cleaning and rejuvenating of river Ganga
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The present government has launched a Namami Gange campaign with an overall budget of Rs. 20,000 crore to clean Ganges, which is one of the 10 most polluted rivers in the entire world.
Sewage management plants are not operating due to lack of manpower.
The growing needs of close to 450 hydroelectric projects are the biggest challenges to purification of river Ganga.
Tunneling and mining activities near the Himalayan glaciers is damaging the ecological..
The river which was once considered as rich in life supporting maters is now considered as rich in pathogenic bacteria.
River Ganga has been declared as biological disaster even though the Indian government is working with an action plan to rejuvenate Ganga River.
A recent study has claimed that the people who are living along the banks of the River Gange are more prone to get cancer. Some of the places the study highlighted are Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Bengal.