The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of M.C. Mehta Versus Union of India & Others dated 13/07/2017 regarding Ganga river pollution. NGT notes that GAP I and GAP II has failed to yield the required results and on the contrary there has been tremendous increase in the …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Sewage Treatment Plants Under GAP, 30/03/2017. Namami Gange aims to focus on pollution abatement interventions namely Interception, diversion & treatment of waste water flowing through the open drains through bio-remediation / appropriate in-situ treatment / use of innovative technologies / Sewage Treatment Plant (STPs) …
The Committee on Estimates present this Fifteenth Report on 'Ganga Rejuvenation'. The parliamentary panel expressed its concern over Ganga being listed among the 10 most polluted rivers in the world. Renowned hydrologists and experts on river dynamics and water management testified before the Committee that the Ganga bears no comparison …
Government officials in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency achieved a major success on Sunday when they convinced the farmers to call off their six months old stir after which the construction of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) funded project of 140 mld sewage treatment plant was restarted at Dinapur. …
The National Green Tribunal today blamed both the Centre and the states of passing the buck on cleaning of the river Ganga, as it convened a high-level meeting next week to discuss implementation of the first phase of Ganga Action Plan (GAP). "After deliberation, it is clear that we will …
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has reiterated the government’s intention to raise new Territorial Army battalions, comprising ex-soldiers and commanded by regular army officers, specifically for cleaning up the Ganga. This is a good move. TA battalions earmarked for ecological tasks have performed well in the past. Yet, given the sheer …
Minister for Drinking Water and Education Mantri Prasad Naithani called on Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti in New Delhi today. Naithani apprised her of tough geographical conditions and large-scale damage occurred in the state following the 2013 natural disaster. He said the state …
The much-touted Namami Gange project, which was allocated Rs 20,000 crore by the Union Government recently, will complete its first phase by October 2016 and on-ground Ganga rejuvenation work will begin. As per Ganga Rejuvenation-Water Resources Union Minister Uma Bharti, Clean Ganga drive will show its initial results by October …
`Namami Gange' To Create Jobs For Local People The government's efforts to clean and protect the Ganga on Wednesday got a big financial boost of Rs 20,000 crore which the Centre will spend to rejuvenate the national river in the next five years. The Union Cabinet, chaired by PM Narendra …
Wabag will be responsible for the design, engineering, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of the sewage treatment plant VA Tech Wabag has bagged a Rs 220-crore order to design and construct 140 million litres a day sewage treatment plant at Dinapur in Varanasi. The contract, which is part of the …
India’s leveraging strength in climate finance will be “weakened” globally after the central government’s failure to properly plan state-wise sharing of revenue generated from the coal cess–driven National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF), an expert said. According to Joyashree Roy, a member of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel …
Affidavit of the Joint Secretary to the Govt. of India and Mission Director, National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) in terms of the Supreme Court order dated 13/08/2014 in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others
West Bengal's best-known expert on rivers, Kalyan Rudra, 62, and Babu Bhai, a 32-year-old fisherman, have a common lament-hilsa, the fish that can tingle Bengali taste buds like nothing else on earth, has gone missing from the Ganga. The fisherman, who's plied his little boat from the rusty jetty at …
In India, nothing encapsulates the failure of governance more than the unforgivable abuse of the Ganga, its largest and most vital source of freshwater. It is no coincidence that Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose the great river to showcase his ability to turn an irretrievable situation around. His foray into …
One of the initial tasks in hand for the Modi government should be to restore the ecological flow of the Ganga, environmentalists say “Mujhe Ma Ganga ne bulaya hai (Mother Ganga has summoned me)” was a slogan that worked magic for the would-be prime minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi. A …
Statement of the Minister of Environment and Forests in response to Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 272 for 10 February 2014, asked by Shri Kristappa Nimmala and Shri Nama Nageswara Rao regarding progress made in regard to cleaning of Ganga river in the country under Ganga Action Plan Phase - …
Way back in 1986, Rajiv Gandhi launched the Ganga Action Plan. But years later, after much water (sewage) and money have flowed down the river, it is as bad as it could get. Why are we failing, and what needs to be done differently to clean this and many other …
The Environment ministry said it has approved the phase III of Yamuna Action Plan (YAP) for Delhi besides sanctioning two projects of pollution abatement for the river in Sonepat and Panipat in Haryana. "The YAP Phase III project for Delhi has been approved by the ministry at an estimated cost …
