Ganga

The river Ganga is a holy river flowing through the vast northern plains of India. It originates from Gangotri glacier in himalyas and is called Bhagirathi. Afterwards, it joins the river Alaknanda at Devprayag where it gets its name Ganga. It is a holy river and it is very much worshipped in India. 

Course of River.

The river originates from the Gangotri glacier in Himalayas. It joins the Alaknanda river in Devprayag. It enters the plains in Haridwar then it flows through the northern plains. It has mainly eleven tributaries namely Yamuna, Ramganga, Gomti, Ghaghara, Gandak, Kosi, Mahananda, Tamsa, Son, Punpun and Damodar. On reaching it's mouth it distributes into two distributaries one is Hooghly which goes in west bengal and another is Padma whoch goes in Bangladesh. River Padma later joins the Brahmaputra and returns in India. Rivers Ganga and Brahmaputra together make the world's largest delta called the Sunderban delta and finally fall into the Bay of Bengal.

Mythological origin

In indian mythology, Ganga was brought to Earth by the worship of a saint named Bhagitrath. He worshipped Lord Vishnu to allow Ganga to come to the Earth and on the advice of Lord Vishnu he also worshipped Lord Shiva for holding river Ganga in his hair and reducing her speed as the speed and volume of Ganga was so high that it could destroy the whole Earth. In the image you can see Lord Shiva retarding Ganga river and Bhagirath worshipping him.

Civilisations and settlements

River Ganga has been habitated by human societies since thousands of years ago. The oldest continuously inhabited city of Varanasi is also situated on the banks of river Ganga. Some of the important cities on Gangetic basin are Varanasi, Haridwar, Rishikesh, Kashi etc. The capital of India, New Delhi, is situated on the bank of river Yamuna which is a tributary of Ganga. The longest tributary of Ganga is Yamuna which meets it at Sangam, Prayagraj.

Varanasi

Economy

The Ganga river provides water to about one-third population of India. It also provides water for irrigation in a major part of north India. More than half of the agricultural produce of north India is only possible due to Ganga river.

Namami Gange

Namami Gange was a project started in june 2014 by our hounorable prime minister Mr. Narendra Damodar Das Modi. It is a series of 221 projects out of which 58 have been completed till date and more have to be done.

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