storages for storing not only potato but also other agricultural produce.
	www.boloji.com /environment/19.htm (2856 words)

	Damodar River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Damodar and the Barakar trifurcates the Chota Nagpur plateau.
		Damodar River was earlier known as the Sorrow of Bengal as it used to flood many areas of Bardhaman, Hughli, Howrah and Medinipur districts.
		The Damodar Valley is spread across Hazaribagh, Koderma, Giridih, Dhanbad, Bokaro and Chatra districts in Jharkhand and Bardhaman and Hooghly districts in West Bengal and partially covers Palamu, Ranchi, Lohardaga and Dumka districts in Jharkhand and Howrah, Bankura and Purulia districts in West Bengal with a command area of 24,235 sq km.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Damodar_River (1227 words)

	ABOUT THE REGION
		The Damodar in its upper reaches is known as the Deonad, and originates in Khamarpet hill range (1,062 m) near Chandwa in Palamau district.
		Damodar enters flat alluvial plains after Dishergarh, and runs eastward upto Barsut in Burdwan and the flow of the river becomes very sluggish at this stage.
		Damodar river basin experiences tropical climate with the hottest summer and the coldest winter.
	envfor.nic.in /divisions/cltech/Damodar/1.1.htm (1679 words)

	Damodar: theosophical pioneer
		Damodar's father, uncle, and an older brother resigned from the TS in early 1881 and became openly hostile.
		Damodar's family troubles, the public misrepresentation of the facts, and the resulting slander directed at the founders of the Theosophical Society, caused him to become depressed.
		Damodar was hoping to go to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, with a certain Tibetan functionary; Olcott calls him 'an "Avatari Lama," a very influential and mysterious Tibetan prelate', who 'is equally well known on both sides of the mountains, and makes frequent religious journeys between India and Tibet' [24].
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dp5/damodar.htm (3211 words)

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		Siddi Raju,S; Kesava Raju,K; Srinivasulu,S (1999): Hydrochemistry of Groundwaters in the Pulang river basin, Andhra Pradesh.
		Singh,NK; Kumar,B; Singh,SK (1999): Physico- chemical characteristics of water in the upper strethches of Damodar River.
		River water upstream of Nelkari confluence is clean when compared with IS 2496, Class "C" (Inland Surface Water Norms, 1982).
	members.tripod.com /envisjnu/newslet/v5n2/absts7.html (525 words)

	Impala Travel & Trekking Service: Pilgrims in Nepal
		The confluence of rivers, particularly when they are major tributaries of the Ganges, is always regarded as religiously significant by Hindus, as it is believed a third spiritual river also joins.
		The Shaligrams region is in Mustang and River Gandaki basin.
		Damodarkund is a glacier lake at the slope of Damodar Himal in Mustang.
	www.impala.com.np /english/nepal_pilgrim.php (1532 words)

	The State of the River Damodar
		The river Damodar is polluted with minerals, mine rejects and toxic effluents.
		The seven thermal power plants in the Damodar valley (three of which, with a combined installed capacity of about 1,800 mw, belong to the DVC) consume between 3,000 and 8,000 tonnes of coal a day and as much as 50 per cent of the total solids generated is in the form of flyash.
		The river and its tributaries are the largest sources of drinking water for the huge population that lives in the valley.
	www.rainwaterharvesting.org /Crisis/River-Damodar10.htm (1921 words)

	Pollution of River Damodar
		The Damodar is the most polluted river in the country today, thanks to the several industries that have sprouted on its mineral-rich banks.
		There are the coal-based industries that dot the Damodar valley: mostly government-owned coal washeries; coke oven plants; the country's major iron and steel plants; thermal power plants.
		The people living in the basin were slowly being poisoned because the Damodar and its tributaries were the only source of drinking water for most people living in the area.
	www.rainwaterharvesting.org /Crisis/Damodar.htm (149 words)

	Durgapur Society of Management Science
		It is a well-planned industrial city on the banks of the river Damodar, with a population of about 250,000.
		DTPS is in fact a part of the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), which is a string of 5 dams and 2 power plants located along the river Damodar.
		They were built to tame the mighty river, once known as the "river of sorrow", for the havoc it created during the floods in the rainy season.
	www.dsmsindia.org /aboutDurgapur.php (790 words)

	The Damodar is dying
		But the Damodar river continues to face the prospect such disasters, thanks to the unregulated discharge of untreated waste water from the industries lining its banks.
		According to deputy chief engineer K.K. Chakravarty, the floods in the lower reaches of the river, affecting the Hooghly and Howrah districts of West Bengal, occur because the Lower Damodar Drainage Scheme, initially part of the DVC project, was never implemented by the West Bengal government.
		The river water is arguably the worst affected in the lower valley below the Durgapur barrage, where the entire affluxion from the Durgapur industrial complex flows into the river.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19980726/20750734.html (1185 words)

	MAY 28
		The arsenic is laced in the coal that’s available in abundance on the banks of the river, which originates from Mahuamilan 25 kms from here and flows on to the Bay of Bengal.
		He bases his claim on two tests on water samples collected from the upper and lower areas of the river in Rohini, Piparwar, Kerketta and Dakra, the headquarter of the CCL’s NK project which was funded by the World Bank.
		The persistent mining on the river banks to reach the seams of coal beneath have dug up the earth’s surface crust, and the ‘‘overburden’’ of clay, metals and boulders were dumped on the river bank, forming an artificial hill range.
	members.tripod.com /envisjnu/news/may2k1/may28.html (596 words)

	Damodar Valley Corporation - Sitemap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Damodar Valley Corporation, popularly known as DVC, came into being on July 7, 1948 by an Act of the Constituent Assembly (Act No. XIV of 1948) as the first multipurpose river valley project of independent India.
		At the time of its inception, the objectives were flood control, provision of water for irrigation and other uses, generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, eco-conservation and afforestation and socio-economic well being of the people residing in and around DVC Projects.
		Watershed management is mainly oriented at control of soil erosion in the upper valley area through an integrated programme and at the same time for increasing the life of DVC reservoirs by reducing the flow of debris that lead to siltation in dams.
	www.dvcindia.org /citizen_charter (1204 words)

	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Platanista gangetica ssp. gangetica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		No surveys have been conducted in the Damodar River system but a single dolphin was rescued after becoming stranded in a deep pool after flow was diverted during the dry season by an upstream barrage.
		Although the long-term implications of reduced dry-season flows in the Ganges are catastrophic, both for the survival of river dolphins and a major portion of the world's human population that inhabits the Ganges basin, the cumulative effects of reduced water supplies have received little attention.
		River dolphins may be particularly vulnerable to industrial pollution because their habitat in counter-current pools downstream of confluences and sharp meanders often places them in close proximity to point sources in major urban areas (e.g., Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, Calcutta, and Dhaka).
	www.iucnredlist.org /search/details.php/41756/doc (2169 words)

	Himal South Asian-August-2000
		The Kosi river was one of the first to be straitjacketed within embankments, and those living in its vicinity were eventually to suffer the consequences.
		The river carries a large sediment load in its flow, whose accumulation on the bed causes it to meander.
		It argued, reasonably, that this would cause the sediments carried by the river to be trapped within the embankments, thereby raising the bed level of the river.
	www.himalmag.com /apr2001/essay2.html (5810 words)

	Damodar - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Damodar, river, 370 mi (595 km) long, rising in Jharkhand state, E India, and flowing SE through West Bengal state to join the Hugli River below Kolkata (Calcutta).
		Its dams supply hydroelectric power for one of India's most significant mining districts and extensive irrigation for agricultural concerns in the region.
		INDIAN GOVERNMENT: Shri P.K. Basu to be part time me member of the Damodar Valley Corporation.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-damodar.html (374 words)

	Blessingsonthenet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The district of Hooghly has the district of Burdwan on the north, the river Hooghly on the east, the district of Howrah on the south and the districts of Midnapore, Bankura and Burdwan on the west.
		The three large rivers, the Hooghly, the Damodar and the Dwarkeswar with their extensive and violent oscillations have determined the physiography o f the district and have given rise to the smaller streams.
		The various dams thrown across Damodar river in recent years have controlled the fury of the river in the floods and that water is now diverted for irrigation.
	www.blessingsonthenet.com /travel/showplace4.asp?place=Hooghly (286 words)

	Charlands (River islands) of the Damodar .:: Institut Français de Pondichéry ::.
		Charlands (River islands) of the Damodar 9 novembre 2005
		The paper explores the vulnerabilities and livelihoods of the Bangladeshi immigrants (mostly illegal) living in charlands of the Damodar river in Burdwan district of West Bengal.
		River erosion and floods make charlands highly fragile and vulnerable, with which people have to cope and have to arrange their post-flood livelihoods on their very own system with which they were used to in Bangladesh.
	www.ifpindia.org /Charlands-River-islands-of-the-Damodar.html (1084 words)

	Hell or high water
		After their unsuccessful attempt to embank the Damodar river, the “sorrow of Bengal” as they called it, in the mid-19th century, the British vowed never to touch any river with a view to controlling it—a promise they kept till they left this country in 1947.
		After the failure of the Damodar embankment scheme, questions were raised about the efficacy of embankments as a flood control measure.
		Secondly, when the river is thus bounded in, the water which could have entered the river on its own gets caught outside the embankments and causes waterlogging there.
	www.himalmag.com /99Jan/water.htm (1242 words)

	Durgapur: Three youth drowned at Damodar. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Three revelers were drowned in to the Damodar river this afternoon.
		They were enjoying polo in the riverbed and went to collect the ball that fell in to the deep-water pocket of the river.
		The area falls under the Mejia PS area, Bankura considering the midstream of the river as the inter-district boundary.
	www.bardhaman.com /news/news_dgp_010404.htm (204 words)

	Reservoir fisheries of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Palamu district is drained by the river North Koel, which joins the Son, a major tributary of the Ganga.
		The two main rivers originating in the Chhotanagpur hills and flowing down east are the Damodar and Subarnarekha.
		The river Damodar used to be described as the sorrow of Bengal due to the frequent devastation it caused by flooding.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/003/V5930E/V5930E15.htm (5534 words)

	Search Results for "Damodar"
		On the Damodar River and adjacent to dammed lakes, Dhanbad is a new city that serves as a district administrative center.
		It is an industrial center in the Damodar valley coal-mining area, with rail and road connections to major cities.
		It has industries in hosiery and tools, but is best known for its 108 linga (phallic) temples dedicated to Shiva.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Damodar (206 words)

	Damodar Valley Corporation - About Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		DVC, a legacy to the people of India, emerged as a culmination of attempts made over a whole century to control the wild and erratic Damodar river.
		The Damodar Valley has been ravaged frequently by floods of varying intensities and the first of the major recorded flood dates back to 1730.
		Thereafter serious floods occurred at regular intervals, but it was the flood of 1943 that left the worst devastation in its wake.
	www.dvcindia.org /about/index.htm (248 words)

	Burdwan: Banka River, story of a decaying lifeline. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The river acted once as a spill channel of the Damodar, near Silla; now the connecting channel is completely silted up.
		Near Alamganj, its problem is further aggravated by way of dumping fly-ashes on the river bed, filling it up for playground and children's park, discharging of polluted city-wastages through drains by the municipality without any treatment.
		The river is now used as a drainage channel by the local authority, administration, railways and the people of Burdwan without any love and sympathy for a decaying river - the life of Burdwan.
	www.bardhaman.com /news/news_bdn_060604.htm (532 words)

	Ghosh1999_abstracts
		In t he Damodar basin about 16,264 tonnes of chemical fertilizers were applied during 1978-79 representing about 1.41 per cent of that used in Ganga basin.The Geographical area of Damodar basin being about 2.7% of Ganga basin, the average rate of chemical fertilizers amounts to about 50% of that in Ganga basin (CPCB,1992).
		The daily, mean monthly and the instantaneous peak discharges at selected points of the Damodar river were analyzed in order to study the status of environment of the Damodar river in both pre and post dam period.
		Water quality of major rivers is getting rapidly degraded due to massive discharge of industrial wastes of diverse origin, domestic sewage, fly ash, mine drainage, oil and surfactants, radioactive materials etc. Extensive use of pesticides and insecticides have put the interest of agriculture and aquaculture at cross purpose.
	phys4.harvard.edu /~wilson/arsenic/conferences/Ghosh1999_abstracts.html (3241 words)

	My City DGP
		It is a well-planned industrial city on the banks of the river Damodar, with a population of about 250,000.
		DTPS is in fact a part of the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), which is a string of 5 dams and 2 power plants located along the river Damodar.
		They were built to tame the mighty river, once known as the "river of sorrow", for the havoc it created during the floods in the rainy season.
	mainak.netfirms.com /my_city_durgapur.htm (751 words)

	Damodar - Moviefone
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		Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was born in the village of Bhagur, near the city of Nasik...
		Vinayak Damodar Savarkar remains one of the most controversial Indian...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/damodar/278003/main (82 words)

	Districts of Bengal
		The Ajay, Mayurakshi, Bakreswar and Dwarka are the principle rivers.
		The city is situated in a deltaic alluvial tract intersected by numerous rivers, and the area becomes flooded during the rainy season.
		Connected by road with English Bazar (India) and Dinajpur and Rajshahi (Bangladesh), it is the chief distributing centre for the region, trading mainly in rice, jute, sugarcane, and oilseeds.
	www.infobengal.com /html/Districts.html (1876 words)

	GIS techniques for carrying capacity study of Damodar River Basin
		A digital geographic database of Damodar River Basin was created and GIS analysis and modelling techniques used to answer questions related to carrying capacity of DRB.
		The Damodar River Basin (DRB), a part of the Ganges river system drained by two major river systems Damodar and Barakar, extends over the states of Bihar and West Bengal.
		DRB data for all the five parameters were collected by different organistaions participating in the project and GIS techniques were used to create a geographic database of DRB and analyse the geographic data for identifying hot spots and what-if scenarios.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /application/geology/geomorphology/geom0001.htm (576 words)

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