Where is saraswati river now

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This abrupt change appears to be consequence of sudden modification or diversion of contributing channels for constructing five canals western Yamuna canal starting from the foothills in Yamunanagar wherein there was a considerable anthropogenic rerouting of streams so as to make water available in Fatehabad and Hisar.

Share Via. By Hitender Rao , Chandigarh. A paleochannel is a deposit of sediment filling the course of an ancient river. As many as 80 people who were digging the course of the Saraswati in Mugalwali village of Yamunanagar district when they noticed water coming out at a shallow depth of just eight feet. It was for the first time since the project to trace the original route of River Saraswati was launched in April the excavation team discovered water.

The Saraswati Heritage Development Board which is in charge of the operations say the monsoon will sustain the river as of now, for a later stage they are planning to build a dam at Adi Badri, considered the origin of the Vedic era river to ensure the water flow. Saraswati is not a myth", Bharati had said in August Extensively referred to in the Vedas and Hindu epics, mythical Saraswati river, according to the historians, had dried up 4, years ago.

In Rig Veda, the river is mentioned as flowing between the Yamuna in the east and the Sutlej in the west. The Mahabharata, mentions that the Saraswati dried up in a desert. According to beliefs the river passed through areas of Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat and parts of Pakistan.

Even though modern science never acknowledged the existence of the river post-independence a number of efforts have been undertaken to prove its existence. The rgwd was clear about what it set out to do. Once these channels were retraced, and the sequence of the river flow established, it would go a long way in solving the water problem in arid Rajasthan. The theory was that these channels could transport surplus water from Punjab and Haryana during the monsoons, and store it for future use.

While rgwd is investigating sites of palaeo-channels, cgwb is carrying out drilling activities for water and soil samples. This experiment is novel in that Rajasthan would be the first to ever use palaeo-channels for transporting water and storing it underground. Satellite images, supported by a four-year drilling exercise, which was guided by ancient literature, have established that the river Saraswati is not a myth. It was a huge river that died a premature death about 5, years ago, and is now buried 60 metres below the ground.

A map of all the channels discovered so far leads one to conclude that it was probably 1, km long, three to fifteen kms wide, and about five metres deep. The river probably crisscrossed the present-day states of Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan. S C Sharma, regional director, cgwb , says it continues to flow to the sea at a rate of 20 metres a year. The prospect of rediscovering the Saraswati was triggered off by digital photographs sent by the American satellite Landsat.

To the surprise of many scientists, the photographs showed the presence of underground water in a definitive pattern in the Jaisalmer area. It was during this time that scientists started speaking of a large palaeo-channel in Rajasthan that could well belong to a big river. Remote sensing images of the isro and the Geological Survey of India gsi also found the existence of palaeo-channels of a mighty river in seven to eight places, all lying on the west of the Aravalli ranges.

The images pointed to the possibility that the river started at the foothills of the Aravallis and shifted westward in stages. The river seems to enter Rajasthan in Ganganagar district, with its tail ends in Bikaner and Jaisalmer districts, a few kilometres from the Rann of Kutchh. Further, a geophysical survey undertaken by the rgwd in the Tanot and Longewala areas indicated the existence of coarse sediments in the depth range of 30 to 60 metres pointing to the possibility of the existence of a river in the region.

However, until the project initiated by Jagmohan was inaugurated, scientists were hesitant to call it 'revival of the Saraswati'.

Officially, they preferred to call it 'revival of palaeo-channels'. However, S Kalyan Raman, member of the new project committee, is clear that he is working on the Saraswati. Nearly 2, of the 2, Harappan sites that have been discovered are situated on the old palaeo-channels of Saraswati.