The Ganga Morphology - The Ganga: Water Use in the Indian Subcontinent - page 58

large-scale devastation. The Ganga bank was protected at this reach in early 1990 by
armouring the slope and the bed with crated stone-boulders by the Farakka Barrage
Authority, which arrested erosion. The zone has since silted up and the gap between
the two rivers has been maintained at about 1.20 km for the last few years. Here
the right channel has shrunk owing to siltation and the central char land has moved
rightward.
Further down, the two channels have joined on the right side near village Moya
forming a single one passing very close to the right side. The deepest channel is
near the bank and the river has taken a concave shape. The afflux bund is very close
and the frontage land between the bend and the bank has been eroding gradually.
Before the flood season of 2000, a land width of about 120.0 m for a length of about
2.0 km has been washed out. The river is now flowing very close to the afflux bund
and may breach the same in future by-passing the flood discharge of the Ganga
towards the Bhagirathi and over-flooding the country side villages. Further down,
the river has taken a sharp bend from right to left up to the village Sekhalipur with
concave face on the right. Severe bank erosion has been occurring on the right. The
river bank has been armoured heavily at the location by State Government and the
bank has been acting like an armoured spur. The left side of the river is occupied by
a big char land and the same is gradually advancing towards right and pushing the
main channel further towards land.
Below Sekhalipur the deep channel flows on the right up to Jalangi Bazar, the
last point of Indian territory before entering fully into Bangladesh after travelling a
length of about 30 km. The place Akhriganj comes on the way which was affected
by severe bank erosion since 1930. The efforts of the State Government to control
erosion at this location have not been successful and the erosion process is contin-
ued. The river on the right side has entered Bangladesh in Kustia district in the name
of the river Padma.