The Khuga River originates in the southern part of the Churachandpur district, close to the border with Chin State (Myanmar), and flows north into the Imphal Valley south of Moirang.

Its first mention is found in Cheitharol Kumbaba (Manipuri court chronicles) in the year 1712, noting a murder at "Torbung, near Khuka".

[9] The Gazetteer of Manipur, published in 1886, makes no mention of the Khuga River and uses the name "Turbung stream" for its lower course running in the Imphal Valley.

[10] Scholar Pum Khan Pau believes that the Khuga River valley might have been traversed by Manipuris for the first time in 1857, when Maharaja Chandrakirti led an expedition to Tedim (in the present day Chin State of Myanmar), then the central base of the Kamhau-Sukte tribes.

The Manipuri troops fled "in confusion" after facing the combined troops of Kamhau, Sukte and Sihzang tribes, and returned to the Imphal Valley via a previously "unknown route", which eventually formed the route of the present day Tedim Road along the Khuga River valley.

The Manipuri troops camped there for two months, and, during their return journey, arrested the Kamhau chief of Mualpi by name Go Khaw Thang.

[13] During the Kuki Rebellion of 1917–1919, the British constructed a road to Hiangtam, south of Singngat along the Khuga River valley.

[14] During World War II, the British improved the Hiangtam road and extended it to Tedim for the defence of eastern frontier of India.