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General Facts on Indian Rivers

The river known as Bengal’s sorrow is River Damodar

Prayag or Allahabad is believed to be the confluence (sangam)
of these rivers Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati

The number of Indian rivers which have been classified as
major rivers by the Government is Twelve.

There are three Trans-Himalayan rivers which originate in the
high Tibetan Plateau and cut across the mighty Himalayan

ranges. Indus, Brahmaputra, and Sutlej.

RIVERS AND THEIR PLACE OF

ORIGIN

River Place of origin

Ganga Gangotri (Uttarakhand)
Yamuna Yamunotri (Uttarakhand)

Indus Mansarovar (Tibet)

Narmada Maikal Hills, Amarkantak (MP)
Tapi/Tapti Satpura Range, Betul (MP)

Mahanadi Nagri Town (Chhattisgarh)
Brahmaputra Chemayungdung (Tibet)

Sutlej Mt Kailash (Tibet)
Beas Rohtang Pass (Himachal Pradesh)

Godavari Nasik (Maharashtra)

Krishna Mahabaleshwar (Maharashtra)
Cauvery Brahmagiri Hills, Coorg (Karnataka)

Sabarmati Udaipur, Aravalli Hills (Rajasthan)
Ravi Chamba (Himachal Pradesh)

Pennar Nandi Hills, Chickballapur (Karnataka)
Luni Pushkar, Aravalli Hills (Rajasthan)

Chambal Janapav, Indore, Vindhyas (MP)

Teesta Cholamu Lake (Sikkim)