| WAG9 freight cruises the Narmada bridge at Hoshangabad, goes berserk and gives a whining hello. Hoshangabad was earlier called Narmadapur after the Narmada River. The city is famous for the beautiful Sethani ghat along the banks of the Narmada river. Hoshangabad is 18 km from Itarsi and 74 km from Bhopal. From Itarsi, one can reach Pachmarhi, the only hill station of Madhya Pradesh via Pipariya.. The Narmada also called Rewa is the fifth largest river in the Indian subcontinent. It forms the traditional boundary between North India and South India. It flows westwards over a length of 1312 km (815.2 mi) before draining through the Gulf of Cambey (Khambat) into the Arabian Sea, 30 km (18.6 mi) west of Bharuch city of Gujarat. Adi Shankara met his guru Govinda Bhagavatpada on the banks of river Narmada. The source of the Narmada is a small tank called Narmada Kund located on the Amarkantak hill (3467.8 ft), in the Anuppur District of eastern Madhya Pradesh. Dam's spillway discharging capacity at 3070000 cu ft/s (87000 m3/s), is the third highest in the world Sardar Sarovar canal is the largest irrigation canal in the world. The Narmada river has a huge water resources potential, as much as 33.21 MAF (41000 M.cum) of average annual flow, which according to estimates is greater than the combined annual flows of the Ravi, Beas and the Sutlej rivers, which feed the Indus basin. The Narmada happens to be one of the most sacred of the five holy rivers of India, the other four ... |
