<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The world's longest river cruise MV Ganga Vilas re-enters India and anchored at Dhubri Port of Assam this afternoon after passing through neighbouring Bangladesh with 28 foreign tourists.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The vessel carries 26 Swiss and &nbsp;2 German tourists and crossed the zero point in Dhubri along the India-Bangladesh border this morning. Today evening various cultural programmes were organised for the travelling tourists after their grand reception and immigration clearance.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Tomorrow, the tourist will visit the largest terracotta cluster in India at Asharikandi village which is 14 km away from Dhubri town to get a first-hand experience of the traditional way of making terracotta and pottery. They will also visit the Gurudwara Tegbahadur Sahibji and Victoria Park in Dhubri town before leaving for Jogighopa in Goalpara district.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">MV Ganga Vilas is scheduled to travel 13 days in Assam and will also halt at Jogighopa, Sualkuchi and Pandu in Guwahati, &nbsp;Kaziranga and Majuli before the culmination of the journey at Dibrugarh on 1st March.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi had virtually flagged off the cruise on 13th of last month from Varanasi which has already traversed through Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Bangladesh.</span></p>
News On AIR | February 17, 2023 7:10 PM
World's longest river cruise MV Ganga Vilas enters India from Bangladesh