4. Ganga is one of the most polluted rivers in India. Make a research on the available data on the action plan taken up by Govt. of India to save Ganga. Present a project including answers for the following.
a. Find out the causes and consequences of the pollution.
b. Collect details on Ganga Action Plan and comment on how it helped the cleaning up of ganga.
c. Frame up a decision statement from your point of view in cleaning the ganga and preventing further pollution.
d. What roadblocks do you expect in implementing your views into practice and suggest measures to overcome this roadblock?
e. Was there anything you considered but was not necessary in your discussions during your decision-making process? Explain.
f. How did your group, weigh the different consequences when making your decision statement?
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largest river in India, poses significant threats to human health and the larger environment.[1] Severely polluted with human waste and industrial contaminants, the river provides water to about 40% of India's population across 11 states,[2] serving an estimated population of 500 million people which is more than any other river in the world.[3][4]
Humans are cremated at Varanasi in Hindu tradition.
Today, the Ganges is considered to be the sixth-most polluted river in the world.[5][6] Raghubir Singh, an Indian photographer, has noted that no one in India spoke of the Ganges as polluted until the late 1970s. However, pollution has been an old and continuous process in the river as by the time people were finally speaking of the Ganges as polluted, stretches of over six hundred kilometres were essentially ecologically dead zones.[7]
A number of initiatives have been undertaken to clean the river but failed to deliver as desired results.[8] After getting elected, India's Prime minister Narendra Modi affirmed to work in cleaning the river and controlling pollution.[9] Subsequently, the Namami Gange project was announced by the government in the June 2014 budget.[10] An estimated Rs 2,958 Crores (US$460 million) have been spent until July 2016 in various efforts in cleaning up of the river.[11]