Chitroptala river

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The Chitroptala river is a river in Orissa state, India. It is a sub-river of the Mahanadi, situated in both Kendrapara and Cuttack districts.

The river as distributary of Mahanadi starts from Shishua/Salipur (20 km downstream towards kendrapara). Within six to eight kilometres again it subdevides in to Chitroptala (main river) and Luna (distributary). Luna being the deeper one carries almost sixty percent of water of the main river in dry season. In rainy season the equation changes when there is mammoth amount of rain water to be evacuted. Chitroptla flows eastward approximately sixty kilometres and near Paradeep it joins with its tributary river Luna. It merges into the Bay of Bengal near Paradeep. It has six bridges across it in sixty kilometres. The bridges are at Shishua, Nemala, Narendra pur, Gardapur, atkura and finally near Haldia-Gada.

The river itself is quite famous for sandy bed, Jhaun forest, local-Myth and pilgrimage prospects. Nemala is quite famous in coastal Odisha for Malika-bachana (a purana) which was epicted by the famous saint Achhutyananda five hundred years ego, since then the place is famous as Nemala-Bata. Another place is Kuda-Nagari at its bank, which famous for Magha-Mela. In the Hindu month of Magha, thousands of pilgrims from attack and kendrapara district take the holy-dip in the river and offer tarpan to their ancestors (pitrupurush). Other famous places along its course are Gardpur (revenue office), Patkura (police-station) in kendrapara district.

The river is useful to nearby villagers to cultivate winter crops and as well as summer crops. Surfaced roads have been constructed on the river embankments on both sides, which helps thousand of villagers to travel from their village to Cuttack/Bhubaneswar/Salipur. However in rainy season the river bring havoc to the nearby villages in terms of heavy flood. Almost in every rainy season, the river brings trauma to the villages downstream.

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