The Jamuna River

The Jamuna River is one of the three fundamental streams of Bangladesh. It is the principle distributary channel of the Brahmaputra River as it streams from India to Bangladesh. The Jamuna streams south and joins the Padma River (Poddma), close Goalundo Ghat, before meeting the Meghna River close Chandpur. It then streams into the Bay of Bengal as the Meghna River. The Brahmaputra-Jamuna is a great case of a twisted stream and is exceptionally defenseless to channel relocation and separation. It is portrayed by a system of joining channels with various sandbars encased between them. The sandbars, referred to in Bengali as burns, don't possess a stable situation. The stream stores them in one year, all the time to be wrecked later, and redeposits them in the following blustery season. The procedure of store disintegration and re-statement has been going on constantly, making it hard to absolutely outline the limit between the area of Pabna on one side and the locale of Mymensingh Tangail and Dhaka on the other. The breaking of a burn or the rise of another one is additionally a reason for much viciousness and suit. In Bangladesh, the Brahmaputra is joined by the Teesta River (or Tista), one of its biggest tributaries. The Teesta prior kept running due south from Jalpaiguri in three channels, to be specific, the Karatoya toward the east, the Punarbhaba in the west and the Atrai in the middle. The three channels conceivably gave the name to the waterway as Trisrota "had of three streams" which has been abbreviated and ruined to Teesta. Of these three, the Punarbhaba joined the Mahananda. The Atrai going through an incomprehensible damp region known as Chalan Beel joined the Karatoya and the unified stream joined the Padma (Ganges) close Jafarganj. In the damaging surges of 1787, the Teesta waterway spurned its old channel and hurrying south-east it joined the Brahmaputra. James Rennell made an overview somewhere around 1764 and 1777 and his maps are one of the most punctual genuine maps of Bengal in presence. In these maps Teesta is appeared as coursing through North Bengal in a few branches — Punarbhaba, Atrai, Karatoya, and so on. Every one of these streams consolidated drop down with the Mahananda, now the westernmost waterway in North Bengal, and taking the name of Hoorsagar at last released into the Ganges at Jafarganj, close current Goalundo. The Hoorsagar stream is still in presence, being the joined outfall of the Baral, a spill channel of the Ganges, the Atrai, the Jamuna or Jamuneswari (not the primary Jamuna through which the Brahmaputra now streams), and the Karatoya, yet as opposed to falling into the Ganges, it falls into the fundamental Jamuna, a couple of miles over its conjunction with the Padma at Goalundo. James Rennell's 1776 guide demonstrates the Brahmaputra's principle course through Jamalpur and Mymensingh and a much smaller Jamuna or Jamuneswari before a quake in 1762, and the Teesta R. streaming in 3 channels to the Ganges before a surge in 1787. Underneath the Teesta, the Brahmaputra parts into two distributary branches. The western branch, which contains most of the waterway's stream, proceeds due south as the Jamuna (Jomuna) to converge with the lower Ganges, called the Padma River (Poddma). The eastern branch, some time ago the bigger yet now much littler, is known as the lower or old Brahmaputra (Bromhoputro). It bends southeast to join the Meghna River close Dhaka. The Padma and Meghna join close Chandpur and stream out into the Bay of Bengal. This last part of the stream is called Meghna. In the past the course of the lower Brahmaputra was distinctive and went through the Jamalpur and Mymensingh areas. In a 7.5 greatness quake on April 2, 1762, the fundamental channel of the Brahmaputra at Bhahadurabad point was exchanged southwards and opened as Jamuna because of the consequence of structural inspire of the Madhupur tract. The Jamuna is a wide stream. Amid the downpours it is around 5–8 miles (8.0–12.9 km) from bank to bank. Notwithstanding amid the dry season when the waters die down, the expansiveness is not really under 2–3 miles (3.2–4.8 km). The Jamuna was a boundary in setting up an immediate street interface between capital Dhaka and northern piece of Bangladesh, also called Rajshahi Division, until 1996. This was moderated by the culmination of the Jamuna Multi-reason Bridge. It is additionally an essential conduit. It is traversable lasting through the year by vast load and traveler steamers. Prior to the Partition of Bengal in 1947, traveler steamers used to utilize up to Dibrugarh in the condition of Assam in the Indian Union. At present two steamer ship administrations connect the locale of Pabna with the areas of Mymensingh, Tangail and Dhaka. The Bangladesh Railway keeps up a ship benefit between Serajganj in Pabna and Jagannathganj in Mymensingh. The other ship benefit between Nagarbari in Pabna and Aricha in Dhaka is controlled by the C and B Department.