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{{Short description|The canal associated with the Farakka Barrage}}
[[File:FEEDER CANAL.jpg|thumb]]
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2018}}
'''Feeder Canal'''<ref name="SalmanUprety2002">{{cite book|last1=Salman|first1=Salman M. A.|last2=Uprety|first2=Kishor|title=Conflict and cooperation on South Asia's international rivers: a legal perspective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8GEr4fyDbqgC&pg=PA135|year=2002|publisher=World Bank Publications|isbn=978-0-8213-5352-3|pages=135–136}}</ref> is a canal associated with [[Farakka Barrage]]. It is located in [[Murshidabad district]], [[West Bengal]]. The canal is 38.3 km(26 miles) long. The Ganges water from the Farakka Dam is being conveyed to Bhagirathi by way of this canal. Due to the flow of river [[Hooghly river|Bhagirathi-Hooghly]] through the Farakka dam project, around 40,000 cusec of water is available daily in the Feeder connection. The Feeder canal has been designed keeping in mind the ability to carry this amount of water. However, during the dry season, less water is released. The dry season is from January to May. During the period the flow of water in the feeder canal is reduced from 40 thousand cusecs to 30 to 28 thousand cusecs.<ref>{{cite news|title= Five units in NTPC Farakka plant shut down due to lack of water|url=http://m.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/five-units-in-ntpc-farakka-plant-shut-down-due-to-lack-of-water/article8346477.ece}}</ref> If the severe drought brings down the Ganges water from its upper reaches, then less water is available in feeder canal.<ref>{{cite news|title=ফারাক্কায় বাংলাদেশকে দেয়ার মতো যথেষ্ট পানি থাকে না | url=http://m.dailynayadiganta.com/?/detail/news/211659}}</ref>

The 38.38 km long feeder canal takes off upstream of the Farakka Barrage and links with the [[Hooghly River|Bhagirathi River]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://fbp.gov.in/ | title = Farakka Barrage Project | publisher = FBP | accessdate = 25 July 2017}}</ref> The feeder canal was constructed across the flow of the small flashy rivers such as Gumani, Trimohini and Kanloi. The discharges of the Trimohini and Kanloi were designed to flow into the feeder canal, and whenever the discharges of these rivers exceed the design capacity, they cause problems. The discharge of the Bagmari was designed to flow into the Ganga along its course through a siphon across the feeder canal. With the choking of the outlet to the Ganges, the flood discharge spills over to the basins of the Pagla and the Bansloi and floods around 100 km<sup>2</sup>.<ref name=river>{{cite web | url = http://gangawaterway.in/assets/7-murshidabad.pdf | title = Types and sources of floods in Murshidabad, West Bengal | work = Swati Mollah | publisher = Indian Journal of Applied Research, February 2013 | accessdate = 15 August 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170820073737/http://gangawaterway.in/assets/7-murshidabad.pdf | archive-date = 20 August 2017 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

==Farakka water sharing treaty==
As per the treaty between [[India]] and [[Bangladesh]], signed in 1996, for sharing of the Ganges water at [[Farakka]], the division is as follows:<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ssvk.org/koshi/reports/treaty_on_farakka_india_bangladesh_4_ganga_river_water.pdf | title = Treaty between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh on sharing of the Ganga/ Ganges waters at Farakka | publisher = ssvk| accessdate = 12 August 2017}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Availability at Farakka||Share of India||Share of Bangladesh
|-
|70,000 cusecs or less||50%||50%
|-
|70,000 – 75,000 cusecs||Balance of the flow||35,000 cusecs
|-
|75,000 cusecs or more||40,000 cusecs||Balance of the flow
|-
|}

==References==
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[[Category:Barrages (dam)]]
[[Category:Canals in West Bengal]]

Farakka Feeder Canal - Revision history

>Anupamdutta73 at 17:43, 4 April 2021