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CLEAN GANGA MISSION (Law alone will not help (Three-fourths of Ganga’s…
CLEAN GANGA MISSION
Rajya Sabha - Ganga doesn’t meet even bathing quality in Haridwar, districts Kannauj to Allahabad, and Berhampore (Murshidabad district) to Diamond Harbour (South 24 Parganas)
CAG’s 2017 report - coliform levels in all river-abutting cities in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal - 334 times higher
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Namami Gange program - under the National Mission for Clean Ganga initiative with an allocated budget of Rs 20,000 crores for 5 years - covers eight states + connect all 1,632 Gram Panchayats along Ganga to a sanitation system by 2022
Law alone will not help
Three-fourths of Ganga’s pollution - municipal sewage of some 100 cities and towns + thousands of villages located - banks - 2,525 km
UP, for example, - industries inspected - CPCB in 2013 - breach of the standards
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gap between intention and implementation - water resources ministry spent - fifth of the Rs 20,000 crore allocated for the project
CAG - Government - used $260 million of the $1.05 billion earmarked for the flagship programme between April 2015 and March 2017
consistent list of problems: unused funds, an
absence of a long-term plan - delays in taking concrete action
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treatment infrastructure never kept pace with the scale of pollution | riparian states + Centre - not ensured pollution checked at source
Main issues - lost in specious technicalities, flagrant violation of laws, ubiquitous corruption, and absence of co-ordination between - Centre and States
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Way forward
plan for drains that discharge into the Ganga, before planning STPs
plans - treated effluents i.e..,not to treat and put back treated waste water into open drains - mixed with untreated waste
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NGT - 100 meters from the edge of the river - no development/construction zone between Haridwar to Unnao in UP