 The canal is administritatively divided into the Upper Ganges Canal from Haridwar to Aligarh, with some branches, and the Lower Ganges Canal which
constitutes several branches below Aligarh.The Upper Ganges canal is the original "Ganges Canal", which starts at the
Bhimgoda Barrage near Har ki Pauri at
Haridwar, traverses Meerut and Bulandshahr and continues to Nanau in
Aligarh district, where it bifurcates into the
Kanpur and Etawah branches.A channel from a barrage at Narora intersects the canal system
48 km downstream from Nanau, and continues past the Sengar River and Sersa River, past Shikohabad in Mainpuri district to become the Bhognipur branch which was opened in 1880.