Govt to form teams to identify source of Ganga pollution
Expediting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project of cleansing the Ganga, the Centre will constitute 25 special teams to check the source of pollution of the holy river so that further action could be taken accordingly. The teams to be drawn from different wings of the Ministry of Water Resources would inspect various drains of the river during winters as there is no flow from the glaciers then, which will give ample scope to them to locate the source of discharge released by industries and other polluting factors. The exercise is being done in winter since effluents get mixed up in the river’s natural flow in summer along with the water from melting glaciers, thus reducing the chances of identifying the source of pollution. The problem has arisen largely due to the discharge of untreated urban waste and industrial effluents from the large and medium cities located along the course of the Ganga and its tributaries.
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