Rivers and Lakes of India

Dhauliganga meets Alaknanda at Vishnuprayag. For exams remember Panch Prayag with river confluences.

Nandakini meets Alaknanda at Nandprayag. For exams use the name link to remember Nandakini and Nandprayag.

Pindar River meets Alaknanda at Karnaprayag. For exams remember Pindar and Karnaprayag as a pair.

Bhagirathi and Alaknanda meet at Devprayag and are then called Ganga. For exams remember the name Ganga begins from Devprayag.

Yamuna is considered to originate from the Yamunotri glacier region. For exams remember the sources of Ganga and Yamuna separately.

Son comes from the southern plateau region and is a right bank tributary of Ganga. For exams keep Son separate from Ghaghara and Kosi.

Ghaghara Gandak and Kosi are Himalayan left bank tributaries of Ganga. For exams remember their Nepal Himalaya link.

Kosi is linked with channel shifting and floods due to heavy silt and low gradient. For exams connect Kosi with floods in Bihar.

Ravines in the Chambal region form due to gully erosion and water erosion. For exams also remember Chambal as a tributary of Yamuna.

Betwa and Ken are Yamuna tributaries linked with the Bundelkhand region. For exams remember river and region together.

Rihand is a tributary of the Son and Son is linked with the Ganga system. For exams also remember Rihand Dam.

Chenab is formed by the confluence of Chandra and Bhaga. For exams remember Chenab as an important river of the Indus system.

Jhelum River is linked with the Wular Lake area of Kashmir. For exams remember Jhelum Wular and Kashmir together.

Jhelum Chenab Ravi Beas and Sutlej are major rivers of the Indus system. For exams study the five rivers of Punjab together.

Brahmaputra is known as Tsangpo in Tibet and Dihang in Arunachal. For exams remember the sequence of names.

After Dihang Lohit and Dibang meet the river is called Brahmaputra in Assam. For exams remember northeastern river confluences.

Majuli is a river island linked with the Brahmaputra River in Assam. For exams connect Majuli with river island and Assam.

Subansiri Manas and Lohit are important tributaries of the Brahmaputra system. For exams study rivers of Northeast India separately.

Teesta is linked with Sikkim and North Bengal and is studied in the Brahmaputra system. For exams connect it with the Eastern Himalaya.

Barak River later connects with Surma and Kushiyara channels in Bangladesh. For exams remember Barak Valley and Northeast India.

Wainganga and Wardha are linked with the Pranhita system which is a large tributary system of Godavari. For exams remember Godavari tributaries in groups.

Indravati is a tributary of the Godavari system and Chitrakoot Falls is on it. For exams remember river waterfall state matching.

Manjira Sabari and Pranhita are tributaries of the Godavari system. For exams keep Godavari system separate from Krishna system.

Tungabhadra is formed by Tunga and Bhadra and is a tributary of Krishna. For exams identify the confluence from the name itself.

Ghataprabha Malaprabha and Bhima are tributaries of the Krishna system. For exams study Krishna tributaries in a table.