The Hirakud dam, the longest earthen dam in the country, was built in 1957 at the confluence of the Mahanadi and Ib rivers, making it India’s first post-independence major multi-purpose river valley project
The toll has reached to 8 in the capsizing incident in the upper streams of Mahanadi river in Jharsuguda, after the rescue personnel fished out 5 more bodies
a country boat carrying around 50 people from a village of Chhatisgarh’s Raigarh district capsized just a few hundred metres away from the river bank in Odisha’s Jharsuguda district