Kolong River

The river is so much polluted by the people. Now, the government is cleaning and digging the river to avoid the issue of flooding during the monsoon season. Not only people dispose of their dustbin and all but the govt entities like NMB and other medical wastes are also disposed of in the river.

Kolong is a small tributary of the mighty Brahmaputra.Kolong is an emotion for Nagaon people.

Beautiful view and atmosphere. Very nice place. You will get peace here.

Kolong Clean & Green
Motto: Conserve the River and it's Ecological balance.
Objectives : - - -
1. Cleaning the polluted debris from Kolong,
2. Publicize an awareness campaign to stop discharging effluents to Kolong directly. Also request our lawmakers to pass a legislation on direct discharge of effluents to Kolong.
3. Tree plantation along the river bank to maintain environmental balance and soil retention,
4. Create an environment to use Kolong as a mode of water transport,
5. Startup water sports for economy generations,
6. Emphasize on indigenous fish production and ensure availability of river dolphin and maintain it's flora and fauna...

Very beautiful river

Kolong the life line was brutely being polluted with human waste. Great people to hang with.

Nice xuti

Helpful us for using floating water 🌊

Nice one

Very good

The Water Source of The Nagaon City of Assam India.

One can get peace of mind while sitting at the bank of this river. It is surrounded by trees and one can hear voices of birds while sitting there. I really enjoyed my time at this river

Kolong is our emotion , our history , our ancestor . It gives pain seeing how it's water is getting black day by day . Must needed attention for the cleanliness of this river which is Nagaon's lifeline , represented in many Magnum opus literary as well as cultural creation from ancient times.

The kolong river is now most polluted river in kaliabor area.. the government take steps to flow again but till now no any improvement seen..

Nice seen

The river is impressive but due to the wastage the comes from the drains of the town made the water little polluted.

Nice river that I keep eyeing on it from boyhood days..

It is the life line of Nagaon town, always need to be keep clean.

A small River which flows inside the Nagaon Town.
Many Temples are built in it's bank.

The Kolong River or Kailang is a tributary of the Brahmaputra River, which diverts out from the Brahamputra river in Hatimura region of Jakhalabandha (Nagaon district, Assam, India), and meets the same at Kolongpar near Guwahati. The tributary is about 250 kilometres (160 mi) long and flows through the districts of Nagaon, Morigaon and Kamrup; on the way, several smaller streams (Diju, Misa and others) meet it. The river flows through the heart of the Nagaon urban area dividing the town into Nagaon and Haiborgaon.
Not much is known about the pre-colonial period of the river. In the colonial period, though, the river was known to be widely used for passenger and goods transport, specially because the road and rail network was undeveloped or underdeveloped during that period. That is why the British colonial administration almost established the district headquarters in Puranigudam, on the bank of the river.Until the colonial period, the Kolong river and smaller streams feeding the river were the main sources of potable water. Most of the villages were settled on their banks. People became heartily attached to the river, and as one folk tale says, it was just "Kolong" for them, they refused to say it was even a river.In those days, the river created havoc by flooding the lowland areas in the present Nagaon and Morigaon districts during the rainy season, as it received water not only from the smaller streams, but also from the overflowing Brahamaputra. Sometime in the 1960s, a major flood caused a threat to existence of the Nagaon town itself, which lies in a lowland area. The mouth of the river in Hatimura region of Jakhalabandha was permanently closed subsequently, allowing the river to carry the water only from the smaller streams to Brahamaputra. Following this, the threat of flood disappeared. However, due to lack of enough water, especially during the dry winter, the river dried almost halfway. In several places, the river presently looks like a closed pond, covered with water hyacinth. Due to the lack of current, many sand-sores were formed in and around the river. The population of flora and fauna also diminished on the river and several other water bodies.Numerous fictional and non-fictional, famous and not-so-famous articles, and poems have been written taking the river as a main subject or character. The lamous Assamese poet, the late Nabakanta Baruah Nabakanta Barua wrote a famous novel Kokadeutar Had: The Bone of (my) Grandfather, fictionalizing the river and its history.
There are several bihugeets (songs sung during Bihu) and modern Assamese songs which mention Kolong.
A view of river Kolong from Diphalu bridge in Nagaon town of Assam
The river is almost dry now and is hardly seen flowing in the dry season. Several organizations including North East Centre for Environmental Research and Development (NE-CERD) advocate the re-opening of the river-mouth for its revival. NE-CERD is said to have performed a feasibility study recently regarding such a project on their website. A committee has been formed under the leadership of Homen Borgohain to revive the river so that transportation and irrigation projects along the river valley can be started. It has been decided that a sluice gate must be installed at the mouth of the River at Hatimora, so that the flow of the river can be controlled easily.