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River
Basins of India
(For
international / state boundaries and coastline, authoritative survey
of India maps may be referred to:)
There are 20 river
basins/draining areas, large and small, in India. The Ganga basin is
the largest. Narmada river is the fifth largest river and is also the
largest west flowing river. Narmada basin has been shown at index 15
in the basin map.
| S.No. |
Name
of Basin |
S.No. |
Name
of Basin |
| 1 |
Indus |
10 |
Brahmani
and Baitarani |
| 2 |
a)
Ganga (Upto Border)
b) Brahmaputra (Upto Border)
c) Barak etc. (Upto Border) |
11 |
Subernarekha |
| 12 |
Sabarmati |
| 3 |
Godavari |
13 |
Mahi |
| 4 |
Krishna |
14 |
West
flowing ivers of Kutch and Kathiawar including Luni |
| 5 |
Cauvery |
15 |
Narmada |
| 6 |
Pennar |
16 |
Tapi |
| 7 |
East
flowing rivers between Krishna and Pennar and
between Mahanadi and Godavari |
17 |
West
flowing rivers from Tapi to Tadri |
| 8 |
East
flowing rivers between Krishna and Kanyakumari |
18 |
West
flowing rivers from Tadri to Kanyakumari |
| 9 |
Mahanadi |
19 |
Area
of Inland drainage in Rajasthan |
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20 |
Minor
river basins drainage to bangladesh & Burma |
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