Padma River is also known as the Ganga and was named the Hoogly or Hooghly River by the British. Further downstream, in Goalando, from the source, the Padma is joined by the Jamuna (Lower Brahmaputra) and the resulting combination flows with the name Padma further east, to Chandpur. Here, the widest river in Bangladesh, the Meghna joins the Padma, continuing as the Meghna almost in a straight line to the south, ending in the Bay of Bengal. The Padma forms the whole of the southern boundary of the Pabna District for a distance of about . The Jalangi River is thrown off
Loknayak Ganga Path to Fatuha. Ganga Path project which has been in pipeline for many years, dubbed as the Marine Drive of Patna, the Ganga Path or Ganga Expressway will connect Digha to Kacchi Dargah along the river Ganges. The tender for the same is likely to be issued by the second week of May by Bihar State Road Development Corporation and the contract will be finalized by June. The total cost involved in this mega project is 5600 crore, having time interval for its completion to be four years. After the private investors failed to appear on the horizon, the State government