Will take 10 years to completely clean the Ganga: Uma BhartiUma Bharti said once the Ganga is cleaned, mass awareness will be needed to maintain its cleanliness, for which she will herself undertake ...
04 Jun, 2017, 08.43 PM IST
After Nitish jibe, Centre ropes in private companies to clean GangaCentre has, however, time and again enlisted what all it has been doing to clean the river under its ambitious Ganga rejuvenation plan in U...
02 Mar, 2017, 08.22 AM IST
After Nitish jibe, Centre ropes in private companies to clean GangaThe water resources ministry announced on Wednesday its move of awarding projects worth Rs 1,050 crore to private companies for setting up ...
02 Mar, 2017, 03.31 AM IST
How will you spend money allotted for Ganga cleaning: NGT asks UP govtThe observation came after the UP Jal Nigam told the bench that there was variation in the number of drains and the industrial effluents di...
07 Dec, 2016, 09.24 PM IST
Government to begin implementation of 'Clean Ganga' plan next month"We have invited the Prime Minister to launch the plan for 'Clean Ganga' and start its implementation next month," Union Minister Uma Bhart...
02 Apr, 2016, 10.21 PM IST
Clean Ganga Plan in next two months: Uma BhartiThe government will announce a comprehensive action plan to clean up the Ganga in the next two months, Union water resources minister Uma B...
19 Mar, 2016, 12.59 AM IST
10 IITs asked to adopt stretches of river Ganga and undertake cleaning plansMonths after a consortia of seven IITs submitted the Ganga River Basin Management Plan, the Central government has asked them to walk the t...
28 Dec, 2015, 10.29 AM IST
Ensure fulfilment of Clean Ganga Mission by 2020: Public Accounts Committee to governmentPAC has also recommended that appropriate riverfront development be drawn up involving the private sector as well as civil society.
11 Dec, 2014, 09.55 PM IST
Vision is to achieve goal of clean Ganga: Government to SCSolicitor General Ranjit Kumar made the statement in the wake of repeated remarks by SC that Centre was "visionless" in its mission to clea...
15 Oct, 2014, 08.47 PM IST
Govt should ensure ‘aviral’ flow of Ganga, says environment scientist BD TripathiAfter the UPA government constituted the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) in 2009 and announced “Mission Clean Ganga by 2020”, ...
25 Sep, 2014, 03.18 PM IST
Cleaning Ganga will take 18 years & massive investment: Centre to Supreme CourtThe government said that people from various walks of life including NRIs will have to get involved with the project to make it successful.
22 Sep, 2014, 08.11 PM IST
Academicians, technocrats, saints, NGOs and policy-makers to discuss Cleaning Ganga projectThe dialogue is being organised by the National Mission for Clean Ganga, currently under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate C...
07 Jul, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Ganga cleaning not a Hindutva project, says Congress leader Jairam RameshThe former Environment Minister said the government's Ganga Mission programme should be a people's programme and "we must involve society".
06 Jul, 2014, 06.20 PM IST
- Centre to hold 'Ganga Manthan' before finalizing its river rejuvenation blueprint
Religious leaders — sadhus and saints — will also be consulted by the Centre before making a blue print of its Ganga rejuvenation programme...
12 Jun, 2014, 08.14 PM IST
Clean Yamuna along with Ganga: NGO asks Narendra Modi governmentAn NGO has asked Modi govt to also take up the issue of cleaning Yamuna, saying the mission of cleansing Ganga was incomplete without clean...
02 Jun, 2014, 06.00 PM IST
Other states should not say how Ganga should be cleaned: Akhilesh YadavIrked by Modi's remark that why Ganga could not be cleaned like his govt had done with Sabarmati, UP CM Akhilesh Yadav today hit back, sayi...
21 Dec, 2013, 05.14 PM IST
- Centre approves Rs 7000 crore project to clean Ganga
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved a Rs 7000-crore project for cleaning of River Ganga to be implemented by the Natio...
28 Apr, 2011, 07.46 PM IST