ISBN: 9789391685065 - nightmare: changing river course (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 100.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. The increasing erosion in the right bank of the Padma in the Moribund delta region of Murshidabad district, West Bengal is becoming the nightmare for the people of the area. The Padma is the principal river of the region and controls total drainage system of the area by oscillation and change of its course. As the Padma is a meandering river, bank erosion followed by flood is the common phenomenon. But indiscriminate drawal of water in the upper reaches of the Ganga, deforestation and most importantly construction of Farakka Barrage has aggravated the dimension of river bank erosion. Areas near the Padma have seriously been affected by the changing course of the mother river or its distributaries. In the present treaties author has tried to focus and highlight through empirical data that the study area according to intensity of erosion has been divided.…