Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced that the Uttar Pradesh government will take the full responsibility of the child and will ensure its proper upbringing.
According to reports, a boatmen heard the baby crying near the Dadri Ghat and saw the box. When he opened the box, he saw the baby girl.
Photographs of Hindu deities and a horoscope of the baby were placed inside the box. The baby was wrapped in a dupatta.
The police were informed and the baby was taken to the Asha Jyoti Kendra and then a hospital for check-up.
The baby has now been named 'Ganga'.
Ghazipur, June 16
A 22-day old baby girl was found abandoned in a wooden box floating in the Ganga river in Ghazipur district on Wednesday.
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