Pahuj River is a river flowing through the city ofJhansi,Uttar Pradesh,India. It has been referred as thePushpavati in religious texts. It is a small and dry river which passes through theIndian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute,Jhansi.[1]
It flows through the region of Bundelkhand region and plays a major part in dividing the border of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Generally it flows at a heavy water level outside its banks in the monsoon season but drastically can also go dry or with very little flow in the summers.
Nowadays many electric plants in Uttar pradesh are discharging its waste in it due to which the water of the river getting contaminated day by day and alsoillegal mining at the banks of it is causing its state deteriorating day by day. The river is approx 195 km from its origin to mouth. But it is dry for most part. However, in 2024, the Pahuj river remained in spate for three days.[2]
The then Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti adopted the Pahuj river in 2014, but it is fighting for its existence as huge water hyacinth weed and dumping of other untreated sewage. Many encroachments on the banks too are harming the river.[3]
It originates near the hills of Jhansi or inTikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh. It is a tributary of theSindh River, which joins theYamuna River inEtawah, just after theChambal River confluence with the Yamuna river. At Pachnada, the Sindh River meets four other rivers,- Yamuna, Chambal, Kunwari and Pahuj, in a rare spectacle.[4]
Due to the construction of Pahuj dam near Jhansi, the river has increased its water level.
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