Virtual Ganga Utsav
- The Ganga Utsavtook offvirtually this year on November 2 and will go on till November 4, 2020.
- The Ganga Task Force as a part of celebration conducted afforestation drives with NCC cadets.
- The Ganga Utsav is being organised by the National Mission for Clean Ganga celebrating the 12thanniversary of declaring River Ganges as National river.
- The event was organised jointly by the Ministry of Jal Shakti.
- The Ganges is the longest river of India. It flows over 2,510 km of valleys, mountains and plains.
- The Ganges originates in Gangotri Glacier as River Bhagirathi. Later it joins the Alaknanda at Devprayag and becomes the Ganges.
- The major tributaries of Ganga river are Yamuna, Gandak, Ghagra, Kali, Son and RamGanga.
- The river drains in 11 states namely Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana, West Bengal.
- The Ganges joins River Brahmaputra and flows into the Bay of Bengal as River Padma in Bangladesh.
