Chiknai River

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Another name Dangha.
Chiknai River is situated in Bangladesh. It emerges in the beels west of Chatmohor in Pabna District.

Early history

The Chiknai gets an overabundance of surge water from the Padma amid the downpours and falls into the Baral close to the town of Faridpur in Pabna area. It is safe in the blustery season, and in the dry season it frames a decent fishery, supplying Pabna and different spots with fish.

The Jamuna frames the eastern limit of the area for a length of 130 kilometers (80 mi), isolating Pabna from the regions of Mymensingh, Tangail and Dhaka. The present channel of the Jamuna is of relatively late starting point and is because of the redirection of the Brahmaputra through the Jenai which was a little stream, pretty much, at the present position of the Jamuna.

At the point when Rennell assembled his guide of Bengal towards the end of the eighteenth century, the standard of the Brahmaputra twisted pointedly round the scope of the Garo Hills and streamed in a south-easterly heading over the region of Mymensingh to join the Meghna just beneath Bhairab Bazar. About the start of the nineteenth century the Brahmaputra having raised its quaint little inn its speed was no more ready to hold its own particular course against the Meghna said above. So it exited its old channel and broke toward the west, catching the waters of the Teesta in transit and cut out another channel for itself, which is essentially its present channel.

Indeed, even toward the start of the nineteenth century, the first channel through the Mymensingh area had happened to auxiliary significance, and right now, however it bears the name of Brahmaputra, it has dwindled into an insignificant conduit traversable just amid the blustery season. In 1850 British wayfarer Joseph Dalton Hooker, while setting out to Dhaka, portrayed this incredible change as takes after:

A couple of miles past Pabna we went from a slender waterway without a moment's delay into the standard of the Burrampooter at Jaffarganj; our maps had driven us to expect that it streamed completely seventy miles toward the eastwards in this scope; and we were astonished to hear that inside the most recent a quarter century principle body of that stream had moved its course so far toward the westbound. This adjustment was not affected by the steady working westbound of the standard, yet by the old eastern channel so quickly silting up as to be presently unnavigable, while the Jammul (the waterway alluded to is the Jamuna) which gets the Teesta and which is along the side associated by branches with the Burrampooter turn out to be therefore more extensive and more profound, and in the long run the chief stream.

References

Rahman, Md Habibur (2012). "Chatmohar Upazila". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.

"AL men infringe on Pabna stream". The Daily Star. 15 February 2014. Recovered 15 October 2014.