ITO barrage - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
ITO barrage - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The ITO barrage, also Indraprastha barrage and ITO Bridge,I. Mohan, 1992, Environment and Urban Development: A Critical Evaluation of Slums. is a 552 meter barrage on Yamuna River, top of which also serves as the bridge on the Paharganj-Gaziabad Vikas marg.Construction of bridges over river yamuna . Yamuna flows for 48 km in Delhi, including 22 km from Wazirabad barrage where it enters Delhi to Okhla barrage after which it enters Haryana.[spaenvis.nic.in/index1.aspx?lid=2284&mid=1&langid=1&linkid=550 Yamuna Flood Plain - Envis Center on Human Settlement's] 30 June 2016.Joginder Singh, 2010, India, Democracy and Disappointments, Page 504. Sharad K. Jain, Pushpendra K. Agarwal, Vijay P. Singh, 2007, Hydrology and Water Resources of India, Page 348. Upstream barrage from ITO barrage in Delhi is Wazirabad barrage (north) and downstream is Okhla barrage (south).Okhla barrage to be shut at night for 45 days., Times of India, 20 Sept 2017.1967, Annual Research Memoirs, Central Water and Power Research Station (India)] Yamuna has a total of 6 barrages, from north-west to south-east, Dakpathar Barrage (Uttarakhand), Hathni Kund Barrage (172km from Yamunotri origin, replaced the older defunct Tajewala Barrage in Haryana), Wazirabad barrage (244km from Hathnikund to north Delhi), ITO barrage (central Delhi), Okhla barrage (22km from Wazirabad to south Delhi, "New Okhla barrage" is later-era new barrage) and Mathura barrage (at Gokul, Uttar Pradesh).Bharati Chaturvedi, 2010, Finding Delhi: Loss and Renewal in the MegacityML Ahmed, Analysis of Discharge and Gauge-Level Data at Old Railway Bridge, Int'l Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Energy and Manufacturing Engineering (ICAEME’2014), 9-10 June 2014, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).Bharati Chaturvedi, 2010, Finding Delhi: Loss and Renewal in the Megacity, Page 78. Read more on Wikipedia
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