Everything You Should Know About River Ganga

Ganga is a river situated in India which flows from south to east; the length of the river Ganga is 2,525 kilometres, and it flows on the Gangetic plain of northern India, there are several banks of the river which are situated in Nepal, and the right bank tributary is the Yamuna, the Ganga rivers also continue to flow in Bangladesh. Bangladesh people called Ganga the Padma. Further, the river is then joined by Jamuna, and the lower stream of the Ganga is known as the Brahmaputra; at devprayag, the main stem of the Ganga begins.

Lifeline 

The Ganga river gives life to millions of people in India who are living in the basin, and their daily life is dependent on the river; this river has also been very important in the past, with more than 140 species of fish, 90 species of amphibians and different kind of mammals and reptiles live in the river, Hindus and Ganga also worship the Ganga river is the goodness of Hindu culture. But recently the Ganga river has been polluted very badly by throwing up garbage in the river. It poses a life threat to the animals living in the river and  actions were taken to protect the river. The Ganga action plan was an initiative to clean up the entire river and stop polluting the river. Still, this action was a failure because it lacked government support, and the technical issue was very large.

Geographical Structure of the River

The river Ganga is situated in India, and it ends in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Ganga river is called the Padma; the Ganga river passes Uttrakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Delhi, Rajshahi division, Dhaka division, Chittagong division and Barisal division. The beginning of the main stem of the river Ganga is known as devprayag. And the mouth of the river is the Bay of Bengal, the total length of the river is 2525 kilometres, and the size of the basin is 1,016,124 kilometres square; on the left side of the river Ganga there is a total of 8 tributaries, and on the right side, there are total 11 tributaries.

Sacredness

The river Ganga is sacred to Hindus, and Ganga is considered the goddess of Hindu. They pay homage to their ancestors,  makes your hand the size of the cup and lift it toward the sun and then let it fall through their hand into the river again, on their way back to their house they also carry some amount of the river with them and use it for different kind of rituals. They say it as “Ganga Jal”.

The Course of the River

The river Ganga starts from the headwaters of the Himalayan mountains from the Gangotri glaciers in Uttarakhand state. The glacier is situated at an elevation of 12,769 feet. It starts going downstream from Bhagirathi; due to the flowing of the river Ganga there is a narrow rubbed Canyon formation.

The Population at the Basin

The basin of the river Ganga was inhabited in earlier ancient times by the human; the first-ever civilisation which settled in the basin of the river Ganga was the Harappan civilisation; they moved from the Indus river base to  Ganga river basins in the second millennium BCE, after that, it became the centre of the Maurya empire, and the Mughal empire, the first-ever European who discussed the Ganga river was megastores. This discussion came under his work which is called “indica”.

Ganga is a Source of Life

The river Ganga has become a life source for more than 400 million people who are living in the basin of the Ganga river, they rely on each and everything on the river, which includes their drinking water, food supplies and manufacturing, all over the world, the most populated base in is of the river Ganga the population density of the Ganga river is about 1000 people per square meal which is equivalent to 390 people per square kilometre. The Hindu population considered the river Ganga as the “mother Ganges”, and daily, thousands or even lakhs of people visit the river Ganga.

Conclusion

The river Ganga is situated in Asia in India, and the total length of the river is 2525 kilometres; eight flows from the Himalayas Uttarakhand to the Bay of Bengal basin; Ganga river is originated from the Gangotri glacier, which is present in the Himalayas at an elevation of 12,000 feet, and it also flows through Bangladesh and in Bangladesh the river Ganga is known as the Padma, the river Ganga is also worshipped by Hindus, and they consider river Ganga as their goddess add daily river Ganga is visited by thousands or even lakhs of people.