インド北東部にあるダモダー川。その多くの支流、特にボカロ川とコナールとともに、中央南部のビハール州のチョタナグプール高原にそびえています。それは西ベンガルを通って368マイル（592 km）の一般的に東向きのコースをたどり、コルカタ（カルカッタ）の南西にあるHugli（フーリー）川に合流します。
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The Damodar valley along the Bihar–West Bengal border includes India’s most important coal- and mica-mining fields and has long been an area of active industrial development. The major coalfields (Jharia, Raniganj, and Giridih) are mostly open-pit and are easily mined. The Damodar Valley Corporation, which began work in 1948, constructed four multipurpose dams to form a series of reservoirs—Tilaiya, Maithon, Konar, and Panchet Hill. Also included is the Durgapur diversionary barrage (dam) and an 80-mile (130-km) navigation canal linking the coalfields with the Hugli-Kolkata industrial complex. The project provides for flood control, hydroelectricity, coal-fired thermal power plants, irrigation of about 950,000 acres (385,000 hectares) chiefly in West Bengal, afforestation, fish breeding, recreation, and the general development of agriculture and industry throughout the valley, which experienced a great influx of people during the 20th century. Numerous towns, including Dhanbad, Jharia, and Sindri, are connected by a dense rail and road network.
