River Ganga

Recycling flowers: One man's mission to clean up the sacred Ganga river

Agarwal’s team, most of whom are women, pluck out the discarded flowers near the river bank and gather them from temples to repurpose them into paper and incense - as well as water colours that can be used for the Hindu festival of Holi.

NGT asks MoEF for report on whether clearance needed for inland waterway projects in Ganga

A bench headed by NGT Chairperson justice A K Goel noted that the report of the expert committee constituted by the MoEF has not been filed even though almost one year has lapsed.

Water quality of Ganga, four other major rivers deteriorated during COVID lockdown: CPCB

According to the report, river water samples from 387 monitoring locations were collected during the pre-lockdown period and 77.26 percent of them complied with the primary water quality criteria for outdoor bathing.

Govt issues notification for minimum environmental flow for Ganga

Environmental flows are the acceptable flow regimes that are required to maintain a river in the desired environmental state or predetermined state.

Govt nod to Rs 1,948 cr bridge over Ganga

The Ministry of Road and Highways said that the project will generate direct employment during construction for about 9.20 lakh mandays.

Public money wasted, not a drop of Ganga cleaned: NGT

The tribunal asked the government agencies about how they were executing the Prime Minister's ambitious 'Namami Gange project' and said it does not want the "drama" regarding complaints between the Centre and Uttar Pradesh to go on

Intel working with govt on pilot for Clean Ganga initiative

"Under the pilot, we are using sensors to collect data, which will be then fed to a common centre to derive useful information. The pilot has just started and will go on till middle of next year," Intel President India Kumud Srinivasan told reporters here.