Mahakumbh sets sanitation benchmark with ‘Zero Discharge’ initiative: Officials
1 month ago

Mahakumbh sets sanitation benchmark with ‘Zero Discharge’ initiative: Officials

Hindustan Times  

Along with faith, devotion, peace, and liberation, Mahakumbh is setting new benchmarks in waste management and sanitation. The local administration has successfully treated wastewater from over 1.5 lakh toilets daily, ensuring zero discharge into the river A remarkable highlight of this Mahakumbh is the wastewater management system and zero discharge policy, ensuring that no polluted water is released into the river. The local administration has successfully treated wastewater from over 1.5 lakh toilets daily, ensuring zero discharge into the river—a feat the world is witnessing. Mahakumbh 2025 is now a model for future large-scale religious gatherings.” She further said that over 1.5 lakh toilets, including soak-pits, FRP, and mobile units, have been set up across the mela area. For the first time, the Prayagraj Mela Authority has introduced 350 suction machines and 1.5-litre toilets and urinals, ensuring zero discharge into the river.

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Post-Kumbh cleanup: 8,500 workers, 500 machines on a mission
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Post-Kumbh cleanup: 8,500 workers, 500 machines on a mission

Hindustan Times  

Even as a massive cleanup operation is underway inthe mela area after the conclusion of Mahakumbh-2025 by the Prayagraj Mela Authority, the Prayagraj Municipal Corporation has initiated an extensive post-fair sanitation drive in Sangam city as well. To execute this, the corporation has deployed approximately 8,500 sanitation workers, along with over 500 machines, including hopper tippers, municipal officials informed. The …

Prayagraj ‘exhausted’? Locals plead for visitors to stop coming to Mahakumbh
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Prayagraj ‘exhausted’? Locals plead for visitors to stop coming to Mahakumbh

Live Mint  

Mahakumbh 2025: Over 600 million devotees have taken a holy dip at the Mahakumbh so far, and the numbers are expected to rise further, with Maha Shivratri just around the corner on February 26. Prominent personalities such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Ambanis, and several other international icons, including Laurene Powell and Chris Martin, have taken the sacred dip …

Maha Kumbh: Surge in devotees leaves a trail of garbage in Ganga, Yamuna
1 month, 1 week ago

Maha Kumbh: Surge in devotees leaves a trail of garbage in Ganga, Yamuna

Hindustan Times  

While there has been a marked surge in devotees visiting Prayagraj for the ongoing Mahakumbh, the mega event has also led to a significant rise in garbage found floating in the Ganga and the Yamuna that mostly comprises the offerings that the faithful carry when they go for the holy dip. To ensure clean water at Sangam for the pilgrims, …

Maha Kumbh: Daily water testing, removal of pooja waste among measures to keep Ganga 'dip-safe'
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Maha Kumbh: Daily water testing, removal of pooja waste among measures to keep Ganga 'dip-safe'

Hindustan Times  

By Gunjan Sharma and Arunav Sinha Maha Kumbh: Daily water testing, removal of pooja waste among measures to keep Ganga 'dip-safe' Mahakumbh Nagar, Daily sample testing of river water by the Pollution Control Board, round-the-clock separation of flowers and pooja material from water a, 200-km temporary drainage system to channel all greywater to treatment facilities and state-of-the-art technology to deal …

Maha Kumbh 2025 | Ensure Pilgrims Don't Suffer, Prevent Sewage & Waste Discharge Into Ganga, Yamuna: NGT Directs UP PCB, CPCB
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Maha Kumbh 2025 | Ensure Pilgrims Don't Suffer, Prevent Sewage & Waste Discharge Into Ganga, Yamuna: NGT Directs UP PCB, CPCB

Live Law  

In a series of significant directions to the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board and Central Pollution Control Board, the National Green Tribunal has directed the authorities to ensure that the pilgrims visiting the Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 do not suffer and that no untreated sewage and solid waste is discharged in river Ganga and Yamuna.This time around the 40-day Maha. …

West UP industries to halt operations for clean Ganga during Mahakumbh
3 months, 2 weeks ago

West UP industries to halt operations for clean Ganga during Mahakumbh

Hindustan Times  

Over 500 industrial units across 11 districts of western Uttar Pradesh have been directed to ensure “zero” discharge during the Mahakumbh in Prayagraj. The Ganga river-bed, near Sangam in Prayagraj The state government, along with the pollution control department, has devised a roster to regulate industrial operations on specific dates corresponding to the Mahakumbh bathing schedule. Yadav stated, “These committees …

Ahead of Mahakumbh, NGT raises red flag over untreated sewage discharge into Ganga
4 months, 1 week ago

Ahead of Mahakumbh, NGT raises red flag over untreated sewage discharge into Ganga

Hindustan Times  

LUCKNOW With eight weeks to Mahakumbh-2025, the National Green Tribunal has raised serious concerns over the deteriorating quality of water in the Ganga, citing discharge of untreated sewage into the river. “Monitoring of water quality at 41 locations discloses that the faecal coliform exceeds 500MNP/100ml at 16 locations and more than 2500 MNP/100ml at 17 locations, showing that water quality …

‘Must be Prepared Before Mahakumbh’: Allahabad HC Seeks Report on Prayagraj’s Sewage System
2 years, 1 month ago

‘Must be Prepared Before Mahakumbh’: Allahabad HC Seeks Report on Prayagraj’s Sewage System

News 18  

The Allahabad High Court recently sought a detailed report on the plan of the Prayagraj Administration to take care of the extra generation of sewerage water and solid waste during various religious festivals. The bench of Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal, Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta and Justice Ajit Kumar observed, “It is a matter of fact that crores of people visit …

Prayagraj Hosts Several Religious Melas, Extra load on Sewage System must be Taken Care of: Allahabad HC
2 years, 2 months ago

Prayagraj Hosts Several Religious Melas, Extra load on Sewage System must be Taken Care of: Allahabad HC

News 18  

The Allahabad High Court recently observed that the city of Prayagraj hosts a number of religious congregations which results in additional sewage and solid waste, therefore, extra efforts should be made by the city administration to take care of this additional load on the system. Although the affidavit contained details of the Sewage Treatment Plants in Prayagraj which discharge sewage …

Ganga cleaning got a major boost, the river got rid of waste from Asia’s largest sewer
6 years, 3 months ago

Ganga cleaning got a major boost, the river got rid of waste from Asia’s largest sewer

Op India  

Cleaning of river Ganga got a major boost when the engineers in Kanpur finally got rid of waste from Sissamau Nalla, diverting it to Jajamau sewage treatment plant. However, it was a herculean task for the engineers to stop the remaining 6 crore liters of sewage from getting drained in Ganga because the velocity of the drain was similar to …

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