N.K. Chauhan 
Rivers are extremely useful for human, they provided early men with water to drink and fish to eat. Here is a list of important cities on river banks in India.
| City | River | State |
|---|---|---|
| Gangakhed | Godavari | Maharashtra |
| Agra | Yamuna | Uttar Pradesh |
| Leh | Indus | Ladakh |
| Ahmedabad | Sabarmati | Gujarat |
| Allahabad | At the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati | Uttar Pradesh |
| Ayodhya | Sarayu | Uttar Pradesh |
| Badrinath | Alaknanda | Uttarakhand |
| Govindghat | Alaknanda | Uttarakhand |
| Gaurikund | Mahanadi | Odisha |
| Rambara | Mahanadi | Odisha |
| Gupta Kashi | Mahanadi | Odisha |
| Cuttack | Mahanadi | Odisha |
| Baranagar | Ganges | West Bengal |
| Brahmapur | Rushikulya | Odisha |
| Chhatrapur | Rushikulya | Odisha |
| Bhagalpur | Ganges | Bihar |
| Kolkata | Hooghly | West Bengal |
| New Delhi | Yamuna | Delhi |
| Dibrugarh | Brahmaputra | Assam |
| Ferozpur | Sutlej | Punjab |
| Guwahati | Brahmaputra | Assam |
| Haridwar | Ganges | Uttarakhand |
| Hyderabad | Musi | Telangana |
| Ramagundam | Godavari | Telangana |
| Jabalpur | Narmada | Madhya Pradesh |
| Kanpur | Ganges | Uttar Pradesh |
| Kota | Chambal | Rajasthan |
| Jammu | Tawi | Jammu & Kashmir |
| Jaunpur | Gomti | Uttar Pradesh |
| Patna | Ganges | Bihar |
| Srinagar | Jhelum | Jammu & Kashmir |
| Surat | Tapi (Tapti) | Gujarat |
| Bhubaneswar | Mahanadi | Odisha |
| Ludhiana | Satluj | Punjab |
| Varanasi | Ganges | Uttar Pradesh |
| Nasik | Godavari | Maharashtra |
| Vijayawada | Krishna | Andhra Pradesh |
| Vadodara | Vishwamitri | Gujarat |
| Mathura | Yamuna | Uttar Pradesh |
| Mirzapur | Ganga | Uttar Pradesh |
| Auraiya | Yamuna | Uttar Pradesh |
| Etawah | Yamuna | Uttar Pradesh |
| Bangalore | Vrishabhavathi | Karnataka |
| Farrukhabad | Ganges | Uttar Pradesh |
| Rangpo | Teesta | Sikkim |
| Rajkot | Aji | Gujarat |
| Gaya | Falgu (Neeranjana) | Bihar |
| Fatehpur | Ganges | Uttar Pradesh |
| Kannauj | Ganges | Uttar Pradesh |
| Mangalore | Netravati, Gurupura | Karnataka |
| Bhadravathi | Bhadra | Karnataka |
| Hospet | Tungabhadra | Karnataka |
| Bagalkot | Ghataprabha | Karnataka |
| Himmatnagar | Hathmati | Gujarat |
| Gwalior | Chambal | Madhya Pradesh |
| Gorakhpur | Rapti | Uttar Pradesh |
| Lucknow | Gomti | Uttar Pradesh |
| Shuklaganj | Ganges | Uttar Pradesh |
| Chakeri | Ganges | Uttar Pradesh |
| Malegaon | Girna River | Maharashtra |
| Patan | Saraswati | Gujarat |
| Pune | Mula, Mutha | Maharashtra |
| Madurai | Vaigai | Tamil Nadu |
| Thiruchirapalli | Kaveri | Tamil Nadu |
| Chennai | Cooum, Adyar | Tamil Nadu |
| Coimbatore | Noyyal | Tamil Nadu |
| Bharuch | Narmada | Gujarat |
| Nashik | Godavari | Maharashtra |
| Kolhapur | Panchaganga | Maharashtra |
| Nellore | Pennar | Andhra Pradesh |
| Kurnool | Tungabhadra | Andhra Pradesh |
| Nizamabad | Godavari | Telangana |
| Hajipur | Ganges | Bihar |
| Ujjain | Shipra (Kshipra) | Madhya Prades |
| Jagdalpur | Indravati | Chhattisgarh |
| Murshidabad | Hooghly | West Bengal |
| Munger | Ganges | Bihar |
| Jamalpur | Ganges | Bihar |
| Purnia | Koshi | Bihar |
| Budaun | Sot | Uttar Pradesh |
| Amaravati | Krishna | Andhra Pradesh |
