Girl, 11, swims 550km to raise awareness

With

the message of ‘clean Ganga’, an 11-year-old girl has taken up the task of swimming along the mighty river to cover a distance of 550km from Massacre Ghat in Kanpur to Varanasi in just 10 days.

Shraddha Shukla, a Class IX student, dreams of representing India in swimming in the next Olympics. The Kanpur girl also wants to make people aware about the “Clean Ganga” initiative.

“She has already covered a distance of 150km and is on her way to Varanasi”, said her father Lalit Shukla, himself a professional diver and Shraddha’s coach. (PTI)