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The Selonia is one of the rivers the River and Delta Research Centre names as dead or drying up (2025): heavily silted, and fully or partly dry in the lean season.

Name
Selonia · সেলোনিয়া
Status
Dead or drying
Shared with
India (a river of this name, Joint Rivers Commission)
On the map
Drawn on the map
Map names
Selonia River
What the record says (2)
  • At least 79 of the 1,156 government-listed rivers have dried up or are drying up (RDRC study 'Dried Up Rivers of Bangladesh', 2025).

    Source: The Daily Star, 20 Mar 2025

  • Most of these rivers are heavily silted and dry up in the lean season, mainly because water is diverted upstream; parts of some have vanished under encroachment.

    Source: The Daily Star, 20 Mar 2025

A shared river

The Joint Rivers Commission's list of the 57 rivers that cross Bangladesh's borders has a river of this name. The RDRC list gives names only, so we cannot say it is the same river.

Shared with
India (no. 52 in the Commission's table, সেলোনিয়া)
Rises
দক্ষিণ ত্রিপুরা পাহাড়ী এলাকা, ভারত
Enters
ফেণী জেলার পরশুরাম উপজেলা
Ends
ফেণী নদী সদর উপজেলা ফেণী
Length
40 km in Bangladesh, 30 km in India; 70 km in all (approximate, as printed)
Along the border
4 km

See it in the table of 57 shared rivers

Sources for this page

  • United News of Bangladesh, 10 Apr 2025: 81 rivers vanishing across Bangladesh; study warns of ecological crisis
  • The Daily Star, 20 Mar 2025: 79 rivers dead or on deathbed: Reveals RDRC study
  • OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026: Waterways of Bangladesh (waterway=river)
  • The Business Standard (Bangla), Apr 2025: শুকিয়ে যাচ্ছে দেশের ৮১ নদী, পরিবেশগত সংকটের শঙ্কা নতুন গবেষণায়
  • Joint Rivers Commission, 2022: বাংলাদেশ - ভারত এবং বাংলাদেশ - মিয়ানমারের মধ্যে প্রবাহিত ৫৭টি আন্তঃসীমান্ত নদীর উৎপত্তিস্থল, মোট দৈর্ঘ্য, সীমান্ত বরাবর দৈর্ঘ্য, প্রস্থ, প্রবেশমুখ ও পতিতমুখ সম্বলিত প্রতিবেদন (Report on the 57 transboundary rivers between Bangladesh and India and Bangladesh and Myanmar: origin, length, border length, width, entry point and mouth)