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.
