- In November 2023, New Delhi hosted the Ganga Utsav.
- Ganga Utsav was in its seventh year.
- The National Mission for Clean Ganga hosted this festival.
- The celebration was opened by Ashok Kumar, Director General of the National Mission for Clean Ganga.
- This event saw the beginning of the Ganga Pustak Parikrama.
- This parikrama will take place between November 7, 2023 and January 11, 2024.
- This parikrama will visit towns such as Uttarkashi, Rishikesh, Haridwar, Bijnor, Meerut,
- Aligarh, Farrukhabad, Kanpur, Prayagraj, Mirzapur, Varanasi, Chhapra, Patna, Begusarai, Sultanganj, Bhagalpur, Sahibganj, Baharampur, Kolkata, and Haldia, among others.
- The Ganga Utsav 2023 celebrations also witnessed the release of the 33rd edition of Namami Gange magazine.
- Ganga was designated as India’s national river in 2008.
