A rafting expedition organised by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) to propagate the message of “clean Ganga” was flagged off on Friday.
It started from Devprayag in Tehri district, which is the place of confluence of river Bhagirathi and river Alaknanda after which they flow as one river — the Ganga.
A 46-member ITBP team, headed by the ITBP Commandant Surendra Khatri, will pass through Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand and conclude at Gangasagar in West Bengal on December 12.
Flagging off the expedition, Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Uma Bharati, said: “uninterrupted flow is necessary for the Ganga to be clean.... Hydroelectric power projects should be of the ‘run-of-the-river’ type to allow free flow of the river.”
