It is being organised by the National Mission for Clean Ganga celebrating the 12th anniversary 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.
The Ganges originates in Gangotri Glacier as River Bhagirathi.
Later it joins the Alaknanda at Devprayag in Uttarakhand and becomes the Ganges.
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.