{"id":108,"date":"2026-01-07T11:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=108"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:30:54","slug":"sagar-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sagar-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Sagar Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Sagar Island Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The West Bengal Chief Minister recently laid the foundation stone of a 5-km-long bridge over the river Muriganga to connect Sagar Island with the mainland.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Sagar Island<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sagar Island, also known as <\/span><b>Gangasagar or Sagardwip<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is located in the <\/span><b>Ganges delta,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><b>West Bengal.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is about 100 km <\/span><b>south of Kolkata.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is part of the <\/span><b>South 24 Parganas district<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It consists of 43 villages.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It lies at the <\/span><b>mouth of the Hooghly River <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(a major distributary of the Ganges), an <\/span><b>arm of which separates it from the mainland <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the east.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although Sagar Island is a <\/span><b>part of Sundarbans<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it <\/span><b>does not have any tiger habitation or mangrove forests<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or small river tributaries as is characteristic of the overall Sundarban delta.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Situated at a point<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where the <\/span><b>Ganges River system meets the Bay of Bengal,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the island is held to be particularly sacred and is a <\/span><b>noted Hindu pilgrimage center.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thousands of pilgrims make their way to Sagardwip every year in <\/span><b>mid-January<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to take a holy dip in the river during the <\/span><b>Ganga Sagar Fair.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ganga Sagar Fair is the <\/span><b>second most attended fair in the world<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>after <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the popular <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/maha-kumbh-mela\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kumbh Mela<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Kapil Muni temple<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the island is a popular pilgrim centre.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/west-bengal\/west-bengal-cm-mamata-lays-foundation-stone-of-5-km-bridge-connecting-sagar-island-to-mainland\/article70475374.ece#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sagar Island is located in the Ganges delta, in West Bengal. 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