Three soldiers swam 2800-Km down the Ganga in 43-days to spread awareness

Three soldiers swam 2,800-Km in 43-days down the Ganga - from Devprayag in Uttarakhand to Ganga Sagar in Bengal - in order to spread awareness about the need to keep the river and its environments clean. The three soldiers are Wing Commander Paramvir Singh, and Sergeants Gulupili Narhari and Sarapilli Srihari. They began their journey on October 8 and swam an average of 65-Km every day with stops at Hardwar, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi and Patna. They finally reached Ganga Sagar on November 19.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 24 November 2015.

In the course of their journey, the trio had met over 30,000 people and explained to them how a clean river would benefit their communities in days to come.
They have observed that the river was most polluted in Kanpur, where pollutants from adjoining chemical factories along the banks dump their waste into the water. The color of the water was red because of effluent and the locals are scared of even taking a dip.
The trio talked with the civic authorities, who assured that they would try to install more treatment plants.
A common sight along the banks was cremation on wooden pyres. During interaction with the locals, they tried to convince them that cremating bodies in electric crematorium would save trees.
The three swimmers were felicitated at a ceremony held at Fort William.

(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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