Salandi River

This Salandi River is one of the prime tributaries of Baitarani River which comes under the state of Odisha. It originates via Meghasani hills of Similipal pass present in Keonjhar district. This is more than 140 kms lengthy and it also has a catchment area of 1790 km square. However, droughts are never common in this river, but during the year 1949, some of the areas were badly affected. These areas were Basudevpur, Bonth, Soro, Khaira and Simulia blocks present in the Bhadrak sub-division.

Present Situation

At present, it has launched the Water Resources Salandi project which got envisaged during the year 1960 and was completed in year 1982. Salandi River dam is located near the Hadgarh village present in the Keonjhar district Orissa state and this is approximately 47kms northern western region of Bhadrak. The government had launched the Irrigation Salandi project during the year 1965 till 1972. This was the 1st project and funded by IDA, during when R&R had took it. Moreover, there had been no clear policy about the purpose of R&R in state or country and this was launched for all the affected policies. This project has been launched for the implementation of environmental plan for the command and catchments areas.

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