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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Saryu Canal National Project in Balrampur district of Uttar Pradesh.

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• The project involves interlinking of five rivers – Ghaghara, Saryu, Rapti, Banganga and Rohin.
• The Saryu Canal National Project starts from the Saryu Barrage at Bahraich.
• It will benefit nine districts in Eastern Uttar Pradesh – Bahraich, Shravasti, Balrampur, Gonda, Siddharthnagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Gorakhpur and Maharajganj.

Saryu

• The Sarayu is a river that originates at a ridge south of Nan kida Kot mountain in Bageshwar district in Uttarakhand
• It discharges into the Sharda River at Pancheshwar at the India—Nepal border.

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