India is a land of rivers. Rivers are generally treated as mothers and almost every major river of India has a legend regarding its origin.
The Ganges or Ganga is the longest river of India, if we consider the total distance covered by a river within India. Two major rivers of the Indian subcontinent ? Brahmaputra and Indus ? are though longer than the Ganges, but the distances these two rivers cover within India are much shorter than that of the Ganges.
The Ganges is the most sacred river to the Hindus. The Ganges originates from Gangotri Glacier (Uttarakhand). The total length that the Ganges covers during its journey is 2,525 kilometers (1569 miles) before it discharges in the Bay of Bengal.
The Godavari, also known as 'Dakshin Ganga' ? the South Ganges, is the second longest river of India. It originates from Triambakeshwar, Nasik (Maharashtra), and travels through Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, before discharging into Bay of Bengal.
Contour bunding is a proven sustainable land management practice for mountainous areas, marginal, sloping, and hilly land where the soil productivity is very low.
It is widely adopted by the ethnic minorities of Nepal who practice the shifting cultivation system of farming.
The river which starts flowing from Himalayas on the North to southwards to empty in the Arabian sea is Indus River.
Okhla Bird Sanctuary is located in Uttar Pradesh.
Okhla Bird Sanctuary is a bird sanctuary at the Okhla barrage over Yamuna River. It is situated in Noida, Gautam Buddh Nagar district, on Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border and known as a haven for over 300 bird species.
Because Kerala is the major producer of these products.
Karst is a type of landscape that is characterized by caverns, caves, sinkholes, and underground streams. These features were all caused by erosion of the underlying rock.
Limestone type of rock usually underlies a karst landscape.
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