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Map 1: The Alaknanda, Dhauliganga, and Rishganga river valleys, and the Nanda Devi National Park in the state of Uttarakhand Map 2: The headwaters of the Ganges showing: Rishiganga (rising from meltwater in the Nanda Devi sanctuary, top right), Dhauliganga which it meets near Tapovan; Alaknanda River, which Dhauliganga meets at Vishnuprayag; and the Ganges whose main stem begins at Devprayag ...
The Ganga Mahasabha is an Indian organization dedicated to the Ganges, founded by Madan Mohan Malaviya in 1905. After a long struggle, British India agreed on 5 November 1914 to the Ganga Mahasabha's request, recognizing that the uninterrupted flow of the Ganges is a fundamental right of Hindus.
After being hit by river bank erosion much of what was there at Panchanandapur has shifted to Chethrumahajantola. The Ganga Bhangan Pratirodh Action Nagarik Committee’s survey revealed a loss of 750 km 2 area in Kaliachak and Manikchak. 60 primary schools, 14 high schools, coveted mango orchards have gone leaving 40,000 affected families. [3]
Video of Thursday’s collapse at the temple complex in Indore in Madhya Pradesh state showed chaos afterward, with people rushing away. An excavator pulled down a wall of the decades-old temple ...
In 2011, 10 months before Tata’s coal-fired plant opened, the fishers’ group MASS filed a complaint with the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, the IFC’s internal watchdog unit. The IFC ignored its own policies by allowing Tata to exclude fishing communities from the list of people harmed by the project, the complaint said.
Rishiganga is a river in the Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India.It springs from the Uttari Nanda Devi Glacier on the Nanda Devi mountain. It is also fed from the Dakshini Nanda Devi Glacier.
In the 20th century the water table and river became polluted by polyethene waste and other hazardous substances from demolished buildings near the river banks.. The Buriganga river now ranks among the most polluted rivers in the country.
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