Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the project to clean Ganga, one of the important rivers of the country, has been a success and the gover...

Minister of State in Jal Shakti Ministry Rattan Lal Kataria demanded that construction of dams should be stopped to save the Ganga.

In response to a separate question, Singh said under the Namami Gange project, work on 34 ghats and nine crematoriums has been completed.

Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari said a sum of Rs 2,600 crore would be earmarked for work under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Y...

CAG highlighted its findings which show that the river water quality in eight out of 10 cities/towns (except Rishikesh and Haridwar) along ...

The Union cabinet, chaired by PM Narendra Modi, had approved the `Namami Gange' programme in May, 2015 and sanctioned Rs 20,000 crore for f...

Uma Bharti said that the Centre is mulling passage of a legislation called the Ganga Act in Parliament for the success of Namami Gange.

Namami Gange aims to clean and protect the 2,500-km-long river. The projects range from construction and modernisation of ghats to afforest...

Giving a major fillip to its Ganga rejuvenation efforts, National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) - a central body to implement the gov...

The surface cleaning of river Ganga, including removal of solid waste such as clothes, parts of dead bodies, will commence from next month,...

Government is considering the need to draft a "comprehensive" legislation for rejuvenation of river Ganga, Rajya Sabha was informed today.

Five states, through which the Ganga passes, have a special role to play in the implementation of the scheme aimed at cleaning the river.

Bharti said that the ministry has decided to engage four battalions of Territorial Army and deploy alongside the banks of Ganga for constan...

The first phase of 'Clean Ganga' campaign will be completed by October 2016 for the conservation of the river, Water Resources Minister Uma...

At a time when the country's national river Ganga has caught the attention of policymakers, a new report of India's key pollution watchdog ...

Villages to be covered under the scheme fall under 1,632 gram panchayats along the river bank in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West...