The Ganga Project
The Ganga Project
Introduction
“Throwing her head in a swirl of ice spray, in pride and defiance creeping round lovingly some favoured rock to rush down joyously over the boulders hurling herself with a mighty shout over some great precipice…smiling and dancing in the morning sunlight and dark and gloomy and full of mysteries in the evening shadow, a narrow, slow and graceful stream in the winter, vast and roaring during the monsoon.”- Jawaharlal Nehru.
The Ganga is the most sacred river of the earth. The influence of the Ganga on India’s religious and cultural life is immense. From time immemorial people of this subcontinent have worshipped the river. River Ganga holds in its swirling currents the fate of several million Hindu souls.As the belief goes, a holy dip into the Ganga can wash a Hindu’s sins and possibly attainment of moksha.
Economic activities of the vast Indo-Gangetic plains are in many ways dependent on the Ganga. The river has a big place both in Hindu mythology and literature reflecting the culture and heritage of India from ancient times.
Self cleaning capacity of Ganga
Ganga is regarded by the Hindus as benign, the river of health, children and other prosperity, The purifier from the pollution of sin. It is said that the Ganga has a unique capability to kill harmful bacteria, since almost 70 percent of the harmful bacteria in the Ganga are killed within 24 hours, as compared to the other rivers. The Ganga was gifted with scientifically proven curative powers, since the radon content in the river waters had given it a remarkable germicidal quality in the Ganga water.
Rather a lot of disgusting things bobble about in the river here within inches of bathers who will assure you that some chemical property in this holy water does not allow germs to survive. And it is a fact that although all the great cholera epidemics of India, which have sometimes spread to Europe and North America, have started i n Bengal and been borne up
Introduction
“Throwing her head in a swirl of ice spray, in pride and defiance creeping round lovingly some favoured rock to rush down joyously over the boulders hurling herself with a mighty shout over some great precipice…smiling and dancing in the morning sunlight and dark and gloomy and full of mysteries in the evening shadow, a narrow, slow and graceful stream in the winter, vast and roaring during the monsoon.”- Jawaharlal Nehru.
The Ganga is the most sacred river of the earth. The influence of the Ganga on India’s religious and cultural life is immense. From time immemorial people of this subcontinent have worshipped the river. River Ganga holds in its swirling currents the fate of several million Hindu souls.As the belief goes, a holy dip into the Ganga can wash a Hindu’s sins and possibly attainment of moksha.
Economic activities of the vast Indo-Gangetic plains are in many ways dependent on the Ganga. The river has a big place both in Hindu mythology and literature reflecting the culture and heritage of India from ancient times.
Self cleaning capacity of Ganga
Ganga is regarded by the Hindus as benign, the river of health, children and other prosperity, The purifier from the pollution of sin. It is said that the Ganga has a unique capability to kill harmful bacteria, since almost 70 percent of the harmful bacteria in the Ganga are killed within 24 hours, as compared to the other rivers. The Ganga was gifted with scientifically proven curative powers, since the radon content in the river waters had given it a remarkable germicidal quality in the Ganga water.
Rather a lot of disgusting things bobble about in the river here within inches of bathers who will assure you that some chemical property in this holy water does not allow germs to survive. And it is a fact that although all the great cholera epidemics of India, which have sometimes spread to Europe and North America, have started i n Bengal and been borne up