Environmental impact of development in the Sundarbans Environmental impact of development in the Sundarbans Environmental impact of development in the Sundarbans, is the study of environmental impact on Sundarban, the largest single tract mangrove forest. It consist of a geographical area of , including of reserve forest land, and is a natural region located partly in southern Bangladesh and partly in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is ecologically a southern part of the Gangetic delta between the Hooghly river in India on the west and the Meghna river in Bangladesh on the east and is bounded by the Ganga-Padma, the Padma-Meghna on the north and
Ganga in Hinduism his own downfall by abducting and disgracing a princess named Amba whose only wish was to be married. The Ganga is the distilled lifeblood of the Hindu tradition, of its divinities, holy books, and enlightenment. As such, her worship does not require the usual rites of invocation ("avahana") at the beginning and dismissal ("visarjana") at the end, required in the worship of other gods. Her divinity is immediate and everlasting, but only for as long as the river survives. Ganga is mentioned in the "Rig Veda", the earliest and theoretically the holiest of the Hindu scriptures. Ganga is mentioned in