 The Kangsabati Project was started in 1956 as part of the Indian Second Five-year Plan to provide water to of land in the districts of Midnapur(erstwhile), Bankura, and Hooghly.It involves irrigation land using water from the Kangsabati River, as well as the Shilabati and the Bhoirobbanki rivers.As part of the project, a high and long dam, Mukutmanipur Dam, was constructed at Mukutmanipur on the river Kangsabati and Kumari about 3.2 km upstream of their Confluence.