The Ganga Morphology - The Ganga: Water Use in the Indian Subcontinent - page 41

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Fig. 5.4 Ganga/Padma river downstream of Farakka Barrage
The flow through the Bhagirathi is unidirectional toward the Hooghly (below
Nabadweep) and the water-level rises between July and October but falls in the
dry season from November to June. In its 230-km length, the Bhagirathi is fed by
a number of major and minor tributaries from both sides - the major being the
Bansloi, the Pagla, the Babla, and the Ajay on the right and the Jalangi on the left.
All these except the Jalangi are ephemeral and bring sediment in monsoon season
only. Before construction of the Farakka Barrage, the flow in the Bhagirathi was