Correct option is A
- Barak River is one of the major rivers of South Assam.
- The 564 kilometres long river is part of the Surma-Meghna River System.
- It rises in the hill country of Manipur where it is the biggest and most important of hill country rivers.
- After Manipur, it flows through Mizoram and Assam.
- It later enters Bangladesh where it forks into Surma and Kushiyara rivers.
- Later, the river is called the Meghna and received the combined flow of the Ganga and Brahmaputra rivers.
- The sixth national waterway stretch is on this river.
- The Barak River, the Head stream of Meghna, rises in the hills in Manipur.
- The important tributaries of the river are Makku, Trang, Tuivai, Jiri, Sonai, Rukni, Katakhal, Dhaleswari, Langachini, Maduva and Jatinga.
- Barak continues in Bangladesh till the combined Ganga-Brahmaputra join it near Bhairab Bazar.