@article{Sajal Barh_2023, title={Morphometric study and watershed prioritization for soil conservation in Kalinjar micro-watersheds, Odisha}, volume={68}, url={https://ngji.in/index.php/ngji/article/view/746}, DOI={10.48008/ngji.1819}, abstractNote={<p>The detailed study of morphometry is very important to understand the hydrological comportment and characteristics of the watershed. The morphometric parameters are used for prioritization of the micro-watersheds based on WSA (weighted sum analysis) for sustainable watershed management. In this study, a collective approach of using remotely sensed DEM, topographical map and ArcGIS (10.1) has been applied to define morphometric parameters of the Kalinjar river basin, a sub-basin of Baitarani River which is prone to gully erosion. Seven micro-watersheds of Kalinjar River have been prioritized by applying the morphometric parameters and ranking them according to their liability to soil erosion. According to results, Kalinjar River is a 6<sup>th</sup> order stream having four 5<sup>th</sup> order and one 6<sup>th</sup> order sub-watershed, having a total drainage area of 506.34 km². High values of infiltration number are indicative of low infiltration which may cause high surface runoff and soil erosion. The micro-watershed prioritization implied that MW-4 (16.79% area) is an extremely vulnerable micro-watershed that requires better attention for soil and water conservation measures. The result of the prioritization shows that micro-watersheds MW-1 and MW-3 (13.33% area) are the most vulnerable micro-watersheds to erosion, micro-watersheds MW-2 and MW-5 (13.97% area) are moderately vulnerable and micro-watersheds MW-6 and MW-7 (23.16% area) are the least vulnerable to erosion.</p>}, number={4}, journal={National Geographical Journal of India }, author={Sajal Barh}, year={2023}, month={Jan.}, pages={311–323} }