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Major Rivers of India
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Ganges River System
The major and the longest river Ganges,and its tributaries form the largest cultivable plains of north and eastern India, known as the Gangetic plains. The main river, Ganges (alsa known as Ganga) is cosidered holy by Hindus. It forms by the joining of the Alaknanda River and Bhagirathi River at Devprayag. Bhagirathi, which is considered the Ganges' true source, starts from Gomukh. Known as the Padma River in Bangladesh, Ganga joins Brahmputra. The Brahmaputra is longer, but most of its course is not in India. The Ganges-Brahmaputra river system forms the largest delta in the world known asSunderban before emptying into the Bay of Bengal. At the origin in Rishikesh, there is a famous bridge over Ganges, known as Laxman Jhula. The length of Ganga is over 2525 km (in India 2510 km).
Indus River System
The Indus River originates in the northern slopes of the Kailash range near Lake Mansarovar in Tibet. Although most of the river's course runs through neighbouring Pakistan, as per as regulation of Indus water treaty of 1960, India can only use only 20 percent of water of river. A portion of it does run through Indian territory, as do parts of the courses of its five major tributaries, listed below. These tributaries are the source of the name of the Punjab of South Asia; the name is derived from the punch("five") and aab ("water"), hence the combination of the words (Punjab) means "land with the water of five rivers". Indus is 3200 km long.