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Ganga's ecological flow needs to be monitored according to seasons: Uma Bharti

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Working on the Clean India mission, Union Water Resource Minister Uma Bharti has discussed a plan of action with officials of her department with regard to cleaning the heavily polluted parts of the 2,525-kilometer-long River Ganga.

Bharti said that the first and foremost thing that needs to be addressed is the ecological flow of the water, which needs to be monitored according to the change in seasons.

"The free flow of water, wherein, ecological flow needs to be done, that how much water should flow in a river that is based on the river, the place and according to the season and for that the dam that has been advised to be made, the dam that is being made and the dam that has already been made in that it has to be decided how we can decide on the e-flow," said Bharti.

Bharti was speaking to reporters after chairing a meeting in New Delhi on the issue of cleaning the Ganga, a campaign which is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious Clean India mission.

She said that medium and short instructions for the cleaning project will be implemented in the next 45 days. "Talking about the clean and free flow of water, we have already decided and within 45 days we will show you that we have already taken up projects that are based on short and medium term projects," she added.

The river, stretching from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, is full of industrial effluent and untreated sewage, and its banks are strewn with garbage.

Reportedly, the National Environmental Engineering and Research Institute (NEERI) is set to play a major role in the central government's ambitious Ganga River Rejuvenation Project.

The institute will conduct the river's water quality monitoring and sediment analysis study which will be taken as the foundation on the basis of which the Centre will formulate the final action plan to clean and conserve the iconic river.

Environmental experts have expressed cautious hope that a basin-wide approach advocated by Prime Minister Modi, involving India's northern states and neighbouring Nepal and Bangladesh, would help address issues like reduced melt water flows into the river caused by the progressive retreat of Himalayan glaciers.

 

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