Kanh River: Difference between revisions

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'''Kanh''' is a river flowing through [[Indore]], the largest city in the Indian state of [[Madhya Pradesh]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=जागरण स्पेशल: इंदौर ने लिखी नदी पुनर्जीवन की नई कहानी |url=https://www.jagran.com/madhya-pradesh/indore-kahn-and-saraswati-river-revived-in-indore-jagran-special-22543336.html |access-date=2023-04-18 |website=Dainik Jagran |language=hi}}</ref> The river started carrying sewage in the early 1990s. Several attempts have been made to clean the river, yet it remains polluted.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-03-05 |title=Madhya Pradesh to form task force to clean Kanh & other rivers |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/state-to-form-task-force-to-clean-kanh-other-rivers/articleshow/68262043.cms |access-date=2023-04-24 |issn=0971-8257}}</ref>

The river, along with the [[Saraswati River (Madhya Pradesh)|Saraswati River]], is a part of the [[Indore_Municipal_CorporationIndore Municipal Corporation#Smart_City_IndoreSmart City Indore|Smart City Indore]] project, and a riverfront spanning 3.9 kilometres has already been developed along the river.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://smartnet.niua.org/content/e3236777-2cb8-4177-a8c1-368c02eae4a9|title="Riverfront Development – Indore"|author=[[National Institute of Urban Affairs]]|accessdate=April 4, 2021}}</ref> Both the rivers are being rejuvenated under the Smart Cities Mission.<ref>{{cite web|urlname=http"://164.100.161.224/upload/uploadfiles/files/04_RiverFront_INDORE_Final.pdf|title=Khan1" and Saraswati Riverfront Development|author=[[Smart Cities Mission]]|accessdate=April 4, 2021}}</ref>

The name 'Kanh' is a cognate of [[Krishna|Kanha]], a major hindu deity, acquired after [[Schwa deletion in Indian languages|schwa deletion]].

Corruptions of the name include Kahn and Khan, often used due to being easier to speak.

Kanh has faced massive pollution due to the flow of sewage from industries. As an additional load, the household drainage is also dumped into the Kanh without any purification or cleaning.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.catchnews.com/india-news/the-story-of-kahn-a-river-swallowed-by-the-spreading-city-of-indore-1486579608.html|title=The story of Kanh: A river swallowed by the spreading city of Indore|website=CatchNews.com|access-date=12 December 2018}}</ref>

In 2015, the Indian government announced the [[Smart Cities Mission]]. Indore successfully qualified in its Phase-1, and it ranked eleventh in the list released by Union Minister [[Venkaiah Naidu]] (MoUD), becoming one of the first twenty cities to be developed as a 'Smart City'.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/list-of-first-20-smart-cities-under-smart-cities-mission/article8162775.ece|title=List of first 20 smart cities under Smart Cities Mission|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=February 16, 2016}}</ref> An amount of Rs 39 crores had been spent till 2020 on the Kanh and Saraswati riverfront development, marking the completion of five out of eight stages of the riverfront's development.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/indore/smart-city-spends-rs-660-cr-in-indores-development|title="Smart City spends Rs 660 cr in Indore's development"|publisher=[[The Free Press Journal]]|accessdate=April 4, 2021}}</ref>

Kanh rises from the Kakri Bardi hills which is also the source of the [[Shipra River]]. It later joins [[Saraswati River (Madhya Pradesh)|Saraswati]], which further joins Shipra, then [[Chambal River|Chambal]], then [[Yamuna]] and finally into the [[Ganga river]].<ref name=":0" />