Question

Name the glaciers where the Ganga and the Yamuna rivers have their origin.

Answer 1

Hint: India is a land of rivers and the river system plays an important role in the lives of the people. Rivers with their tributaries are the main channel of drainage on the land surface. All the rivers have origin from Himalayan Glaciers.

Complete Answer:
India has around a hundred and thirteen river basins and three major international river systems which are the Ganga, the Indus, and the Brahmaputra River all emerging from the Himalayan glaciers. All the major rivers of India originate from the watersheds such as the Aravalli range, the Himalaya and the Karakoram ranges, or the Vindhya and the Satpura ranges. The Ganga river basin is the largest and the most important basin in India. It originates as Bhagirathi from the Gaumukh that is, Gangotri glacier in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand state. It has an elevation of about 7010 m. Alaknanda originates from the Satopanth glacier and joins the Bhagirathi at Devprayag. After the union of the Bhagirathi and Alaknanda, the river is known as Ganga. The Yamuna River on the other hand is the longest and the westernmost tributary of the Ganga River. The source of the Yamuna basin lies in the Yamunotri glacier on the western slopes of Bandarpunch. Some of the important tributaries of Yamuna flows mostly on the right tributaries, originating from the Aravallis, the Vindhya Range, and the Malwa Plateau from Madhya Pradesh.

Note: The river Ganga is considered one of the most important and sacred rivers of India. The Yamuna on the other hand is also the second-largest tributary river of the Ganga as well the longest tributary in India. Ganga originates from Gangotri Glacier.