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 …
The West Bengal Government has devised a multi-pronged strategy to curb the growing environmental degradation including development of appropriate technology to curb industrial and other pollution and introduction of environment guards. The Environment Minister, Mr Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar, said a committee has been set up to suggest ways to tackle …
Pollution is passe. Millions of Kumbh pilgrims bathing in the Ganga did not know they were taking a plunge right in the filth of untreated sewage. A CAG report reveals the shocking saga of the Uttarakhand government's callous mismanagement.
The Indian government has signed a $1 billion loan with multilateral lending agency, the World Bank, to help support the cleaning of the Ganga river. A National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) has been set up under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with chief ministers of the five states through which …
The Government of India (GoI) has established the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) for comprehensive management of the river. The NGRBA program will adopt a river-basin approach and has been given a multi-sectoral mandate to address both water quantity and quality aspects. The NGRBA has resolved that by year …
Acknowledging that the two-phased Ganga Action, which started in 1985, has failed to have the desired effect in checking river pollution, the Centre has informed the Supreme Court that the National Ganga River Basin Authority, headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, recently decided that by 2020 no untreated municipal sewage …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has been implementing an ambitious programme of pollution abatement of rivers in India. It started in 1985 with the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) and gradually extended to other polluted rivers through National River Conservation Plan (NRCP). The current programmes covered under NRCP include …
Few will take very seriously the undertaking given by the government in the Supreme Court that River Ganga will be pure and free of pollution by 2020. Similar commitments were made to the public 25 years ago when, in 1985, the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) to clean this most treasured …
The West Bengal government will receive Rs 539 crore from the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) for cleaning up the Ganga river basin. An additional Rs 800 crore worth of proposals have also been sent to the authority for clearance. Giving this information here on Tuesday, the State Urban …
The pollution load on rivers has increased over the years due to rapid urbanisation and industrialization. Domestic sewage is the major source of pollution of rivers besides industrial and other non-point sources of pollution. Abstraction of water for irrigation, drinking, industrial use, power etc. compounds the challenge. Based on the …
IITs have been roped in to clean the Ganga Twenty-five years after launching the Ganga Action Plan (GAP), the government has realised that a new plan backed by proper technical advice is needed to clean this mighty river, which is fast turning into a drain. A consortium of seven Indian …
NEW DELHI, 10 JUNE: The government today approved a proposal for carrying out the second phase of Ganga Action Plan worth Rs 496.90 crore with Japanese assistance at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. The proposal by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will be under the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) …
The government needs to focus on ensuring perennial environmental flow in the Ganga river instead of just setting up huge sewage and industrial effluent treatment plants which have failed to cleanse the river, a Parliamentary panel has said. The panel, headed by MP T Subbarami Reddy, which submitted its report …
Keeping in mind the growing environment crisis being faced across the subcontinent, Vinod Rai, Comptroller and Auditor General of India, has taken the initiative to undertake an environment audit on the country's critical natural resources. Involving water experts from Bhutan, Bangla Desh, Thailand, Maldives, Austria and other nations, Mr Rai …
YOJNA GUSAI NEW DELHI A committee head- ed by former party chief Rajnath Singh will come with an action plan to clean the Ganga : Taking a cue from RSS, the BJP announced it's decision to launch a mas- sive campaign to clean the Ganga, the sacred river of the …
A group of activists led by Magsaysay award winner Rajendra Singh met Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today and demanded that the government should do more for the effective implementation of the New Ganga and Yamuna Action Plans. The All Ganga Yamuna Panchayat presented a charter of demands to the …
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI The ministry of forests & environment (MFE) has launched a massive National River Conservation Plan (NRCP) to revitalise 38 key Indian rivers. Extensive plans for the cleaning and rejuvenation of each of these rivers flowing past 167 towns have been drawn out. The NRCP will address …
PARUL CHANDRA It was a telling remark on how the Ganga remains polluted despite the crores that have been poured into projects to ensure it remains clean. As Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, "The Ganga is not as clean as it should have been. …
