Special feature of river yamuna
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... The Yamuna is the longest tributary of river Ganga in the Lower Himalaya. After flowing for about 200 km in the Himalaya, it then emerges into the Indo-Gangetic plains (Rai et al., 2012) where it flows almost parallel to river Ganga and ultimately meets river Ganga at Allahabad in the state of Uttar Pradesh. While flowing in Indo- Gangetic plains, it creates a large (~69,000 km 2 ) fertile zone called Ganga-Yamuna Doab. ...
... The irrigated land area in the basin is about 12.3 million hectares. There are four irrigation canals in the basin namely, Western Yamuna canal, Eastern Yamuna canal, Agra canal and Gurgaon canal that delivers the Yamuna water to the command areas
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