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From 10 to 3: Raghav Chadha leads AAP MPs to BJP, leaving Arvind Kejriwal with three loyalists; who are they?Seven out of ten Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha members have joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. Raghav Chadha led this significant shift, redu...
Namami Gange failed to deliver expected results in Uttarakhand: CAG reportA CAG report reveals the Namami Gange program failed in Uttarakhand. Implementing agencies showed major flaws. Sewage treatment plants had ...
Water quality of Ganga in UP deteriorating due to discharge of sewage: NGTThe National Green Tribunal (NGT) found that untreated sewage discharge from Uttar Pradesh is polluting the Ganga River. The NGT criticized...
Zero sewer discharge in Ganga in Varanasi by NovThe Ganga Action Plan was launched by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in Varanasi on June 14, 1986 to reduce the pollution load on Ganga.
Zero sewer discharge in Ganga in Varanasi by Nov
1.3 billion litres of waste flows into Ganga every dayAccording to the data available on the Mission website, of the 100 sewage treatment projects, 43 projects are old ones on which work was st...
Centre turns to ‘sewage-eating’ microbes to treat Ganga water at 54 new sitesUnder bioremediation technique, the activated microbes eat up contaminants such as oil and organic matter. The bacteria play a vital role i...
Clean Ganga: Sewage treatment projects worth Rs 1,902 crore okayed13 projects will be developed in Uttarakhand, where new STPs will be set up and the existing ones will be upgraded, at a cost of around Rs ...
Sewage in Ganga: NGT show cause notice to five municipal bodiesA bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar slammed the municipal bodies of Mirzapur, Chunar, Bhadohi, Fatehpur and Hastinapu...
'Zero discharge policy' goes for a toss as half the sewage in Ganga is from six cities along itMore than half the total sewage discharged into the Ganga every day comes from six big cities with Kolkata, Kanpur and Varanasi leading the...
Centre seeks action plans from municipalities, ULBs on GangaPrakash Javadekar said that Ganga River improvement project is the first of the government’s project to clean and improve all the rivers in...
Private companies may be roped in for Ganga sewage treatmentGuided by its self-imposed deadline to clean the Ganga by 2018, the government is planning to involve private sector in a big way.
Rs 5,160 crore given to states to clean riversNational River Conservation Plan and NGRBA programme cover polluted stretches of 42 rivers spread over 21 states at a sanctioned cost of Rs...
- Ganga clean-up project: Inspection of 108 nullahs begins
About 120 teams of officials drawn from different wings of the ministry have been were constituted to study various aspects of 118 places .
- Sufficient waterflow can help solve Ganga's pollution woes
The Ganga, declared National River in 2009, is still battling with pollution and people's apathy.The Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) admits t...
- Water quality in Ganga at Haridwar poor: NGO
Water quality of the river Ganga in Haridwar is below the standards set by the Central Pollution Control Board for bathing, a recent study ...
Beyond belief: Who will save the Ganga?Ganga Action Plan (GAP) was launched in June 1985. More than Rs 1,000 crore have been spent on the different phases of the project making l...