Hooghly River Hooghly River The Hooghly River ("Hugli"; Anglicized alternatively spelled "Hoogli" or "Hugli") or the Bhāgirathi-Hooghly, traditionally called 'Ganga', is an approximately distributary of the Ganges River in West Bengal, India. The Ganges splits into the Padma and the Hooghly near Giria, Murshidabad. The Padma flows eastward into Bangladesh, whereas the Hooghly flows south through West Bengal. The river flows through the Rarh region, the lower deltaic districts of West Bengal, and eventually into the Bay of Bengal. The upper riparian zone of the river is called Bhagirathi while the lower riparian zone is called Hooghly. Calcutta and Hugli-Chinsura, the headquarter
Kukule Ganga Dam which is then transferred to the national grid at the Mathugama Substation, via a long double-circuit transmission line. Kukule Ganga Dam The Kukule Ganga Dam is a gravity dam built across the Kukule River in the Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka. The run-of-river-type dam feeds an underground hydroelectric power station located approximately away, via tunnel. The gravity dam is built across the Kukule River, which is a major mid-basin tributary of the Kalu River. The dam measures and in length and height respectively, with four spillways, and a sand trap on the left-bank. Each spillway gate measures high and wide,