🌊 Rivers · The Peninsular Plateau
Damodar
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Flows through a rift valley on the eastern margins of the Chotanagpur plateau and joins the Hugli; the Barakar is its main tributary. Once the ‘sorrow of Bengal’, it was tamed by the Damodar Valley Corporation, a multipurpose project.
📘 NCERT Class 11, India: Physical Environment, Ch. 3 (Drainage System) ↗
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