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Ganga Utsav - 2020
November 5 , 2020
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- 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.
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