Ministry of Jal Shakti launches ‘Ganga Aamantran Abhiyan’
- Ministry of Jal Shakti has launched ‘Ganga Aamantran Abhiyan’ under the Namami Gange Programme to raft across the entire stretch of over 2500 km of the Ganga River.
- The ‘Ganga Aamantran Abhiyan’ is an open-water rafting and kayaking expedition on the Ganga River to be held between 10th October 2019 to 11 November 2019.
- It will start from at Devprayag and culminating at Ganga Sagar covering the entire stretch of over 2500 Kilometers of the Ganga River.
- The purpose is to spread the message of River Rejuvenation and Water Conservation on a massive scale.
- The programme will cover the five Ganga basin states including Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal with stops at Rishikesh, Haridwar, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, Sonepur and Kolkata.
- The expedition is led by Wing Commander Paramvir Singh from Indian Air Force. He is the only person to have swum the entire length of Ganga from Devprayag to Gangasagar in 2015