The northern branch flows through the Daspur area, where it is known as the Palashpai Canal. This branch eventually flows into the Rupnarayan River. The other branch, still called the Kangsabati, flows in a south-easterly direction. Eventually, it meets the Keleghai River, and the junction of the two forms the Haldi River, which flows into the Bay of Bengal at Haldia.[1]
Kangsabati Project
Kangsavati Reservoir, West Bengal, India
In 1956, the Indian government launched the Kangsabati Irrigation Project (also called the Kangsabati Reservoir Project) to provide water for the irrigation of Bankura, Hooghly, and Midnapore districts (the last now partitioned into Paschim Medinipur and Purba Medinipur districts).[2] To facilitate this, Mukutmanipur Dam was constructed at the border of Purulia and Bankura districts near Mukutmanipur, creating a large reservoir.[3] It is an earthen gravity dam with a concrete saddle spillway, standing 38 metres (125ft) high and 10,098m (33,130ft) long with a gross storage capacity of 1.04 cubic kms (36.73 tmcft).[3] Prior to this project, an anicut dam built on the Kangsabati River near Midnapore in 1784 was the sole irrigational structure on the river.[4]As of August2008[update], the dam provided water to just under 3,500 square kilometres (1,400mi2) of land.[2]
