About Subarnarekha River:
- Origin: It originates near Nagri village in the Ranchi District of Jharkhand.
- The Subarnarekha (meaning “Streak of Gold”) flows east through a copper-mining region and leaves the Chota Nagpur plateau by the Hundrugbagh waterfall.
- It flows into the Bay of Bengal.
- Tributaries: Its principal tributaries joining from right are the Kanchi, the Karkari and the Kharkai.
- The basin is bounded by:
- Chhotanagpur plateau on the north and the west, by the ridges separating it from Baitarani basin on the south, by the Bay of Bengal on the south-east and by the Kasai Valley of Kangsabati River on the east.
- River Basin: It extends over States of Jharkhand, Odisha and comparatively smaller part in West Bengal.
- The basin is generally influenced by the South-West monsoon, which onsets in the month of June and extends up to October.
- Dams and Reservoirs: Getalsud Reservoir, Chandil Dam, Galudih Barrage and Icha Dam.
