Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajendra Prasad Gupta Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. Counsel appearing for the state of Uttar Pradesh submitted that the action plan to prevent the discharge of untreated sewage and industrial effluents in river Ganga is ready …
On April 29, the British High Commission donated Rs 13 lakh to non-governmental organisation (NGO) Sankat Mochan Foundation (SMF) to clean up a few ghats along Ganga river in Varanasi. Past experience in this holy city of Uttar Pradesh (UP), however, suggests that the money could end up going down …
Major lacunae have been detected in the functioning of the Ganga Action Plan (gap). The public accounts committee (pac) of parliament came down heavily on the government for diverting funds earmarked for the river conservation programme, and suggested a number of measures to achieve the desired objectives of the plan. …
After neglecting the north-east for years, Delhi now feels the need to initiate "developmental' activities in the region. There is good reason. Indo-Chinese ties are improving. Moreover, a sub-regional economic grouping
Motion and change are the sum total of a glacier's life. These massive ice-fields were for long considered a delightful compromise between the seasonal variations in snow level. However, the balance of nature has now melted into the past. Despite looking the picture of tranquillity while metamorphosing, glaciers are today …
On June 16, Prime Minister (pm) Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s exhortation to “implement the river conservation programme with a greater sense of urgency and commitment” was an allusive reference to the states’ tardiness and cursoriness in executing sanctioned projects. What he mentioned even more obliquely was that the plan itself needed …
The Indo-Gangetic plains are drained by several fan and interfan rivers fringing the margin of the outer Himalaya. These fan and interfan river systems are distinctly different from each other in terms of hydrology and sediment transport and generate typical alluvial architecture below the plains. The Siwalik sequences stretching all …
Excessive heat and little light is how I would describe discussions on 'privatisation' of water. Protagonists say this is the magic bullet that will deliver safe water for all. Antagonists insist the private sector is interested only in profit, not in public good. Their claim that "Ganga is being sold …
the Supreme Court (sc) has asked the Union government to consider linking the country's rivers within 10 years, advancing the government's own deadline. Earlier, the Union ministry of water resources had filed an affidavit stating that this project, which it claimed would control flood and drought conditions, would be completed …
a website www.cleanganga.com has been launched, which could go a long way in improving the water quality of the river. The site is hosted by Sankat Mochan Foundation (smf) members and clean-up leaders of Thames river in London. Considering that the Ganga water today has a fecal coliform count that …
following loud protests from various corners against closing of tunnels on the Bhagirathi river, the Tehri dam committee has recommended a comprehensive study to find out if the Ganga holds higher self-purification qualities. The study findings will be out soon. The committee members were unanimous that due to oxygen availability …
"sauns sabhi ko pyari hai, Ganga maiya ki sawari hai .' This is the constant chanting that follows every splash of water as fisherfolk in Patna nudge their boats along the banks of the Ganges. And the hymn simply denotes a truth: Gangetic dolphin is dear to all and it …
the Ganga Action Plan (gap) has proved to be a failure in West Bengal, with the river's pollution levels increasing drastically in the Kolkata metropolitan areas (kma), despite Rs 158 crores spent in 15 years. This and many other startling revelations are part of a recent audit report from the …
• Under phase II of GAP, Uluberia town generating 10.85 million litres per day (mld) sewage with biological oxygen demand level (BOD) of 43.07 milligrammes per litre (mg/l) was not included while Jangipur generating 0.37 mld sewage with BOD level of 34 mg/l was covered • Between Palta (the source …
Once again the Tehri dam is in the eye of a storm. Buckling under the pressure of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (vhp) supremo Ashok Singhal, the Union government has set up another committee to review the Tehri dam. vhp has made no bones in opposing the dam, saying that it would …
showing its deep concern over the rampant killing of the Gangetic dolphins Platanista gangetica by fisherfolk, the Patna high court, comprising Chief justice Ravi S Dhavan and justice Shiv Kirti Singh, indicted the district magistrates and superintendents of police of nine districts of Bihar and environment and forests department of …
The Union government has decided to implement schemes similar to the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) for 23 new rivers in 10 states, proving that it has learnt little from the poor implementation of the river cleaning programmes launched in the past (see
ddt (dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane) content in fish stocks from Ganga is 16,000 times more than the permissible limit. This was revealed during a study conducted by R K Sinha, a senior investigator of the Ganga pollution-monitoring project. The Patna University, Bihar, is coordinating the project. "I found that the fish contained …
the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (cag) has criticised the Union ministry for environment and forests (mef) for its poor implementation of the Ganga Action Plan (gap). A recent audit review of gap reveals that the plan has met only 39 per cent of its primary sewage treatment target. …
The environment bench of the chief justice has directed the West Bengal Pollution Control Board to serve notice on well-known environmentalist, M C Mehta. The notice would include information that his application relating to the Ganga Action Plan would be taken up on 8 September, 2000. The Pollution Control Board …
