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| {{About|the river in India|the river in Namibia|Khan River}}
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| The river '''Kahn''', also known as Kanh, is a river flowing through Indore, the commercial capital of the Indian state of [[Madhya Pradesh]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Jha|first1=Bagish|title=Polluted Khan river|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/Dying-Khan-River-of-Indore-will-get-a-new-lease-of-life-as-chief-minister-Shivraj-Singh-Chouhan-on-Friday-has-ordered-to-prepare-detail-plan-for-the-cleaning-and-purification-of-Khan-River-According-to-initial-estimate-treatment-of-polluted-Khan-River-will-cost-Rs-320-crores-With-the-CM-has-also-given-his-consent-for-the-inspection-of-Khan-River-for-proposed-River-Side-Corridor-It-was-decided-in-review-meeting-of-cleaning-and-purification-of-river-/articleshow/17889179.cms|access-date=4 April 2016|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=4 January 2013}}</ref> The river does not carry freshwater, and turned into sewage during the early 90s. Efforts are being made to restore the river.
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| The river, along with the [[Saraswati River (Madhya Pradesh)|Saraswati River]], is a part of the [[Indore_Municipal_Corporation#Smart_City_Indore|Smart City Indore]] project, and a riverfront spanning 3.9 kilometres has already been developed along the river.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://smartnet.niua.org/content/e3236777-2cb8-4177-a8c1-368c02eae4a9|title="Riverfront Development – Indore"|author=[[National Institute of Urban Affairs]]|accessdate=April 4, 2021}}</ref> Both the rivers are being rejuvenated under the Smart Cities Mission.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://164.100.161.224/upload/uploadfiles/files/04_RiverFront_INDORE_Final.pdf|title=Kahn and Saraswati Riverfront Development|author=[[Smart Cities Mission]]|accessdate=April 4, 2021}}</ref>
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| | name = Kanh River
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| | name_native = Kanh, Kahn
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| | image_caption = The polluted Kanh river in Indore, 2009.
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| ==Pollution and environmental concerns==
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| Kanh has turned into a sewage dumpyard, where many industries have been dumping solid as well as liquid wastes into it, since the rapid industrialisation in the 70s.
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| As an additional load, the household drainage is also dumped into the Kahn without any purification or cleaning.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.catchnews.com/india-news/the-story-of-kahn-a-river-swallowed-by-the-spreading-city-of-indore-1486579608.html|title=The story of Kanh: A river swallowed by the spreading city of Indore|website=CatchNews.com|access-date=12 December 2018}}</ref>
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| There have been several attempts to clean the river since 1985, but none of them have materialised till date.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/Khan-river-to-get-a-new-lease-of-life/articleshow/17898817.cms|title=Kanh river to get a new lease of life - Times of India|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=12 December 2018}}</ref>
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| ==Rejunevation==
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| In 2015, the [[First Modi ministry|Narendra Modi Government]] announced [[Smart Cities Mission]]. Indore successfully qualified in Phase-1 of the [[Smart Cities Mission]], it ranked eleventh on the list released by Union Minister [[Venkaiah Naidu]] (MoUD) and is one of the first twenty cities to be developed as Smart City.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/list-of-first-20-smart-cities-under-smart-cities-mission/article8162775.ece|title=List of first 20 smart cities under Smart Cities Mission|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=February 16, 2016}}</ref> The Smart City Indore mission was widely appreciated for the efforts put by the government in citizen engagement.
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| Under the mission, an amount of Rs 660 crores has been spent as of 2020 on Kanh and Saraswati riverfront development marking the completion of five out of eight stages of the riverfront's development.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/indore/smart-city-spends-rs-660-cr-in-indores-development|title="Smart City spends Rs 660 cr in Indore's development"|publisher=[[The Free Press Journal]]|accessdate=April 4, 2021}}</ref>
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| ==Source==
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| The Kanh rises from the Kakri Bardi hills which is also the source of the [[Shipra River]].
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| Kanh later joins Shipra, which further joins into Chambal, then Yamuna and finally into the Ganga river.
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| ==See also==
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| * [[Fair river sharing]]
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| * [[List of rivers by discharge]]
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| * [[List of rivers by length]]
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| * [[List of rivers of India]]
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| ==References==
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| [[Category:Rivers of India]]
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| [[Category:Rivers of Madhya Pradesh]]
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