List of the Indian Cities on River Banks

List of Indian cities on river banks: Indian rivers play a considerable role in the lives of the Indian people as they are highly dependent on rivers for various purposes like irrigation, potable water, cheap transportation, and electricity, as well as providing livelihoods to many people of the country. Due to this, most of the major cities of India are located by the banks of rivers. Many Indian rivers are also considered to be sacred as per Hinduism and are considered holy by all Hindus in the country.

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Since Indian Rivers are that important, so this topic becomes important from an exam point of view too. No matter for which defence exam, you are preparing you should go through this list once in order to score well in the general knowledge section of this paper. Here we have provided you with the full list of the cities in India through which major rivers flow.

List of the Indian Cities on River Banks

Majorly, Seven rivers that are, Indus, Brahmaputra, Narmada, Tapi, Godavari, Krishna and Mahanadi and their several tributaries make up the river system of India. Most of the rivers discharge their waters into the Bay of Bengal and Some rivers whose courses take them through the western part of the country and towards the east of the state of Himachal Pradesh drain into the Arabian Sea.

Let us look into Major Indian Cities on River Banks –

City on Ganga River

1. Haridwar

• Haridwar is considered to be a holy city by the Hindu people.
• As Ganga starts its journey from Gaumukh, it enters the Indo-Gangetic plains of North India in this city.
• Kumbh Mela is also celebrated here every fourth year.

Many pilgrims come here to perform showering on the bank of the Ganga and it is considered that here taking bath can wash away sins.

2. Kanpur

• Kanpur is an industrial city in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh,
• It is known as the Manchester of East.

The city produces an estimated 450 million litres of municipal sewage and industrial effluent daily, a majority of which was flowing directly into the holy river until recently.

3. Prayagraj

• Earlier the city was known by the name Allahabad, situated in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
• It is the seventh most populous city in the State.
• It is the second most established city of India and assumes a focal part in Hindu holy cities. It facilitated both sports and cultural occasions.

4. Varanasi

• Varanasi is also called Banaras or Kashi and is known for its ghats, gullies and the holy river Ganga.
• It is a North Indian city on the bank of the river Ganga in Uttar Pradesh.
• The revered Kashi Vishwanath temple has one of the holiest jyotirlingas.

5. Patna

• Patna is the capital of Bihar state, situated on the south bank of the Ganga in Eastern India.
• Patna is known for its Gandhi Ghat on the bank of the River Ganga.

6. Rishikesh

• 70 km before Rishikesh, Alakhnanda and Bhagirathi rivers meet and become a single flow named Ganga. A place where the rivers blend is called Devprayag.
• Rishikesh is the very first city met by the sacred river on her way, which is a metropolitan board and a tehsil in the Dehradun region of Uttarakhand.
• It is situated in the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India known as “the gateway of the Garhwal Himalayas”.
• Rishikesh is known for its Ayurvedic medication.
• It has four chota char Dham journey places, Gangotri, Yamunotri, Badrinath, and Kedarnath.

There are some other cities which are also located on the banks of the Ganga River such as Kolkata, Bala, Kanpur, Baharampur, Bhagalpur, Mirzapur, and Jajmau, these are also equally important.