‘Holy rivers’ has rather become a myth today. According to a report of the National
Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) all the fourteen big rivers of India
are badly polluted. They cover 85 percent of the surface flow of water in the country.
Write an article on the pollution of rivers in about 125-150 words.
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The CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI) is a research institute created and funded by Government of India. It was established in Nagpur in 1958 with focus on water supply, sewage disposal, communicable diseases and to some extent on industrial pollution and occupational diseases found common in post-independent India. NEERI is a pioneer laboratory in the field of environmental science and engineering and part of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). NEERI has five zonal laboratories at Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai. NEERI falls under the Ministry of Science and Technology (India) of the central government.[3] The NEERI is an important partner organisation in India's POPs national implementation plan (NIP).