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'''Bidyadhari River''' (also spelt Bidyadhari or simply called Bidya), is a river in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]]. It originates near [[Haringhata]] in [[Nadia district]] and then flows through Deganga, Habra and Barasat areas of [[North 24 Parganas]] before joining the [[Raimangal River]] in the [[Sundarbans]].<ref name=statesman>{{cite web|url=http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=23&id=35751&usrsess=1 |title=Health of Vidyadhari a cause for concern |access-date=2009-10-27 |last=Chatterjee |first=Rajib |publisher=The Statesman, 31 October 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929102706/http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=23&id=35751&usrsess=1 |archive-date=September 29, 2007 }}</ref>

The river has formed a major navigation route for earlier civilisations. The river port of [[Chandraketugarh]] in the third century BC was on the banks of this river. This river has been the major drainage system of North 24 Parganas and Kolkata.<ref name=statesman/>

The Sundarbans area has a network of interconnecting waterways. The larger channels are often a mile wide running in a north-south direction. The Bidyadhari and other such channels now carry little freshwater as they are mostly cut off from the Ganges, the main source of fresh water. As a result of the [[subsidence]] of the Bengal Basin and a gradual eastward tilting of the overlying crust the Hooghly-Bhagirathi channels have progressively shifted eastwards since the seventeenth century.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://cwc.gov.in/CPDAC/Paper_Research_Work/Paper%20Research%20Work%20.pdf| title = Mangrove Forest in India| access-date = 2009-10-27| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110721161718/http://cwc.gov.in/CPDAC/Paper_Research_Work/Paper%20Research%20Work%20.pdf| archive-date = 2011-07-21| url-status = dead}}</ref>
[[File:Bidyadhari river Haroa.jpg|thumb|Bidyadhari River, [[Haroa (community development block)|Haroa]], [[Basirhat]]]]

==References==
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{{Rivers in and around Bengal}}

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[[Category:Rivers of West Bengal]]
[[Category:North 24 Parganas district]]
[[Category:Sundarbans]]
[[Category:Rivers of India]]

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>Sadads at 00:32, 14 March 2021