Palar River

Coordinates: 12°28′04″N 80°09′16″E / 12.46778°N 80.15444°E / 12.46778; 80.15444
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Palar River
Kolar District in Karnataka
, India
Mouth 
 • location
Bay of Bengal
Length216 mi (348 km)

Palar is a river of southern India. It rises in the

Arcot, Ranipet, Walajapet, Kanchipuram, Walajabad, Chengalpattu, Kalpakkam, and Lattur are located on the banks of the Palar River. Of the seven tributaries, the chief tributary is the Cheyyar River
.

Palar river water from Palar anicut is diverted to the

Telugu Ganga project to supply nearly 1,000,000,000 litres (260,000,000 US gal) per day of Krishna River
water to the Chennai city, the dependence on Palar river water has reduced drastically.

Source of the Palar in the Nandi Hills

Controversial dam

The Andhra Pradesh Government is constructing an

Thiruvallur and Chennai benefitted by the river. Tamil Nadu's former Chief Minister Jayalalitha voiced her opposition to this proposal and said "Palar is an inter-state river and was also one of the rivers mentioned in Schedule A annexed to the 1892 agreement[4] which is in force as per Interstate River Water Disputes Act 1956. As per a clause of the agreement, the upstream state should not build any new dam or any structure to obstruct, divert, or store waters of the rivers without the consent of the downstream state".[5][6]

The average rainfall in the entire Palar river basin is low. This river basin suffers from frequent droughts and there has been no full scale flow for the past 10 years. However, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have mitigated the frequent recurrence of droughts by building numerous minor and medium irrigation tanks. This has improved the availability of water for surface as well as ground water irrigation. As per the wet land atlas of India.,

Mysore kingdom is now part of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh states.[citation needed
]

Documentary

A

quarrying and discharge of industrial effluents are sucking the life out of one of Tamil Nadu's prime sources of drinking water. It was directed by R.R. Srinivasan.[9]

This river is so important for irrigation in the north and south Arcot districts of Tamil Nadu, but it flows a meager distance of 50 kilometres (31 mi) in Andhra Pradesh, where the Palar river had been seen dry for almost 20 years. Palar has been home for mud robbery and other illegal activities.[citation needed]

Karnataka

In the State of Karnataka Palar River Originates from s Agrahara lake(kolar district of Karnataka). There are various reservoirs and check dams across the river to store the Water, While two of the most significant of them are the two Consecutive dams that are back to back with in seven Kilometers. The reservoir of Bethamangala and The Reservoir of the Ramasagara also called as Bukkasagara. The reservoir of Bethamangala had been the main source of Drinking water to the Kolar Gold Fields. And it is also a Boating area. While the second one and the largest of all reservoirs is the reservoir of the Ramasagara, which holds numerous temples at this spot. It is known famous for its fisheries till the year 2005. after which the Reservoir never got filled more than 40 percent of its capacity. The period from 2006 to the year of 2017 September the fate of the Palar river in this part was almost dry. The heavy rains in the hinterland and the basin of the palar river has brought the Bethamangala Reservoir back to its past glory, as of 6 October 2017 the Reservoir of Bethamangala is one feet deficit to its full capacity, while later Ramasagara Reservoir is just 15 percent filled and mostly dry, holds double the capacity of the former.

A few famous places like the Avani, Bangaru tirupati, Vijeyendra Swamy Temple, Someshwara Swamy temple, lies in these region, with in twenty kilometers of the epicentre Bethamangala.[10]

Cities on the river

Kaliappettai is located on the banks of the river.[11] The town of Bethamangala, village of Ramasagara, Bangaru Tirupati (Guttahalli). This region also consists two reservoirs one at Bethamangala and the largest in Karnataka at the Ramasagara.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ Palar river
  2. ^ "Dam across the Palar is not feasible: State officials". Archived from the original on 29 March 2008. Retrieved 3 July 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "Palar Anicut". Retrieved 21 May 2016.
  4. ^ "1892 Agreement - pages 279 to 293" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  5. ^ TN against AP making dam on Palar river
  6. ^ "Ponnala defends dam across Palar". The Hindu. 26 September 2010. Archived from the original on 1 October 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
  7. ^ Wet lands of India 2011
  8. ^ "Map of Madras Presidency in 1909". Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  9. ^ A documentary charts the plight of Palar
  10. ^ Archives, K. G. F. (23 November 2021), English: Reservoir, retrieved 22 November 2021
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