No Change In Ganga’s Situations, Now Modi Will Take Control
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The river that is not just some flowing water, but is worshipped as Ganga Mata is in trouble as we all can see. Few years back in 2004, it was announced that the river will be cleaned till the deadline of 2020 with use of $3.06 billion. But according to the reports only $205 million is spent on the same between April 2015 and March 2017 and “not a single drop of the Ganga has been cleaned so far.”
Kanpur city in utter Pradesh is facing the crisis of pollution from the industries getting into the river. The tanneries in the state operating the industrial area are to being inspected and 14 are closed till now.
The $3 billion project of cleanliness of Ganga River is really going behind the schedule. Even the officials of NMCG (National Mission for Clean Ganga), the government body made for overseeing the same project, believe that the deadline 2018 for cleaning the Ganga is “impossible”, he said “If we want to meet the 2018 deadline, we should have commissioned plants to treat half the sewage already.”
The river is worshiped by Hindus i.e. by 80% population of the country with 1.3 billion people. It is given the title of Mother Ganga and is believed that taking a dip in the holy water of can absorb the lifetime sins. Hindus also cremate bodies of their loved ones into the river.
It flows from the Himalayas to Bay of Bengal giving water source to 400 million people. With this, it is also an industrial waste disposal place for 760 industrials units.
NMCG presentations have showed that 4800 million liters of pullulated sewage from places flows into the Ganges every day. The capacity to treat sewage is 1,017 million liters per day.
“The situation has deteriorated every year, fewer people visit now and there are no prayers at this river bank,” said Ram Das, a Hindu priest at a riverside temple.
Watching all these situations, Modi is now taking things under his personal control. According to facts, Modi govt has cleared the construction plants to treat 933 milliliters per day (MLD) and more additional 1,091 MLD can be done by the rehabilitation of existing plants. Modi has to work over this issue as to show a tangible improvement in next elections in 2019.
“You will see improvements. We have asked the states to speed up progress and money is not an issue,” said C. V. Dharma Rao, deputy director general at the NMCG in New Delhi.
Yogi Adityanath, the new chief minister of the state being a Hindu priest has championed cleaning the Ganga. Last week he went through the riverfront developments of the Ganga’s tributary to accelerate the work.
The government is starting with some simpler ways of cleaning. It’s started with the ghats, the riverside steps where the devotees assemble to take bath and the banks where bodies are cremated.
Until now there is no change in the look of the river and its situation, Plastic bodies over the river flowing in the black water followed with the mosquitoes is what is visible.
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