Karanja River
River in Karnataka, India
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The Karanja River is a tributary of the Manjira River. The river basin is up to 2,422 km sq. The Karanja river is perennial river. It flows over a distance of 74 km with Karanja reservoir being major water source. The river is not navigable. The river flows through Bidar district in Karnataka.[1]
Karanja dam, a major irrigation project in the district, has a total capacity of 9.27 tmc ft. The dam was commissioned in 1969 to irrigate 29,227 hectares of land using 9.27 tmc ft. of water. It was completed in 1989.[2]
In Bidar district of Karnataka, there are Surang Bavis (wells), built by Behmani Kings, which connect the Karanja river valley on Kalaburagi road to the Manjra valley on the Karnataka-Telangana border near Aliabad village.[3]