page_title: Teesta River
section_title: Other dams
hierarchical_section_title: Teesta River / Other dams
caption_attribution_description: English: Tista Barrage on the river Tista at Dalia, Nilphamari, Bangladesh. (01.03.2019)
context_page_description: Teesta River, is a 315 km long river that rises in the eastern Himalayas, flows through the Indian states of Sikkim and West Bengal through Bangladesh and enters the Bay of Bengal. It drains an area of 12,540 km².
  It forms the border between Sikkim and West Bengal. In India, it flows through Darjeeling district and the cities of Rangpo, Jalpaiguri and Mekhliganj. It joins the Jamuna River at Fulchhari in Bangladesh.
context_section_description: The Teesta Barrage is a major irrigation project in Bangladesh, in Lalmonirhat District. Construction started 1979 and was completed in 1997–98.
caption: Teesta Barrage on the river Teesta, Bangladesh.
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