Ganga ab bhi maili hai ji of Patitapav ... The central government is ready to make it holy again.

New Delhi, Oct 8, 2019, Tuesday

For the last few years, every central government has been eager to make pollution free from pollution. The present NDA government has also undertaken an ambitious project called Namami Gang. The Ganges is not cleansed. On the contrary, the cost of cleaning has increased 15 times in the last five years. A spokesman for the National Mission for Clean Ganga said that the cost of cleaning Ganga was increasing steadily day by day.

According to information provided by NMGC Director Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, the cost of cleaning Ganga is likely to surpass the Rs 3000 crore mark. Industrial waste, sewage and dead bodies of surrounding areas are dumped in the Ganges. None of the surrounding units care about the rules set out for industrial waste.

Mishra said that the cleaning of the Ganges also includes the cost of cleaning other small rivers flowing along the Ganges as well as cleaning the sewage line of the respective areas. The sewage treatment plant will also need to be refurbished.

Namami Gang launched the scheme in 2014-15 by the NDA government. 199 crore 99 lakh was spent on cleaning it for the first year. But they went in vain because the people and industrial units of the Gangetic people did not cooperate 100 percent. As a result, the cost of cleaning of the Ganges increased to 2,626 crore 54 lakhs by 2017-18 but the Ganges was not completely cleared. So far, 298 projects have been approved under the Namami Gang project. The central government has allocated Rs 20,000 crore to completely clean the Ganges between 2015 and 2020. Expenses continue to rise, but unless the cities and people around the Ganges fully cooperate, Ganga is unlikely to be 100 percent clean, experts say.

Meanwhile, Union Energy Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat claimed that by 2021, the Ganges from Gangotri to Haridwar would be clean and tidy. You will see this quaint Ganga before the full Kumbh Mela, to be held in Haridwar in 2021. Household sewage and industrial pollution will be completely overcome before the Kumbh Mela is held.