Yet others say, the Son wooed the mighty Narmada and she agreed to marry him. It is one of only three major rivers in peninsular India that run from east to west (longest west flowing river), along with the Tapti River and the Mahi River. A River Sutra. Narmada, one of the most beautiful rivers of India, has been the pivotal force of a culture known for its simplicity and religious strength. The Narmada basin mainly consists of black soils. It is also one of only three rivers in penninsula that flows from east to west. The voluminous river flowed down sweeping Ravana’s shivalinga along, messing up his prayers. The NBA followed up by Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court of India. Two normal faults, known as the Narmada North fault and Narmada South fault, parallel to the river's course, and mark the boundary between the Narmada block and the Vindhya and Satpura blocks or Horsts which rose relative to the Narmada Graben. The Story Of Narmada (e-book) Much before people lived together along the Indus or Ganga, the Narmada valley was humming with activity – it was, and still is, home to many tribes of the ‘earliest settlers’, the Adivasis. The Tribunal's final order determined the utilisable quantum of Narmada waters to be 27,000,000 acre feet (33 km3) at 75% dependability and allocated it to the four states, as in Table below, including share of power benefits. Son got chatting with Johilla and found her rather enchanting. After intense parleys failed to resolve the problem, the GOI decided to set up the Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal (NWDT) in 1969 under the Interstate River Water Disputes Act 1956 to adjudicate on the dispute relating to sharing of water of the interstate Narmada and its valley. Then he placed 10 lamps on his heads and one on his hand. It flows through central India as the fifth largest river on the Indian subcontinent. In Indian history, Kannada emperor from chalukya dynasty Pulakeshin II is said to have defeated emperor Harshavardhana of Kannauj on the banks of Narmada. [15][16] The Ramayana,[17] the Mahabharat, and the Puranas refer to it frequently. This Multipurpose River Valley Project envisages construction of a concrete gravity dam, 653 metres (2,142 ft) long and 92 metres (302 ft) high with gross storage capacity of the reservoir of 12.22 km3 (9,910,000 acre⋅ft) and live storage of 9.75 km3 (7,900,000 acre⋅ft) to provide an annual irrigation potential of 1,690 km2 (650 sq mi) and a generation of 1000 MW of hydropower. The source of the river is the Amarkantak hill range. The Court introduced a mechanism to monitor the progress of resettlement pari passu with the raising of the height of the dam through Grievance Redressal Authorities (GRA) in each of the party states. There is an interesting story of Narmada-Son worth reading. Towards the west of this basin, the hills draw very close but soon dwindle down. The pradaksina pilgrimage takes pilgrims from Bharuch to Amarkantak, up one bank of the river and down the other. Popular 15th-century Indian mystic and poet Kabir is said to have meditated on Kabir Chabutra, also called the platform of Kabir situated in the town of Amarkantak. The lower Narmada River Valley and the surrounding uplands, covering an area of169,900 km2 (65,598.8 sq mi) consists of dry deciduous forests. 5. [20] The Narmada Parikrama, as it is called, is considered to be a meritorious act that a pilgrim can undertake. Such fossils are found in three other villages of the district also, but they lie outside the national park. [citation needed], The importance of the Narmada River as sacred is testified by the fact that the pilgrims perform a holy pilgrimage of a parikrama or circumambulation of the river. She originated from throat of Lord Shankar. The Banger joins from the left. The third judge, SP Bharucha, dissented with the two other judges' verdict[34]. Glory of Narmada river - Word ‘Narmada ‘ means giver of pleasure in Sanskrit. Greatness of river Narmada story Namaste : Sanskrit words are used in this post, to encourage people understand the correct meaning of that word in the Sanskrit language itself. Narmada is theholiest. The banks are high between the layers of old alluvial deposits, hardened mud, gravels of nodular limestone and sand. 4. ―The Criterion: An International Journal in English 3.3 (Sep 2012). In compliance of the Environmental Action Plan for the Narmadasagar and Omkareswar HEPs, as per the recommendations of the Wildlife Institute of India three new protected areas may be created, which are, a) the Narmada National Park (496.70 km2), b) the Surmanya Sanctuary (126.67 km2) and c) Omkareshwar Sanctuary (119.96 km2) comprising a total area of 788.57 km2 (304.47 sq mi). 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