Project Dolphin
- The National Ganga Council (NGC), headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi met for the first time at Kanpur with the proposal to save and enhance the population of the Gangetic Dolphin.
- In 2009, the Gangetic dolphins were declared India’s National Aquatic animal during the first meeting of the erstwhile National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA). The Gangetic dolphin has been notified by the Assam government as the state aquatic animal, too.
- It is placed under the “endangered” category by the IUCN.
- As per WWF, they once lived in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna and Karnaphuli-Sangu river systems of Nepal, India, and Bangladesh, but are now ....
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