Lord Ganesh

Shastro ke anushar, jo vaykti ek pipal, ek neem, dus imli, teen kaith, teen bail, teen avala aur panch aam ke vrichs lagate hai, to us vaykti ko SWARG ki prapti hoti hai. Uske sare paap

Ganga

The Hindu priest slowly descends the steep stairway of the ghat to the muddied waters of the River Ganga (Ganges). "The day does not begin for me without my holy dip," explains Dr. Veer Bhadra Mishra, the mahant (high priest) of Sankat Mochan Temple in Varanasi.

But he performs the ritual with a heavy heart: he is also a professor of hydraulic engineering who knows just how polluted the Ganga really is. The level of contaminants at various points along the river in Varanasi-the holiest of Indian cities-can be simply terrifying.

That is why Mishra banded together with a group of citizens, back in 1982, to form the Sankat Mochan Foundation (SMF) at Tulsi Ghat in Varanasi (Banaras). In turn, it launched the grassroots Campaign for a Clean Ganga (Swatcha Ganga Abhiyaan). This campaign has brought the plight of the polluted waterway to the attention of the nation and the world.

facts on river गंगा

GANGA AT A GLANCE Length: 2,525 sq.km Source: Gaumukh (Gangotri glacier) at 4,100 metres above MSL. Ganga basin: more than one million sq.km (1,060,000 sq.km) Drainage area: 861,404 sq.km (26.2 per cent of India's total geographical area) Break up: Uttar Pradesh: 294,413 sq.km Madhya Pradesh: 201,705 sq.km Bihar: 144,410 sq.km Rajasthan: 107,382 sq.km West Bengal: 72,010 sq.km Haryana: 34,200 sq.km Himachal Pradesh: 5,799 sq.km Delhi: 1,485 sq.km TOTAL: 861,404 sq.km Annual flow: 468.7 billion cubic metres (25.2 per cent of India's total water resources) Flow at Rishikesh: 27 billion cubic metres of water. Important stations on the Ganga and distance from source: Rishikesh 250 km Balawali 330 km Garhmukteshwar 440 km Kachla Bridge 510 km Fatehgarh 670 km Kanpur 800 km Allahabad 1050 km Mirzapur 1170 km Varanasi 1295 km Buxar 1430 km Patna 1600 km Baharampur 2175 km Nabadwip 2285 km

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