River Ganga is a sacred river and treated as a Goddess among the Hindus. It has significant influence on the life of the Indians.
It is one of the longest rivers of the world and is the longest river in India. It has the largest river-Basin in India covering 8, 38,200 sq. km. It has three distinct courses of flow; the upper course, the middle course and the lower course.
The River Ganga is a complete river as it is emerging out of the Himalayas and falls into the Bay of Bengal. It has a number of tributaries like Yamuna, Ramganga, and Ghagra, etc. It has two distributaries Padma and Bhagirathi-Hooghly.
River Ganga is amongst the most favored rivers in India. This is because of her immense gifts.
- The Ganga is a perennial river as water is available throughout the year. The river has formed one of the most fertile flood plains of the world. We get the golden crops from the fertile lands on the bank of River Ganga.
- The water of River Ganga is widely used for agriculture purpose.
- The Ganga has been made national waterways of India. It is navigable up to Hardwar.
- The Ganga plain is one of the most fertile plain and is the granary of India. As the Ganga plain is a perfect plain it is developed in transport and communication.
- Our Government has initiated projects for wider utilization of kind water of River Ganga. This would bring enormous prosperity and economic development in our country.
The river has each and every type of features mainly created by a river. The Ganga is the most sacred river of India.
All these features made the river as the Ideal river of India.