We bring to our list of Major Rivers, with their source and where they discharge into. It is also important to note that 90 per cent of India’s river discharges its water into the Bay of Bengal and the rest goes to the Arabian Sea. This list is important for Geography as a part of the General Awareness Section for all Bank exams such as IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, SBI PO, SBI Clerk, SSC CGL & other Competitive Exams.
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S. No | Name | Source | Falls into |
1 | Beas | Beas Kund, Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh | Satluj |
2 | Betwa | Vindhya Range (Kumhra village, Raisen, Madhya Pradesh) | Yamuna |
3 | Brahmaputra | Near Mansarovar Lake | Bay of Bengal |
4 | Chambal | Singar Chouri (Mhow in Indore District, Madhya Pradesh) | Yamuna |
5 | Ganga | Combined Sources | Bay of Bengal |
6 | Ghaggar | Himalayas | Near Fatehabad |
7 | Ghagra | Mapchachungo Glacier, Tibet, China | Ganga |
8 | Godavari | Brahmagiri Mountain, Tryambakeshwar (Nashik, Maharashtra) | Bay of Bengal |
9 | Indus | Glacier near Bokhar Chu in the Tibetan region of the Kailash Mountain range | Arabian Sea |
10 | Jhelum | Verinag Spring (Pir Panjal Range) | Chenab |
11 | Kaveri | Talakaveri, Kodagu, Western Ghats, Karnataka | Bay of Bengal |
12 | Kosi | Sun Kosi, Arun and Tamur form Saptakoshi (Tribenighat, Nepal) | Ganga |
13 | Krishna | Near Mahabaleswar, Jor village (Satara district, Maharashtra) | Bay of Bengal |
14 | Luni | Pushkar valley of the Aravalli Range, near Ajmer | Rann of kuchchh |
15 | Mahanadi | Sihawa town in Dhamtari district of Chhattisgarh | Bay of Bengal |
16 | Narmada | Amarkantak | Gulf of Khambat |
17 | Ravi | Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh | Chenab |
18 | Sabarmati | Aravalli Range of the Udaipur District of Rajasthan | Gulf of Khambat |
19 | Satluj | Lake Rakshastal in Tibet | Chenab |
20 | Son | Amarkantak | Ganga |
21 | Tapti | Betul District, Madhya Pradesh | Gulf of Khambat |
22 | Tungabhadra | Koodli (place where the Thunga and Bhadra rivers meet) (Koodli, Bhadravathi, Karnataka) | Krishna River |
23 | Yamuna | Yamunotri, Champasar Glacier | Ganga |
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