Current Affairs 19 July 2026

•Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary inaugurated the 68.80 km Belwa-Minapur Link Channel (Belwadhar) in Sheohar on 19 July 2026, built at a cost of about Rs 130.88 crore.

•It is Bihar's first completed river-interlinking project, part of the Bagmati-Burhi Gandak River Interlinking Project, diverting up to 50,000 cusecs of surplus Bagmati floodwater into the higher-capacity Burhi Gandak.

•The channel runs from Belwa Ghat (Pipra block, Sheohar) to Minapur (Muzaffarpur), adding about 1,35,000 hectares of irrigation capacity across four North Bihar districts — Sheohar, Muzaffarpur, East Champaran and Samastipur.

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19 July 2026

Bihar CM Inaugurates Belwa-Minapur Link Channel, State's First River-Linking Project

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