Louhajang River

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image_caption = Louhajang River in Tangail District
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Louhajang River ( _bn. লৌহজঙ্গ নদী) is located in central Bangladesh. It branches out from the Jamuna at Baisnabbari in Tangail District. Thereafter it splits into two parts and both rhe parts meet again. It flows past Tangail town, Karotia and Jamurki before joining the Bangshi [Mazumdar, Kedarnath, "Moymonshingher Itihash O Moymonsingher Biboron", 2005, Bn icon, p. 152, Anandadhara, 34/8 Banglabazar, Dhaka. ISBN 984 802 05 X] Louhajang is linked with the Dhaleshwari [ Map of " Rivers of Bangladesh" produced by Graphosman, 55/1 Purana Paltan, Dhaka 1000.]

Until around the 80s, launches and big boats carrying merchandise used to anchor at Tangail. A road at College Para in the town was named 'Amghat' as mangoes from Rajshahi were unloaded there. Besides, the river linked shoals in the western part with rest of the district. The river started dying after the Water Development Board constructed a sluice gate near the confluence of Louhajang and Dhaleshwari rivers in 1992 under its Flood Action Plan-20. Boats stopped plying the route since then as the river lost navigability. In the subsequent years, encroachment of its banks and shore areas increased.cite web | url = http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/04/23/d70423070395.htm | title = No step yet to free Louhajang, Bairan rivers from grabbers | accessdate = 2007-12-01 | last = | first = | work = | publisher = "The Daily Star", 23 April 2007]

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