Sword hanging over 125 Haridwar hotels for dirtying Ganga – Times of India
HARIDWAR: The state Pollution Control Board (PCB) is contemplating action against 125 hotels in the city for dumping their effluents into the Ganga in clear violation of a National Green tribunal (NGT) order.”According to the order passed by the tribunal on August 19, it is mandatory for all hotels with 20 or more rooms to have their own sewage More...
Clean Ganga not possible unless flow is uninterrupted: Nitish Kumar |Hindustan Times
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said a clean Ganga would not be possible unless its flow is uninterrupted. In his Independence Day address at Gandhi Maidan, Kumar said River Ganga’s depth has reduced More...
Namami Gange Programme Is ‘Atonement’ For Polluting The River, Says Uma Bharti
New Delhi: The Namami Gange programme is “atonement” for the pollution of the Ganga post-Independence, Union minister Uma Bharti said today and appealed to lawmakers from constituencies along the More...
Fish ladders to be put up in Ganga to help hilsa breeding: Uma Bharti | The Indian Express
Uma Bharti said the real benchmark that Ganga is pollution free would be the return of aqua life in the river. Plans are afoot to install ‘fish ladders’ in river Ganga near the Farakka Barrage in West Bengal More...
Clean Ganga Fund: Over 132 crore donated to clean the river | The Indian Express
New Delhi, Aug 4 (PTI) The Clean Ganga Fund launched by the NDA government as part of its ambitious mission to clean the river has received more than Rs 132 crore in donations.“An amount of Rs 132,43,81,681 has More...
‘Sewage plants on Ganga being delayed due to land acquisition’ | The Indian Express
The process of setting up sewage treatment plants on the banks of the Ganga was getting delayed due to land acquisition and related issues, government said on Monday. “Even today, 3,000 million litres per day More...
RTI revelation: Rs 2,958 crore spent on Ganga ‘clean-up’ without visible results – The Economic Times
LUCKNOW: It is not just the opposition which is out to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s emotive connect with the river Ganga. Statistics show that very little has been done in the past two years of BJP More...
Ganga will start drying up in next 25 years: Environmental scientist – The New Indian Express
VARANASI : In the late 1960s, BD Tripathi, a professor at the Banaras Hindu University, took his mom for a holy dip to the river Ganga. He spotted the carcass of a cow floating in the river, with vultures preying More...
NRIs/PIOs can now contribute to Swachch Bharat, Clean Ganga
NRIs and Persons of Indian Origion (PIOs) will now be able to make monetary contributions online for government’s flagship programmes ‘Swachch Bharat’ and Clean Ganga among other social sector More...
Bijnor continues to flush its waste into Ganga as construction of treatment plant delayed – Times of India
Bijnor: The ambitious project to treat the city waste before it is released into the Ganga River is running two years behind the schedule, hitting hard the Centre’s clean Ganga mission.The work on the Rs 115 More...