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Clean Ganga mission: Blueprint in works to implement Internet of things devices to check pollution

Even as Nitin Gadkari took charge as the Water Resources Minister replacing Uma Bharti, most of the work in Clean Ganga initiative remains shelved.

September 26, 2017 / 11:36 IST
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A non-profit engineering institution has created a blueprint to implement internet of things devices which will help check and tabulate data on the pollution levels of Ganga river.

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Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) has created the blueprint in association with their IoT panel to curb pollution and improve water level.

Vivek Mehrotra, chairman of IET India IoT Panel’s Ganga Rejuvenation told the Economic Times that Ganga has been neglected to a great extent. It is majorly over-exploited as with local industries releasing toxic chemical waste into the river basin along with sewage from households. There are laws in place to check pollution but most of these industries are unregulated in terms of the chemicals released into the river. Then you have human and industrial waste along with excessive fertilisers which are not used by farmers, which is released into Ganga.”