The rivers is India are all pious. The Ganga, The Yamuna, The Saryu, The Narmada, The Sindhu, are all sacred for us. They all play an important role in our agriculture and promote our trades. For every Indian, a river is like a temple and one’s own mother.
A mother, as we know, has to suffer for her children. Our rivers have a similar fate. All our big rivers originate from some hill or mountain. They are fed by snow or rain or both. So, the Indus, the Ganges, The Kosi, flow all the year round. Other rivers flow only during the rainy season and they get dried up in summer.
Triveni Sangam at Allahabad is a lovely place, but more than this, it is a holy place. No wonder, our saints and thinkers have lived and passed away on the banks of these rivers since ancient times.
In this way, our rivers feed on ordinary water, snow water and rain water.
But they give us the precious water which is very essential for sustenance of life.
1. They provide health to our fields and forest. The silt they bring is nutrition for our soil. A barren piece of land is turned into a lovely garden by this.
2. They feed not only our land and our plants, but also our mills and factories. River water is turned into hydro – power called electricity, and thus, in turn, it helps our trade and industry.
3. Rivers toil across all the rocks and come to us running, playing and smiling. They lead their life just as a mother sacrifices everything for her children.
