Question

River Ganga emerges in the plains at _______________.
a. Rishikesh
b. Devaprayag
c. Haridwar
d. Allahabad

Answer 1

Hint:
- An ancient city in the Northern Indian state of Uttarakhand where the River Ganges exits at the base of the Himalayas. It is a major Hindu pilgrimage site.
- During large festivals, including the annual Kanwar Mela, worshipers fill the city.

Complete answer:
Ganga River -
- The River of the Ganges, the Hindi Ganges, the great river of the plains of the subcontinent of northern India.

- It rises in the Himalayas and empties into the Bay of Bengal, drains a quarter of India's land, and feeds hundreds of millions of people in its basin.
- The heartland of the area known as Hindustan, which is the greater part of the Indo-Gangetic Plain through which it flows, and was the cradle of successive civilizations from the Ashoka Mauryan Empire in the 3rd century BCE to the Mughal Empire, founded in the 16th century.
- The Ganges flows through Indian territory for most of its course, although its large delta in the region of Bengal, which it shares with the Brahmaputra River, lies mostly in Bangladesh.
- From northwest to southeast is the general direction of the river's flow. The flow in its delta is normally southward.
- At the Devprayag converging Rivers Alaknanda and Bhagirathi to form the mainstream called the Ganga which crosses the Siwalik Range (Outer Himalayas) southwest on the Northern Rim of the Indo-Gangetic Plain to come to the Rishikesh mountains. Then it flows into the plain to Haridwar, a location that Hindus regard as sacred.

Hence, the correct answer is option C.

Note:
- As it receives more tributaries and enters an area of heavier rainfall, the volume of the Ganges increases markedly, and it shows a marked seasonal variation in flow.
- The melting Himalayan snow feeds the river from April to June, and the rain-bearing monsoons trigger floods in the rainy season, from July to September. The river's flow decreases during winter.