Farakka Dam

Japanese: ファラッカ・ダム(英語表記)Farakka Dam
Farakka Dam
A dam on the border between the states of West Bengal and Bihar in northeastern India that holds back the Ganges. It also serves as a railway and road bridge. Construction began in 1963 to increase the water volume of the Hugli River (a tributary of the Ganges), which has the port of Calcutta downstream, and to revitalize the port, whose functionality had deteriorated due to silt accumulation, and was completed in the early 1970s. At the time, Pakistan, which owned what is now Bangladesh, opposed India's unilateral changes to water use, and it became a point of contention between the two countries.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
インド北東部,西ベンガル州とビハール州との州境部でガンガー(ガンジス)川をせき止めるダム。鉄道・道路橋としても利用されている。カルカッタ港を下流にもつフグリ川(ガンガー川の分流)の水量を増大させて,沈泥の堆積により機能低下をきたした同港を再生させるため1963年に着工され,70年代初めに完成した。当時,現在のバングラデシュを領有していたパキスタンが,インドによる水利用の一方的変更に反対し,両国間の争点となった。

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