Ganga water quality improves, mountain ranges become visible as air quality improves amidst coronavirus lockdown

Amidst the nationwide lockdown announced by the Central Government to check the transmission of the Wuhan Coronavirus in India, the water quality of river Ganga has seemingly improved in Varanasi and Kanpur in the state of Uttar Pradesh as per reports. As per Dr PK Mishra, Professor at Chemical Engineering&Technology, IIT-BHU,Varanasi, there has been 40-50% improvement in quality of water in Ganga pic.twitter.com/9uYInk01ji — ANI UP April 5, 2020 Kalika Singh, who is a regional officer of the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board, informed that the dissolved oxygen level in Ganga is above 8.3 mg per little which is higher than the recommended 7 mg/litre. Under the Namami Gange project, major drains merging into the Ganga have also been tapped.” Ajay Pujari, who is the priest of Parmat temple in Kanpur, informed, “Since all the factories are closed due to the lockdown, the Ganga river has become cleaner.” He added that the priests would not take a dip in the Holy river. Himalayas visible from Jalandhar for the first time Nature Reloaded pic.twitter.com/z07owheLjC — B S Bedi April 3, 2020 एक समय था जब कंचनजंगा देखने के लिए दार्जीलिंग, पीलिंग या रवांगला जाना पड़ता था। आज मौसम इतना साफ़ है कि कोलकाता से दिखाई दे रहा है। प्रकृति खिल गई है। pic.twitter.com/3GKzVSIHcu — Shiv Mishra April 5, 2020 Similarly, the Kanchenjunga is now visible from Kolkata.