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6 unusual facts about Damodar


2007 South Asian floods

The Damodar and Kangsabati rivers overflowed their banks in late June, but levels finally began to fall as of 6 August.

Bhavashankari

In her youth Bhavashankari used to go for hunting in the forest adjoining Damodar and Ron.

The Pathans emboldened by Chaturbhuj's support started moving towards Bashuri, crossing the Damodar near Pursurah.

At that time the Rudranarayan, the king of Bhurishrestha was passing by in a sip along the Damodar towards Kasthasangara.

After marriage, Bhavashankari moved to the newly built palace on Damodar, just outside the fort of Garh Bhawanipur.

Stephen Hector Taylor-Smith

Stephen Smith also effected the world’s first livestock transport when on 29 June 1935, a rocket carried a cock and hen together with 189 rocketgrams across the river Damodar.


Abhas Chatterjee

Their only son Pathikrit died in an accident while bathing in the Damodar during a college excursion.

Barakar River

DVC’s second dam was across the Konar River, a tributary of the Damodar, in Hazaribagh district, and the third was across the Barakar at Maithon in Dhanbad district of Bihar, now Jharkhand.

Bhojudih railway station

Bhojudih is a railway station on the Adra-Netaji SC Bose Gomoh branch line, just south of the Damodar and links to Sudamdih, north of the Damodar, and on the Jharia Coalfield rail network.

Chota Nagpur Plateau

The western portion of Hazaribagh plateau constitutes a broad watershed between the Damodar drainage on the south and the Lilajan and Mohana rivers on the north.

D. D. Dabke

D. Dabke or Dattatraya Damodar Dabke was an actor in the first ever Indian full length silent film Raja Harishchandra, directed by Dadasaheb Phalke in 1913.

Kujang, Odisha

Dr. Damodar Rout is currently the Cabinet Minister and MLA of Paradip.

Margao

The Parvatibai Chowgule College, Shri Damodar College of Commerce and Economics and Shri Damodar Higher Secondary School Of Science and R.M.S Higher Secondary School.

Piyush Ranade

Piyush has done a role of Vijay in Kedar Shinde's much awaited movie Shrimant Damodar Pant along with Bharat Jadhav.

Ramgarh Cantonment

Rajrappa Temple: 28 km from Ramgarh Cantonment is a panoramic view of the merging of river Bhairavi and Damodar, near Mata Chhinmastika Temple visited by lakhs of visitors and pilgrims every year.

Sudamdih railway station

Sudamdih is a railway station on the Jharia Coalfield rail network, just north of the Damodar and links to Bhojudih, south of the Damodar, and on the Adra-Netaji SC Bose Gomoh branch line.

Wardha Valley Coalfield

Gondwana coals occur in valleys of rivers such as Damodar, Mahanadi, Godavari and Wardha.


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