Okhla barrage - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Okhla barrage - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Okhla barrage (Okhla Weir and Okhla bridge)I. Mohan, 1992, Environment and Urban Development: A Critical Evaluation of Slums. is a 791 meters or roughly 800-yard long weir across Yamuna River opened in 1874. It also serves as the location of Okhla Bird Sanctuary today. It is situated 10 km to the south of New Delhi and downstream of Nizamuddin bridge at Okhla, where Agra canal originates from it.Agra Canal Modernization Project The top of barrage also serves as the Delhi-Noida carriageway of Kalindi Kunj-Mithapur road.Okhla barrage to be shut at night for 45 days., Times of India, 20 Sept 2017. Nearby later-era New Okhla Barrage is 554 meters long. Read more on Wikipedia
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