SAGAR-GANGA DARSAN at Haridwar on the 31st of December 2008 was the finale of Chatur Gakaara Vichara Yajnam, the 3 month long, state wide comprehensive programme of talks and cultural, river and environment protection campaigns of 4 days each at all the districts of Kerala. The Sagar- Ganga Darsan Yatra which began on the 28th of December attained a new dimension and national importance with the declaration of Ganga as the National River and is the first journey of its kind in the country.

Around 2000 people from Kerala travelled from the sea shores of the Land’s end at Kanya Kumari, down south, to the bosom of the Himalayas in the North at Haridwar on a specially sanctioned train. Upholding the sense of solidarity and oneness with the Nation, this was the journey of an awakened populace to take a pledge and cleanse the polluted waters by bringing the holy waters of the Ganga and sprinkling it in all the 44 main rivers of Kerala in a symbolic gesture.

Noted writer P. Narayana Kurup handed over a pot of water collected from the Ganga to the children who poured the water into the river.

Several persons committed to the cause of preserving nature in all its purity had turned up to witness the solemn event.