SNIPPETS Ganga conservation to be part of UP syllabus

LUCKNOW: Students of the Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Board (UPSEB) will now study the Ganga conservation subject at the high school and intermediate level. This has been included as a subject at the initiative of the Namami Gange Department and Uttar Pradesh will be the first state to do so. According the government spokesman, a proposal to include Ganga conservation and prevention of water pollution in the curriculum has been prepared and the UPSEB has sent it to a committee of Hindi experts for consideration. Once the committee approves the proposal, the subject will be included in the syllabus.

Devotees perform rituals at the river Ganga during Magh Mela on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, in Prayagraj, UP, on Thursday.