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Krishna River

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Krishna River

 formerly Kistna River

River, southern India. Rising in Maharashtra state, it flows southeast and east across Karnataka and crosses Andhra Pradesh state before entering the Bay of Bengal after a course of 800 mi (1,290 km).



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Byline: ANI Hyderabad, Oct 5 (ANI): Floodwaters from the Krishna River have cut off the town of Vijaywada from rest of Andhra Pradesh.
In 1983, the then TDP government headed by N T Rama Rao proposed the Telugu Ganga Project based on the surplus waters of Krishna river, over and above the assured water allocated to Andhra Pradesh by the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal.
On Monday, rescue workers used about 300,000 sandbags to fortify weakening embankments of the Krishna river that flows close to Vijayawada, a city of about a million people in Andhra Pradesh and an important trading centre.
 
 
 
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