Churni River

Churni River
A stretch of Churni river, Radhanagar-Kalinarayanpur
Native nameচূর্ণী (Bengali)
Location
CountryIndia
StateWest Bengal
CitiesRanaghat
Physical characteristics
SourceMathabhanga
 • locationMajhdia
MouthBhagirathi
 • location
Mangaldwip
Length53 km (33 mi)

The Churni River is a distributary of the Mathabhanga River and a tributary of the Hooghly River, flowing through Nadia district in West Bengal, India. The Mathabhanga River itself is a distributary of the Padma River. The Mathabhanga-Churni is one of the three Nadia Rivers [1]—Bhagirathi, Jalangi, and Mathabhanga. The Mathabhanga-Churni system is also an Indo-Bangladesh transboundary river.[2]

  1. ^ Hunter WW (1875). A Statistical account of Bengal. Vol. II. Trubner & Co. London. P: 18-33
  2. ^ Sarkar B, Islam A and Das BC (2020). Anthropo-Footprints on Churni River: A River of Stolen Water. In Das et al. (2020) eds. Anthropogeomorphology of Bhagirathi-Hooghly River System in India. Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN (eBook) 9781003032373. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003032373