NAMAMI GANGA

Ganga River, a holy river of India. It is the lifeline of lakhs peoples of our country. Mny cities are established on its bank like Haridwar, Allahabad, Varansi (Banaras) etc. A large part of peoples living in these cities depend on River Ganga for their livelihood but as the development activities increased peoples start neglecting cleaning and recycling activities and dump waste in the Holy River. The Ganga also known as mother river for hindu’s in last few decades is dying. Government planned to clean Ganga but like other government project it also fails although a big amoung of taxpayers money wasted. Our new Prime Minister Mr. Narender Modi since the start of his election campaign discussing about the cleaning of River Ganga and even two-three times lead the activity by himself on the ghat’s of Ganga. In budget 2037 crores rupees are planned to be spent for cleaning river Ganga and the project name is Namami Ganga. Responsibility of the work is given to Minister Smt. Uma Bharti who is having a very big and good network among the Hindu spiritual leaders of India. The role of spiritual leaders is very important as their words are treated as a rule by their followers. The awareness spread by these leaders will make great impact in the peoples. In one of her statement Minister said that they will clear solid waste which stops flow of river and increase pollution of river by getting jammed in the path of water flow and many more steps will be taken to clear and stop polluting the Holy River Ganga.

I WISH BEST OF LUCK AND REQUEST EVERYBODY TO MAKE HIS/HER CONTRIBUTION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO CLEAR OUR MOTHER RIVER GANGA.

DAM Scandal

As per the story on the Hindustantimes.com a new scandal of dams has been added to existing long list of scandals. The current one is in Uttarakhand where many hydroelectric power projects (HEP) have been sanctioned. Number of Dams will be constructed on Bhagirathi, Alaknanda and Ganga for these HEP projects and these dams will kill the lifeline of Nation our famous River GANGA.

The above mentioned HEP projects will kill the lifeline of Nation river 'Ganga' famous for its religious attachment with peoples of India. Ganga is also very important source of water for big chunk of agricultural land in India and source of water supply for many states. As per the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) reports HEPS projects has been given to the companies who don't have any previous experience of building HEPs and the projects has been distributed in a way that it causes major revenue losses to the government. Also many big questions marks has been raised from environmental point of view for these projects.

Project developers has been favored by permitting them to divert the 90 per cent water of the river to the turbines which leaves only 10 percent for natural flow and in long term will lead to drying of river. The international standard for diversion of river water is maximum 75 percent. Already India has lost one of its famous river Saraswati and another river Yamuna is going through critical stages.

Hindustantimes also reported that government removed its power advisor and Chairman of its Jal Vidyut Nigam, Yogendra Pasadena so that he do not become a obstacle in “irregularities being done by the government”.

The biggest question is how the state and central government has passed all these projects and why the both levels of government did not think that leaving only 10 percent of natural flow in river will affect the agricultural crops and still a big slice of Indian population is dependent on agriculture. We all knows that agricultural production is a major factor in GDP of nation.

WE MUST SAVE OUR NATURAL RESOURCES TO SAVE OUR PLANET. WE ARE ALREADY FACING PROBLEM OF GLOBAL WARMING AND SCARCITY OF WATER.

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