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The Ganges is not just a river
in India, it is considered as mother. The holy mother who purifies a human being
by taking away all his sins. A person can wash away all his sins just by taking
a dip in the holy Ganges.
Here goes the famous line “If you
have belief, I am your mother Ganges and if you don’t, I am just a flowing river".
So the divine existence of this holy river is because people have faith and
belief in the sanctity of the river. They consider it holy, which has come to
this world to take away their pain and give them her blessings. But the sanctity
of the river is being violated, and there are several factors responsible for
this. The several challenges or confronting the holy Ganges are Pollution,
Privatization of Ganges Water, Construction of Tehri Dam etc.
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DISCUSSING THE ISSUE AT HAR-KI-PAURI IN HARIDWAR |
The holy water of this holy river is
getting polluted. This is happening because of the irresponsibility of
the government and the people. All sorts of wastes i.e. industrial
waste, commercial waste, household waste, sewage waste is being dumped
into the river which makes the water of the river polluted.
Now is the time when we have to think
that when the very heart and soul of India, the Indian culture, the Indian
tradition is getting polluted, what is it that we can do to stop this
pollution and to stop the violation of the sacredness of holy Ganges. |
