The river also plays a major role in the agriculture, industry and climate of the state. The river is held sacred to the Hindus and it has religious significance. Major cities that stand on the banks of the Hooghly are Baharampur, Kalyani, Tribeni, Saptagram, Bandel, Hugli, Chandannagar, Srirampur, Barrackpur, Rishra, Konnagar, Uttarpara, Titagarh, Kamarhati, Agarpara, Baranagar, Howrah, Kolkata and Uluberia. Major and minor rivers that drain into the Hooghly include the Ajay, Falgu, Jalangi and Churni to the north and Rupnarayan, Mayurakshi, Damodar and Haldi to the south. The upper riparian zone of the river is called Bhagirathi while the lower riparian zone is called Hooghly. The river flows through the Rarh region, comprising the lower deltaic districts of West Bengal, to meet the Bay of Bengal. A man-made canal, built in the 1960s and early-1970s at Farakka connects the Ganges, flowing through Malda, to the Bhagirathi to bring the abundant waters of the Himalayan river to the comparatively narrow river that rises in eastern West Bengal. The main course of the Ganges then flows into Bangladesh as the Padma. It is the western distributary of the Ganges. The Hooghly River (Anglicized alternatively spelt as Hoogli or Hugli) or popularly called Ganga or Kati-Ganga in the Puranas, is a river that rises close to Giria, which lies north of Baharampur and Palashi in Murshidabad.
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