Reality check: Modi govt's Namami Gange project a non-starter
6 years, 6 months ago

Reality check: Modi govt's Namami Gange project a non-starter

India Today  

As the boat cruises along the banks, slurries gurgle dark black sewage into the Ganga, littered with plastic, carcasses and trash. Along Varanasi's ghats, lab tests have found bacterial contamination is now higher than the levels recorded back in 2014 -- when the Modi government launched its most ambitious Namami Gange initiative to clean up the river. In its reply to India Today's RTI application, the Ganga Rejuvenation Ministry has reported a 58 per cent increase in contamination from faecal coliform bacteria in the city's waterway. "There are five priority drains having flow more than one million litres per day, which are joining into river Ganga in Varanasi," said the ministry in its RTI reply, citing data from the Central Pollution Control Board. A man brushes his teeth as he stands in the polluted water of river Ganga in Kolkata Senior ministry officials insisted the new STPs would help tackle Ganga pollution considerably in the prime minister's constituency.

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Reviving India’s Great Rivers: How Modi’s Leadership is Saving the Lifelines of India
10 months, 1 week ago

Reviving India’s Great Rivers: How Modi’s Leadership is Saving the Lifelines of India

News 18  

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NGT imposes Rs 4,000 cr fine on Bihar for failing to scientifically manage solid, liquid waste
1 year, 8 months ago

NGT imposes Rs 4,000 cr fine on Bihar for failing to scientifically manage solid, liquid waste

India Today  

The National Green Tribunal has levied Rs 4,000 crore environmental compensation on Bihar for failing to scientifically manage solid and liquid waste. The bench, also comprising Justice Sudhir Agarwal and Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi along with expert members Afroz Ahmad and A Senthil Vel, said, "We levy compensation of Rs 4,000 crore on the state on the polluter pays principle …

United Nations delegate describes India's 'Namami Gange' mission as 'beacon of hope'
1 year, 9 months ago

United Nations delegate describes India's 'Namami Gange' mission as 'beacon of hope'

The Hindu  

India has high ambitions for improving its water sector and the ‘Namami Gange’ mission for the rejuvenation of the country’s longest river is a “beacon of hope” and an inspirational story, a UN delegate highlighted at the ongoing water conference here. The Ganga river is one of the iconic and vital streams in society that “help us understand the importance …

‘Clean Ganga’ changes course to conservation, tourism, livelihood
2 years, 1 month ago

‘Clean Ganga’ changes course to conservation, tourism, livelihood

The Hindu  

Marking a shift in emphasis, the Union government’s flagship Namami Gange programme, conceived to improve the sanitation levels in the Ganga river is now geared towards conservation, tourism and providing economic livelihoods. At a meeting, earlier this week, of the top body tasked with coordinating Namami Gange activities and chaired by Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat the thrust …

Sustainable sanitation: Co-treatment emerges as a key solution in Uttarakhand
2 years, 1 month ago

Sustainable sanitation: Co-treatment emerges as a key solution in Uttarakhand

Firstpost  

India in the past few years has adopted a holistic and multi-stakeholder approach to solve for its sanitation needs, despite the challenge of rising urbanization. The launch of the National Faecal Sludge and Septage Management Policy in 2017 was a milestone step that led the discourse beyond ensuring access to toilets, towards proper containment, disposal and treatment of faecal sludge. …

Government's Namami Gange plan for cleaning Yamuna
2 years, 2 months ago

Government's Namami Gange plan for cleaning Yamuna

India TV News  

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UP govt sets up 104 sewage treatment plants, water quality in Ganga, other rivers improves
3 years, 3 months ago

UP govt sets up 104 sewage treatment plants, water quality in Ganga, other rivers improves

India Today  

The Uttar Pradesh government has set up 104 sewage treatment plants of 3,298.84 million litres daily in the state in a bid to clean the major rivers including Ganga. The water quality in Ganga, Gomti, Saryu, Yamuna and Rapti has improved significantly, according to the Uttar Pradesh government. Along with cleaning the rivers and stopping sewage from falling into them, …

₹1,500cr plant on anvil to treat Vrishabhavati river: K’taka minister
3 years, 6 months ago

₹1,500cr plant on anvil to treat Vrishabhavati river: K’taka minister

Hindustan Times  

Karnataka minister for tourism and environment CP Yogeshwar said the state government will spend ₹1,500 crore in five years to build a tertiary treatment facility so that Vrishabhavati river water will be treated and used for agriculture purposes, even as a report by exerts says the civic agencies in the city are responsible for flow of sewage into the river. …

Namami Gange projects to be completed by 2022, government informs Lok Sabha
5 years, 1 month ago

Namami Gange projects to be completed by 2022, government informs Lok Sabha

India Today  

The Centre has set a deadline to complete all sanctioned works of Namami Gange project by 2022. The rest of the projects are at various stages of implementation, Minister of State for Jal Shakti & Social Justice and Empowerment Rattan Lal Kataria informed the Lok Sabha today in reply to a question. Under Namami Gange Programme, diverse set of interventions …

Why the Grand Government Effort to Clean up the Ganga Is Failing
5 years, 9 months ago

Why the Grand Government Effort to Clean up the Ganga Is Failing

The Quint  

Pollution levels in the holy river at Varanasi are rated “severe”, the worst category, according to a 2018 report–the latest data available–of the Central Pollution Control Board. Varanasi is the parliamentary constituency of prime minister Narendra Modi and critical to Namami Gange, the Rs 20,000-crore flagship programme he launched in 2015 to clean the river. A river that meanders 2,500 …

Modi lays foundation stone for various Namami Gange projects in Kanpur
5 years, 10 months ago

Modi lays foundation stone for various Namami Gange projects in Kanpur

Deccan Chronicle  

Kanpur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday in Kanpur inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for a slew of projects worth Rs.73.8 crore, including those for the Namami Gange project, aimed at cleaning and safeguarding the river Ganga. The newly inaugurated projects include the interception and diversion of the128 years old SisamauNala carrying 140 Million litres per day of untreated …

Ganga pollution rose in Uttarakhand in 2014-18, no change in UP, Bihar, WB
5 years, 11 months ago

Ganga pollution rose in Uttarakhand in 2014-18, no change in UP, Bihar, WB

Business Standard  

Ganga pollution rose in Uttarakhand in 2014-18, no change in UP, Bihar, WB A Central Pollution Control Board report showing this was put in public domain only after Supreme Court directions but withdrawn within 12 hours of questions being sent to the govt for this story Web Exclusive Premium In June 2014, the Union government approved the Namami Gange project …

Ganga cleaning got a major boost, the river got rid of waste from Asia’s largest sewer
6 years, 1 month 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 …

Kottayam: Coliform bacteria infests Pamba waters
6 years, 2 months ago

Kottayam: Coliform bacteria infests Pamba waters

Deccan Chronicle  

Kottayam: The presence of coliform bacteria at various points at river Pamba is far beyond the accepted standards, statistics available with the Pollution Control Board at Pathanamthitta district show, indicating that it is harmful for the devotees who take a dip in the river before ascending the Sabarimala hill for darshan. There is a 5 mld sewage treatment plant at …

Why Clean Ganga project has a long way to go
6 years, 5 months ago

Why Clean Ganga project has a long way to go

The Hindu  

What is the National Mission for Clean Ganga? It is a registered trust that runs the ‘Namami Gange’ mission — India’s most ambitious endeavour to clean the Ganga river. Previous attempts to clean the river have been unsuccessful because treatment infrastructure never kept pace with the scale of pollution and riparian Sstates and the Centre had not ensured that pollution …

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